Law Firm Office
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Completed
2025
Size
80,000 SF
Owners
Confidential
Architect
Perkins Eastman
Photographer
© Andrew Rugge/Perkins Eastman
Design Team
This contemporary law firm office fit-out breaks from traditional design approaches by emphasizing openness and connection. Spread across four floors, the practice areas include private offices, workstation neighborhoods, conference rooms, support spaces, and centralized amenities such as lounges, pantries, and a library, while a ground-floor conference center features a reception area and combinable multipurpose rooms. Lighting plays a key role in the experience and functionality throughout.
In the reception area, an array of decorative pendants gracefully undulates through the room and serves as a main visual feature. Other lighting layers include low-brightness linear fixtures for comfortable general illumination, cove lighting to emphasize the intersections of different masses and materials, and art lighting to accent select works. In the practice areas, glazing on corridor-facing walls allows daylight to penetrate into workstation neighborhoods, while cove lighting bathes exposed corridor ceilings with soft light and integrated slot details provide vertical illumination on accent finishes.
In private offices, recessed planes of diffuse light provide ample illumination while managing fixture brightness, and backlit stretched fabric planes in conference rooms create a soft ambiance paired with downlighting for flexibility. A pendant track system runs through core circulation and lounge areas, providing direct and indirect illumination, supplemented by decorative pendants, integrated cove, shelf, and wall lighting details. Embracing lighter finishes, ample use of glass, exposed ceilings, and multiple layers of visually comfortable illumination, the design creates a bright environment that reveals architectural forms and materials while serving the firm for decades.









