With offices worldwide, ‘connection’ became the touchstone of BGC Engineering’s new Vancouver office. To accommodate their 270 employees, the office spans four floors of an office tower downtown. A central interconnected staircase brings together the staff across all floors and creates an openness and hub for spontaneous interaction. As a mining engineering company, the earth brings inspiration to the offices’ finishes though the concept of sedimentation. Each floor has it’s own earthy colour palette for materials gradating from light to dark. The final design is timeless, inspiring and yet practical.