MUSEUM MEETS WORKPLACE

Studio IV Designs transforms EY's Gurugram headquarters into a museum-like workplace where contemporary Indian art, craft, and architecture intersect with global corporate identity

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In Gurugram’s thriving IT hub, EY’s new 85,000 sq.ft. office emerges as a study in monumentality and restraint. Designed by Studio IV Designs, the executive and social spaces are imagined less as a conventional workplace and more as a museum—where art, craft, and architecture converge to narrate a story of global stature rooted in Indian identity. A tonal yet textured palette creates clarity and calm, offering a refined backdrop for contemporary artworks and cultural interventions. The result is an environment that reflects EY’s brand values of precision, progress, and inclusivity, while inspiring focus, dialogue, and discovery.

The brief

Given, EY is one of the four largest professional services consulting firms in the world, with a presence in over 700 locations, the organisation is constantly striving towards building a better working world and offer services across diverse sectors, including technology.

As EY decided to open its first independently-owned office in Gurugram, a major IT hub in India, it commissioned Studio IV Designs to design 85,000 sq. ft. of its executive and social areas. These are spread across the ground, first, and eighth floors, as well as a six-storey atrium, within the 13-storey building.

The brief was threefold: to serve global and regional teams and clients, embody a modern yet timeless Indian aesthetic, and create a space that reflects EY’s capabilities to its clients and teams.