The agency’s architects and designers built their new Manufacture in the only historic hall conserved in The Docks, an early twentieth century locomotives factory. They found the right balance between the powerful and monumental nature of the structure and an inspiring « think tank », thanks to the quality of thekç plan, the light, the volumes, the frame, insulation and acoustics. Around the generous Tropical Garden, its thirty exotic plants and its bivouac tent inspired by Saguez’s projects in Brazil, the first floor is fit to welcome the visitors and for employees’ well-being : tea-room, cloakroom, exhibition place, two lounges, six different sizes and furnished meeting rooms, two gym rooms and a canteen where are served home-cooked lunches. The Saguez Workstyle® team, specialized in workplace design, made their new heaquaters its preferred playground. The spaces are modular : a gym room becomes an off beat brainstorming room with ottoman seating. Specific places inside and outside are set aside for moments of hyper-connectivity, meetings, tests, conference calls or concentration, prototyping like in the material library. Workstations are positioned along large open desks on two floors which stimulate sharing, fluidity, mobility and creativity. Two big terraces offer different places to work, meet or breathe.