LinkedIn is a company built on connections. Their new Toronto office, which serves as a Canadian headquarters, is an environment of connections. One level evokes Toronto. For LinkedIn, it’s very important that each of their locations feel tied to the cities where they’re located. For the Toronto office that means looking at some of the iconic characters in Toronto’s urban fabric: The Junction, Distillery District, Allan Gardens Conservatory, Roy Thomson Hall and City Hall. These places inspire some of the shared spaces — lounges and cafes, meeting rooms and amenity spaces. Toronto’s parks —Yorkville, Trinity Bellwoods and St. James — help to knit the city’s neighborhoods together. Here too, they link the three floors together. A stair climbs around a tree-like sculpture through communal settings on each floor that use wood and biophilia to bring a feeling of nature into the workplace. The space is also about connecting LinkedIn’s people and supporting their wellness. While including a wide variety of more standard spaces to work and collaborate, like meeting rooms and lounges and cafes, LinkedIn also provides places for them to recharge and be creative, including a fitness center and music room with full recording studio. Everything within the space is connected to LinkedIn’s philosophy that they’re not successful unless their people are happy and thriving.
Work done while at CannonDesign in collaboration with Acrylicize.