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In 2015, EQ Office, a realty company owned by Blackstone, bought the property and hired Gensler, in collaboration with SKB Architects and OLIN, to inject life into the tower and weave it into the urban fabric. To accommodate this ambitious program, the architects renovated three floors below grade and added three new levels primarily south and west of the tower, topped by a publicly accessible 30,000-square-foot roof garden. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,041 FUTURE OF THE WORKPLACE LURING OFFICE workers back to downtown high-rises after more than two years of working from home during the Covid pandemic can be challenging. [Extracted from the article]