This 360,000-square-foot office is complete with ?neighborhoods? and ?storefronts? that encourage connection, collaboration, and employee wellness.

This month, Intuit celebrated the opening of its new Atlanta, Georgia office, a 360,000-square-foot innovation hub that is also now home to Mailchimp, the popular email and marketing platform that the company acquired in 2021. The modern office was an extensive, collaborative effort between local design firm TVS, Studio O+A in San Francisco, Mailchimp?s in-house creative agency Wink, and Intuit?s People & Places organization to create a world-class space that fully supports hybrid work in thoughtful ways while inspiring creativity and innovation.
The office was designed around the concept of a city, which is filled with diverse neighborhoods that all represent one unified entity. But like any visitor to a new city, we need a knowledgable tour guide to (virtually!) walk us through the space and give us a lay of the land, which is why we?re excited to have Christian Widlic, Group Creative Director at Wink, here for a chat. Christian shares more behind the makings of Intuit’s “cityscape,” the building’s current progress towards LEEDÂź Gold Certification, and how companies can help its employees do the best work (spoiler alert: it’s not pizza parties).
Can you elaborate on the process of designing the office to mimic a city with different neighborhoods" What were the different team ne...