8 Laborde — Gide Loyrette Nouel

A showcase to change working practices

PCA-STREAM has restructured the Pépinière military barracks to create the new Gide-Loyrette-Nouel law firm headquarters. Designed as a sign of the firm's renewed way of working, it emphasizes teamwork and exchange, with a focus on horizontality, transparency and hospitality.

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Spacious floors, fluid circulation, and communal living areas encourage meetings, interaction and knowledge-sharing. A real paradigm shift for the legal profession, which relies on discretion and confidentiality.

The interior design reflects the core values embodied by the law firm: excellence, innovation and the French art of living. The project employs noble, unostentatious materials: Charmot stone, blue Buxy, marble and antique brass for the locks. From the institutional entrance to the communal areas, the gradation is towards increasingly welcoming spaces. Like a red thread, the sycamore cleat gives rhythm to the project.

8 Laborde — Gide Loyrette Nouel

A showcase to change working practices

PCA-STREAM has restructured the Pépinière military barracks to create the new Gide-Loyrette-Nouel law firm headquarters. Designed as a sign of the firm's renewed way of working, it emphasizes teamwork and exchange, with a focus on horizontality, transparency and hospitality.

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Spacious floors, fluid circulation, and communal living areas encourage meetings, interaction and knowledge-sharing. A real paradigm shift for the legal profession, which relies on discretion and confidentiality.

The interior design reflects the core values embodied by the law firm: excellence, innovation and the French art of living. The project employs noble, unostentatious materials: Charmot stone, blue Buxy, marble and antique brass for the locks. From the institutional entrance to the communal areas, the gradation is towards increasingly welcoming spaces. Like a red thread, the sycamore cleat gives rhythm to the project.

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Embodying the French arts of living

Resulting from the close collaboration between Gide and PCA-STREAM, the interior architecture is founded upon the major values embodied by the law firm: excellence, innovation and the French art of living.

The project, therefore, uses materials that are noble without being ostentatious: Charmot, blue Buxy limestone, and marble, with antique brass for the metalwork. Like a red thread, the sycomore bracket provides the project with rhythm.

The common areas reuse the aesthetic codes of the home and the hospitality industry, with the addition of elegant curtains and the tailor-made choices of decorative objects and hanging lights. The new central “NoPa” pavilion opens onto a double-height hallway with a cosy design. The restaurant, the working café and the library constitute welcoming coworking spaces. On every floor, the terraces and contemporary lounges form convivial islands between offices.

An essential component of the project for Gide, the spaces dedicated to welcoming clients are located in the historic and most noble wing, flanking the street. The wing includes approximately twenty meeting rooms, elegant, comfortable and equipped with the latest technology, as well as small salons, open but discreet, mingling with digital artwork.

  • Client

    Gide Loyrette Nouel

  • Location

    15 rue de Laborde, 75008 Paris

  • Status

    Delivered