How many offices can boast a 15-foot spinning Jumbotron, an entire room devoted to playing golf, a bat pole for riding between floors, a hidden kitchen for creative break times? We can think of at least one! From football fields to double-decker buses, these are the offices we’d love to work in — for at least one day.
 DBSI Inc. Location: 6950 W. Morelos Pl., Chandler, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: DBSI, Inc. About: DBSI Inc. works with financial institutions to re-brand and transform their branch locations. THE HIGHLIGHTS: With its high ceiling and open spaces, DBSI’s headquarters leaves plenty of room to promote creativity and fun at every corner. Some of DBSI’s office highlights include a room called the Ideation Center with a 15-foot TV “Wow Wall” that screens movies and broadcasts sports games while doubling as a secret door to a Collaboratory (aka a “test kitchen”), a golf simulator room and bat pole between floors for a rush of energy before employees return to work. |
 DIRTT Environmental Solutions Location: 836 E. University Dr., Phoenix Architecture/Design Firm: Phoenix Design One About: DIRTT, short for Doing It Right This Time, is a company that creates customizable architectural interiors with tailored prefab for flexible building designs. THE HIGHLIGHTS: There’s no such thing as a corner office at DIRTT’s factory environment. Not even the executive has a private office. Instead, people sit in the “Fish Bowl” in the heart of the DIRTT factory. Bordered on all sides with a Breathe Wall, employees gets to enjoy the greenery of live plants in addition to daylighting from skylights. Breakfast, lunch and breaks are catered by two full-time chefs in a cafeteria also used for presentations and networking events. |
 DPR Construction Phoenix Regional Office Location: 222 N. 44th St., Phoenix Architecture/Design Firm: SmithGroupJJR About: DPR Construction is a national technical builder that specializes in sustainable projects. THE HIGHLIGHTS: SmithGroupJJR turned a 28-year-old, 16,500 SF retail building into the first commercial office in Arizona (and second in the country) to achieve a Net-Zero Energy Building certification. The open-office environment has 58 work stations, nine conference rooms, a gym and locker facility and a zen room for quiet retreat. A Lucid Building Dashboard system shares building energy and utility usage in real time and has a “Vampire Switch” that, when pressed, turns off phantom plug-loads at the end of the day. |
 FITCH Phoenix Studio Location: 16435 N. Scottsdale Rd., Ste. 195, Scottsdale, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: FITCH About: FITCH is a global design consultancy founded in 1972 in the UK. THE HIGHLIGHTS: The FITCH studio, nestled in the Scottsdale Promenade, a shopping center that offers a unique architectural setting inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. What makes the LEED Silver office unique, inspiring and innovative is the group’s namesake. FITCH has a 1962 Route Master bright red double-decker London bus in its lobby. The bus was purchased in Los Angeles, dropped the engine and was completely restored by FITCH staff. The labor of love was completed with a fully functioning conference space on the lower portion and a lounge complete with television on the upper portion of the bus. It even hosts an annual British American Parliamentary Group meeting. |
 Godaddy Location: ASU Research Park, Tempe, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: Patrick Hayes Architecture, SmithGroupJJR (Interior) About: GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company. THE HIGHLIGHTS: The GoDaddy project is full of unique and quirky design features. It has an indoor go-kart/bicycle track; a slide that goes from the second to first floor (and is rumored to be six-degrees steeper than Google’s slide); several game areas for employees to refocus; a yoga studio and fitness center; it has an innovative workspace layout with meandering walkways and wide open spaces; the break room features 12’ x 30’ glass doors that open up allowing the inside and outside spaces to flow; site amenities include a soccer field, several multi-purpose sport courts (including a shaded basketball court) and electric vehicle charging stations. |
 Habitat for Humanity Location: 3501 N. Mountain Ave., Tucson, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: DKP Architecture About: An international, non-governmental and nonprofit organization dedicated to building homes that are affordable and address the issues of poverty housing. THE HIGHLIGHTS: “Habitat for Humanity is a functional, pragmatic organization and its new Tucson office captures the same spirit,” writes Sundt Construction’s Kurt Wadlington. A repurposed 1940s grocery store, the working environment was created for Habitat’s employees, volunteers and community and with a design emphasis on collaboration. The office’s signature element is its “House with the House.” This freestanding indoor pitched roof structure greets visitors and provides a communal conference area. The office also includes a children play area and open office areas held below the roof structure to preserve the high volume bowstring wood trusses of the original structure. |
 InfusionSoft Location: 1260 S. Spectrum Blvd., Chandler, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: Balmer Architectural Group About: Infusionsoft is a private company that offers an e-mail marketing and sales platform for small businesses, including products to streamline the customer lifecycle, customer relationship management, marketing automation, lead capture, and e-commerce. THE HIGHLIGHTS: Infusionsoft’s headquarters, located in a 90KSF, two-story office building in the middle of Chandler’s tech hub, is anything but stuffy. The office is built around a 40-yard indoor football field that acts as a central gathering place for company-wide meetings, department chats and a place to throw around a Frisbee or football. With a design focus on company culture, Infusionsoft features a fully stocked cereal bar, massage chairs, a game room, gym and showers. One popular feature is in the auditorium, which has a removable wall made up of blocks that can be removed to connect the auditorium with the rest of the office space or placed to create intimacy and privacy. |
 Recruiting.com and Jobing.com Location: 1375 N. Scottsdale Rd., Ste. 300, Scottsdale, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: hayes/architecture interiors inc. About: Jobing.com is an employment website focusing on local recruiting in 18 U.S. cities. Recruiting.com offers companies software and technology that helps in the hiring process. THE HIGHLIGHTS: This office space was a consolidation of Jobing.com and Recruiting.com’s headquarters with the end goal of a functional, motivating work environment. Want to have a meeting from a ceiling-suspended collaborative workspace? Park it in one of the two floating benches known as “huddles,” where you can host clients, video conferences or collaborative sessions. From the interesting wallpaper to the entertaining lighting and the collection of PEZ machines, Jobing.com’s space was designed to be as varied and diverse as its employees. From environments that cater to working out, napping, collaborating or working independently, there’s a spot for every kind of work style. |
 Rose Law Group Location: 7144 E. Stetson Dr., Ste. 300, Scottsdale, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: Gensler About: A full-service business law firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz. THE HIGHLIGHTS: Rose Law Group is one of a handful of law firms embracing modern office design. After Rose Law purchased a space with two pre-existing suites, it engaged Gensler to design a cohesive floor. The two suites were brought together with a circulation loop, the center of which holds a “collaboration lab.” Gensler also worked to maximize the number of private offices along the perimeter of the building and accomplished this by increasing the number of offices from 8 to 28. Salvaged materials during the process were re-used for other areas of the project, such as flooring, shelving and reception millwork. |
 ViaSat Location: 2040 E. Technology Circle, Tempe, Ariz. Architecture/Design Firm: Gensler About: ViaSat is a global satellite technology company based in San Diego, Calif. It Tempe office will be used for operations. THE HIGHLIGHTS: Despite being designed around engagement, connection, familial culture and exterior amenities, ViaSat’s Tempe operations building will have a 95 percent closed office environment. The office, smaller than a standard space, is broken up into private work spaces with glass fronts. Every “team cluster” has a front porch, which is a collaborative space for individuals. The office has a large gathering space designed as a place for meetings and a connection to the basketball and sand volleyball courts as well as outdoor meeting spaces. |
