Corporate · Banking · Since 2020

Ocean Bank

One bank, one headquarters, floor after floor. Six years of work that reads as one design.

Mohawk Nutopia 2.0 carpet tile along the window wall — Headquarters: Mohawk Nutopia 2.0 along the window wall, the first install of the collection, and the elevator lobby in porcelain.

The renovated elevator lobby in white porcelain with a navy wall — Headquarters: Mohawk Nutopia 2.0 along the window wall, the first install of the collection, and the elevator lobby in porcelain.

Client: Ocean Bank
Location: Headquarters, 780 NW 42nd Ave, and Flagler branch, Miami
Sector: Corporate · Banking
Since: 2020 — six projects and counting
Materials: Mohawk Nutopia 2.0 · Mannington Origami Mountain Fold · Mohawk Hot and Heavy LVT · Tarkett Urban Stone · porcelain

01 — The brief

Ocean Bank has served Miami-Dade since 1982. For its own headquarters, the bank wanted floors that read as design, not office carpet — and a building that feels like one place even though it is renovated a floor at a time.

02 — The challenge

A bank never really closes. Each floor is renovated around working staff, and each new phase must match finishes chosen years earlier, after products are discontinued or recolored. The headquarters carpet, Mohawk’s Nutopia 2.0, was so new that no contractor had installed it.

Design decisions

AGradient toward the light. Nutopia runs lightest at the window wall, so the floor brightens where daylight lands.
BOne carpet family, many colorways. Origami Mountain Fold carries from the 5th floor (Peacock) to the Flagler branch (Butterfly): headquarters and branch read as one brand.
CCushion in the offices. Cushion backings add comfort and quiet open-plan floors.
DDraw it before installing. Shop drawings for each floor set direction, seams and transitions.

03 — How we solved it

CIC was the first contractor cleared to install Nutopia 2.0; we planned seams so the gradient crosses them without a break.

Every phase since follows the same method: measurements, testing, shop drawings, submittals, then installation in sections so staff keep working. Floors were ground flat on the 5th floor and moisture-tested at Flagler before any finish went down.

Six years, one finish language

Flagler Branch	2024–25	2,723 sf of carpet tile, LVT and wood base after moisture testing.
HQ 5th Floor, Phase 4	2024	Origami Mountain Fold in Peacock with cushion backing; floor grinding and base.
HQ Elevator Lobby	2022	Porcelain floor, drywall, paint and doors.
HQ 4th Floor	2022	10,900 sf of LVT and carpet tile, laid out from shop drawings.
HQ Office Flooring	2020	Carpet and tile, with install direction and movement joints planned floor by floor.
HQ open office	First install	Mohawk Nutopia 2.0, the collection’s first install anywhere.

Open office with carpet tile and marble-look tile path — 5th floor, Phase 4

Patterned navy carpet tile meeting glass partitions — Office floors, 2020

Wood-look LVT in a Flagler branch office — Flagler branch

Carpet detail under office furniture — Detail

04 — The result

A headquarters and branch that share one finish language — the kind of continuity that comes from a contractor who knows the building.

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