The outside of the principle entrance of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor is swapping its Fifties “Glass Home” headquarters for a brand new, trendy industrial facility to advertise collaboration and higher appease hundreds of staff who’ve returned to places of work in recent times after distant working.
The brand new 2.1-million-square-foot facility in Dearborn, Michigan, is ceremoniously opening Sunday, though development is predicted to proceed into 2027.
It replaces a 12-story, rectangular-shaped headquarters roughly three miles away within the metropolis that’s anticipated to be demolished. The brand new constructing marks Ford’s sixth headquarters since its founding in 1903.
Presently nicknamed “The Hub,” the brand new headquarters will consolidate hundreds of staff and a number of other prior places underneath one — albeit very massive — roof. It’s ultimately anticipated to be residence to as much as 4,000 executives and staff concerned with each day enterprise operations, design and product growth.
Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, will operate as company places of work in addition to a design and product growth heart.
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From an operational foundation, the brand new headquarters is roughly break up evenly between workplace features and design and industrial operations. Design consists of huge studios with hidden courtyards and a big showroom. The opposite half is ready for use for basic enterprise operations corresponding to govt places of work and customary work and assembly areas.
There are only a few precise places of work outdoors of these for high executives, in keeping with the corporate. The thought is for workers to have the ability to work as they select in several areas, or “neighborhoods,” relying on what they’re engaged on that day, officers mentioned. Area staking, the place staff try to make an area their everlasting office, will probably be discouraged, mentioned Jennifer Kolstad, international design and model director for Ford Land, the automaker’s property administration group.
“It isn’t only a constructing. It is a area that may be a software for our staff to be extra productive, to be extra collaborative, and actually assist ship the Ford+ plan,” mentioned Jim Dobleske, Ford Land chair and CEO, throughout a tour of the constructing.
The Ford+ plan was launched by CEO Jim Farley as a turnaround and effectivity plan for the automaker in 2021.
A espresso bar in Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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As of the tip of final 12 months, Ford employed roughly 30,500 white-collar salaried staff within the U.S. The corporate continues to personal or make the most of different properties all through the U.S., together with massive bases in Dearborn and surrounding areas.
Many salaried staff are anticipated in places of work no less than 4 days every week, as of earlier this 12 months, after a lot of them had a extra free hybrid office-home schedule following the tip of the pandemic.
“We’re inviting them again into an area that may be a software to assist them do their finest work. And that finest work tends to come back with collaboration with different groups,” Dobleske mentioned.
Scratch kitchens
A few of that collaboration is predicted to happen over meals.
The brand new headquarters features a 160,000-square-foot eating space with eight “kitchen ideas” that can function rotating menus in addition to take-home choices corresponding to pizza and $6 entire rotisserie chickens, decadent desserts and a juice bar full with a herb backyard.
A employee takes out a batch of rotisserie chickens inside Ford Motor’s new world headquarters on Nov. 10, 2025, in Dearborn, Michigan.
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“We’ve friends coming in from everywhere in the world, so we wished to verify we’ve designed our menus to sort of play homage to that range,” mentioned Grant Vella, govt chef for the brand new ]headquarters. “We wished to do one thing completely different, push the boundary of enterprise eating.”
Outdoors of the kitchens and eating areas, vegetation and out of doors areas are supposed to make for a extra walkable-friendly campus in contrast with the automaker’s prior, largely street- and parking lot-locked facility.
“This headquarters is the cornerstone of our campus redevelopment, however there’s been an amazing quantity of labor that we’ve executed all through the campus to essentially join it and make it rather more walkable for our staff,” Dobleske mentioned, pointing to a number of amenities and areas, together with a take a look at observe and 18-acre “Horsepower Park,” surrounding the constructing.
An herb backyard contained in the eating and kitchen space of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters on Nov. 10, 2025 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Contained in the constructing are six courtyards, together with a dual-level one on the heart of the corporate’s new design studios to permit designers to take merchandise outdoors to view them open air in pure mild. These design courtyards are unique areas that may solely be considered by the encompassing, non-public studios.
A lot of the four-story constructing options outdoors pure mild from the outside glass partitions in addition to skylights and different windowed areas.
Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, which can operate as company places of work in addition to a design and product growth heart.
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Hidden designs
Along with making a extra walkable exterior campus, Ford needs staff to make use of purposefully designed stairs slightly than elevators and escalators which are the first modes of transportation in its most-recent 12-story headquarters.
Craig Dykers, founding companion of Norwegian architectural agency Snøhetta that labored on the constructing, mentioned every staircase within the constructing, particularly in its 14 completely different arrival areas, are distinguished and meant to be inviting to make use of.
“Clearly folks do not naturally need to climb a stair, so it’s important to design it very rigorously so that individuals be ok with utilizing the stair,” he mentioned. “A part of the trick is that as you go up one flight, you do not essentially see the subsequent flight, so it is sort of a journey.”
Stairs inside the principle foyer of the constructing are extraordinarily huge and have seating areas alongside the precise low-rise stairs. There’s additionally a espresso bar on a big touchdown above the principle foyer.
Ford Bronco elements painted white within the American Street Foyer of the automaker’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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The espresso bar overlooks a white art work that options car elements — one in all many distinguished items of artwork Ford bought or has curated for the brand new facility. Others are images or drawings of autos, whereas some are merely non-automotive inventive items.
Inside the corporate’s design operations are massive studios with superior clay milling machines, a spacious showroom that can function as a contemporary design dome and a 64-foot display screen exhibiting digital critiques and testing.
What staff won’t see a lot of is the corporate’s emblem, the well-known blue oval surrounding the “Ford” identify. There will probably be an enormous Ford blue oval emblem on the skin of the constructing however not on its inside. Until you look intently.
On some exterior glass partitions, corresponding to the corporate’s design operations, there is a glass sample that options the ovals accompanied by hidden numbers that characterize Ford patents.
Ford’s signature blue oval design may be seen in glass on the skin of its new world headquarters, along with numbers representing patents held by the corporate.
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Ford declined to debate the capital spent to construct its new headquarters and design heart, which was a part of a beforehand introduced $1 billion campus transformation that started underneath former CEO Jim Hackett, who beforehand led furnishings firm Steelcase.
This is a glance inside the brand new world headquarters:
Employees put together to boost a big Ford Motor blue oval onto the corporate’s new headquarters on Nov. 10, 2025 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Art work made of auto elements hangs in the principle foyer of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Ford is making an attempt to make coming into the workplace extra engaging with scratch kitchens, extra out of doors area and locations to collaborate at its new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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A collaborative work area inside Ford Motor’s new headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Ford’s new headquarters features a 160,000-square-foot eating space with eight “kitchen ideas” that can function rotating menus in addition to take-home choices corresponding to pizza and $6 entire rotisserie chickens, decadent desserts and a juice bar full with a herb backyard.
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Ford’s new headquarters features a 160,000-square-foot eating space with eight “kitchen ideas” that can function rotating menus in addition to take-home choices corresponding to pizza and $6 entire rotisserie chickens, decadent desserts and a juice bar full with a herb backyard.
Michael Wayland / CNBC
Ford’s new headquarters features a 160,000-square-foot eating space with eight “kitchen ideas” that can function rotating menus in addition to take-home choices corresponding to pizza and $6 entire rotisserie chickens, decadent desserts and a juice bar full with a herb backyard.
Michael Wayland / CNBC
A big courtyard close to the kitchen and eating inside Ford Motor’s new world headquarters stays underneath development on Nov. 10, 2025 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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