Nutrien River Landing
Where nature nurtures innovation, collaboration, and well-being. Nurtrien aspired to create a workplace as forward-thinking as their agricultural technology when operations moved to the top nine floors of Nutrien River Landing Tower. An extensive pre-design phase including vision sessions, employee engagement sessions, interviews, focus groups, and a comprehensive office-wide survey informed the project’s three guiding principles: human connection, sustainability, and user experience.
Embracing a unique identity, each floor of the stack expresses brand colours and a stage of the “from mine, to farm, to you” journey that is central to Nutrien’s branding narrative. The new flexible and inclusive workplace supports diverse needs of employees and provides choice between open, collaborative neighbourhoods, communal work lounges, and individual workpoints. Infrastructure and technology are integrated into the space to accommodate the needs of a distributed workforce. Together, these spaces create an environment that nurtures social collaboration, supports individual growth, and encourages physical and mental wellness.
Nutrien River Landing is a workplace that balances programmatic project requirements with human and building health. The decision to select a LEED certified building, and raising the bar to achieve LEED Platinum in Interior Design + Construction: Commercial Interior, demonstrates our client’s commitment to environmental design. Nutrien is the first office in Saskatchewan to be awarded this distinction, and is one of only four projects in all of Canada to receive platinum certification in this category.
The project’s efficacy in supporting human health and inclusion in the workplace (as evidenced by its Rick Hansen Accessibility Certification and Two-Star Fitwel Certification designations) goes above and beyond building code requirements.
Features include braille on meeting room doors and textile strips situated on the floor, as well as employee-engaging wellness amenities like tech-free zones, a wellness studio and gym, a reflection room for prayer or meditation, gender-neutral washrooms, and a smudging room that recognizes the Indigenous people of the surrounding lands and the history of the River Landing site.
Peter Templeton, President & CEO, USGBC
Nutrien’s commitment to “feeding the future” informs the connection-focused design solution. The program dedicates prime real estate on each floor to connection and collaboration spaces. The colour palette and theme of each level is informed by Nutrien’s purpose of “[growing] our world from the ground up.” Each storey captures a key stage of this process: the mines, natural elements, fields, technology, transportation, farms, and the tables where everyone gathers to dine and connect.
In addition to linking their workplace to brand and purpose, Nutrien’s office also connects visitors to the land and the people of Saskatchewan. The office is layered with Canadian and Indigenous artworks that capture both the historic and the contemporary values of the organization. Designing a workplace that welcomes employees, executives, clients, farmers, and community members was central to the success of this project.
