Specht Harpman designed the new 40,000 sf headquarters for Concrete Incorporated in New York's landmarked Starrett Lehigh building. The project was designed to capitalize on both the building's historic character and Concrete's commitment to developing first-quality media businesses.

The new offices respect the original concrete structure and the sinuous steel window walls, while introducing a new use and new material vocabulary into the building. Specht Harpman designed all the enclosed spaces, such as meeting rooms, technical centers, and service areas, to be joined along an articulated interior wall. The workstations and social areas are deployed in an open field to leave the continuous, curving window wall completely free of obstructions. The arrangement of the workstations follows the layout of the heavy equipment and machinery that marked the floors for so many years.

Specht Harpman worked within a palette of durable industrial materials for the design of this new space. The office features a resurfaced concrete floor, steel curtain walls at the primary conference rooms, protective steel cladding at certain social areas, custom steel and Douglas fir workstations throughout the office, and cast resin "tanks" at the smaller meeting rooms. The tank rooms recall the "crown" of water towers on the building’s roof and have come to be called the office’s "think tanks."