Quarles & Brady wanted a workplace that felt completely new and contemporary, but without the cost profile typically associated with a ground-up law firm build-out.
The opportunity was significant: the existing floors already contained substantial usable infrastructure and improvements. The challenge was programming the new workplace around those conditions without allowing the previous layout to dictate the employee experience.
The project required:
The challenge was making strategic reuse invisible in the finished workplace.
Quarles & Brady delivered a large, state-of-the-art law office that reads as an entirely new workplace despite incorporating substantial elements of the prior build-out.
Strategic planning and disciplined reuse allowed the team to deliver the quality expected of a major law firm headquarters at a materially lower cost than a conventional full rebuild.
The result was a modern workplace where cost efficiency came from smarter planning—not reduced quality.
