Slack HQ by Studio O+A

When Slack, the provider of the popular cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration software tools and online services, moved into its new headquarters last year, it stepped into a journey along the Pacific Crest Trail. The stunning new offices, located in San Francisco occupy 300,000, square feet across 10 floors in a new build. Slack HQ is a direct reflection of guidance from Slack’s CEO Stewart Butterfield, an avid outdoorsman and hiker who goes “off grid every year and recharges in the various types of wilderness – desert, mountains, forest – that make up the Pacific Crest Trail.” From the Slack project notes: “Because that trail forms a bridge between two of Slack’s offices in Vancouver and San Francisco it seemed a thematic link too rich to pass up. O+A’s concept was to create a floor-by floor evocation of those landscapes – in effect to turn a trip up the …