Anchour Office

A longstanding collaboration and a blank canvas.

Woodhull and Anchour have had a close creative relationship for years, so when Anchour outgrew their previous office and chose Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine, as the site for their next one, the conversation about design started early and moved quickly. The campus environment, the working farm, the trails nearby: the setting fit how Anchour thinks about their own work, and that alignment shaped everything that followed. The space itself was a clean slate, with an open-plan layout, tall windows on both sides, and abundant natural light.

A client with a point of view.

As a brand agency, Anchour brought strong design instincts to the project and shared them freely. They wanted a warm, neutral base flexible enough to absorb change without requiring renovation, combined with moments of concentrated color in the meeting rooms to carry their brand identity. Birch plywood partitions, built and installed by McIntosh and Co., divide the floor plate into loosely defined zones while keeping long sightlines from the front entry to the back corner.

Breathing room.

The ceiling told a similar story: acoustic tile covers most of the overhead plane, but where soft-seating areas called for something different, the team cut into the field, exposing the ductwork and piping above, painting it to blend in, and letting that rawness define a sense of place. The cutouts create a subtle wayfinding logic through the space, tracking with the wood flooring below.

Color, warmth, and what was already there.

The team worked from there, pulling warm, earthy tones into the smaller meeting rooms and keeping the large one open and bright. The finished office holds together the way a well-considered space does: each decision visible, nothing competing. It doesn’t feel corporate. It feels like the people who work there.