Marriott’s new HQ is designed to feel like one of its hotels

Dec 7 2022 by Fast Company

‘It seems more like a hotel lobby than an office building.’

For a company focused primarily on creating welcoming buildings in appealing places, hotel giant Marriott’s corporate headquarters was about as off-brand as possible. The six-story, 1 million-square-foot behemoth was a bland officescape plopped in the office-park suburbs of Bethesda, Maryland—an unwelcoming building in an unappealing place. “It was, quite candidly, a building at the end of its life,” says Stephanie...

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