This building’s break areas were at the heart of each floor, but were dormant, unused gathering spaces. In our first remote exercise at the start of the pandemic as a design/construction team, break areas were repurposed in this colorful refresh to pilot a design that encapsulates microkitchen, collaboration, and studio spaces all in one for this high touch UI/UX building. YouTube’s new branding was also extracted and thoughtfully assigned to each space typology to represent its vibrant, growing teams, breaking away from their typical blacks, whites, and reds of the past decades.