The building is located on a former industrial site that was later home to the offices of telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent. Housing corporation De Alliantie is transforming the entire site into a new residential and commercial district, including the renovation of two of the existing five office buildings. Amsterdam-based Studioninedots – which previously added...
in line with the company’s heritage of producing traditional japanese ‘mino washi’ paper, the design provides a luminous and minimal environment for working. the building’s layout takes an L-shape with each of the spaces facing an internal courtyard. an outdoor terrace opens up the facility on the upper level, and provides a place for relaxation and viewing toward the it...
What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project? We were selected to design the Garage and Salt Shed through an open RFP process that encouraged design excellence. Dattner Architects and WXY architecture + urban design teamed together because of a shared commitment to bring design excellence to public projects and a passion for New York City. ...
D/DOCK is responsible for the interior design of the new work environment of the developer and investor.Collaboration, flexibility and willfulness are the bearers of the interior design of the new work environment of OVG. “A completely innovative concept has successfully been created in our new office in Amsterdam. Health, exercise and a balance between exertion and rel...
In 2009 PLP was invited to design The Edge, Deloitte’s new offices in Zuidas, Amsterdam’s business centre. The ambition of the project was two-fold: to consolidate Deloitte’s employees, previously spread around multiple buildings throughout the city, within a single environment; and to create a ‘smart building’, intended as a catalyst for Deloitte’s transition into the d...
The compact one-hundred-and-fifty-square-metre space was stripped of the 1990’s fit-out and carefully re-planned to consist of an entrance hall, rooms for manicure, hairstyling areas, small and large connecting halls, a private client room and a courtyard terrace. With much of the building’s original period architectural and design detailing removed during its former ...
Showcasing their particular colourful, contemporary and trend-focused decorative style, the design of their own new studio interior is a bold playground of rich colour-blocked planes, decorative marble details and gold trims that continues the concept behind the studio’s new branding and identity. Each and every wall and surface of the 120m2 space has been carefully cons...
Office outfitter Desque found accommodation in the ‘Klokgebouw’ in the ‘Strijp-S’ area in Eindhoven. This imposing, industrial listed building formerly housed the Philips factory. The main inspiration during the refurbishment was based on the transformation from production area to home base for a creative design and interior decorating company. The new interior blends na...
Saint Jerome 17 is a workspace, an office that brings together concepts and materials displaced within a local situated in the historic center of Granada. Marked by the presence of a strong structure made of brick walls 60 cm. wide and wooden floors from the late nineteenth century, this place is a palimpsest of successive interventions to wich we adhere us with recyc...
CA's guidelines for the design team were to create a young and dynamic environment; as a result the design team came up with an idea for a new kind of work space that incorporated all of the above as well as being inspirational and unique. This type of creative and open design enables for many formal and informal collaboration areas that act as a buffer between active...
TPG created a workplace environment which blurs the lines between work and play, while seamlessly incorporating technology, affording team members the ability to work anywhere within the space. The design features a rustic, industrial aesthetic, achieved through the use of poured and polished concrete, open ceilings with exposed ductwork, and custom canted feature wal...
The flooring on three floors and a circular Auditorium of stairs, were wrapped all around in bamboo flooring boards. This element is the power center of the three-floor offices. In this project we used the old classic method of flooring, by placing small floor ‘boards’ made from short solid bamboo strips, creating the specific industrial look, while the polishing and ...
The re-structuring turned this sense of “isolation” into an asset, on a socio-economic as well as an urban level. The project we conducted is a renovation, re-structuring and an unveiling of the towers’ self-evident resources. The site is now very well connected to the public transport system, with a métro stop right outside the building, and the Grand Paris network, ...
The building is situated in Barcelona's Eixample, in the 255 of Córcega Street, between Enrique Granados and Aribau street. The change of use from offices to hotel meant having to create 20% of courtyards; this led us to empty the centre of the existing building, placing the courtyard and the vertical communication, formed by stairs, elevators and hoists. The courtyar...
located inside a former cold storage warehouse in the city’s fulton market district, the 72,000-square foot facility promotes collaboration among employees through a light-filled, open floor plan. commissioned by SRAM, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of bicycle components, the brief called for an interior that connected staff by providing a range of collaborativ...
the interiors demonstrate an ‘elastic’ floorplan that provides versatile independent and collaboration space. the elimination of cubicles, maximizes the shared space thus, creating a zone of shared mini conference rooms that provide acoustic privacy. the reduced use of partition walls means less construction materials during its realization. a glazed conference room i...
the program is organized around a central space, commonly referred to as the ‘diamond’, that serves as a primary conference room. surrounding the area, are a bay of open workspaces, as well as closed in offices for higher ups. the ‘contacto’ interior is heavily coated in green; which ties the office to the company’s visual identity, and significantly brightens the space.
during the early design stages, kuma approached the scheme by developing a hybrid, carbon fiber material called ‘kotmatsu seiren’s cf rod’. drawing influence from the local technique of rope braiding, the fiber rod created combines together old and new technologies to create a knitted, light, rope-like rod that embodies strong and flexible properties. from afar, these ca...
agoratic, a company who specializes in computer education, commissioned malka and his team to design a workplace that incorporated a series of multipurpose zones capable of hosting digital training spaces, administration offices, or meeting rooms. as part of the project’s development, the architects created and patented a floating wall system, which sees partitions su...
After a few wrenches in the original plan and some disagreements with the local city council about just how much land the tech giant could build on, Google has finally unveiled a revised design that gives us a better idea of where the project is heading. It might be a subtle way of maintaining a sense of humor about the whole debacle, but the newest version of the HQ des...
Named Working in Nature, the beautiful prefabricated structure boasts an array of energy efficient features that earned it Casa Clima Classe A certification. LCA’s two-story architecture studio was purposefully located on a site where a small shed originally stood, rather than a virgin plot. Inspired by the rural vernacular, the gabled timber-framed building comprise...
APA spent 10 weeks transforming the office into what Barclaycard has named a CoLab space, ripping up the old carpets and up-cycling existing furniture pieces. The studio's intention was to create an environment of "rawness and robustness", which workers could use while working in groups on technology projects and other business initiatives using a methodology called A...
The architecture practice and workplace design specialists won the commission for their ambitious design to transform the 20,000 sq m space into a dynamic workplace for OgilvyGroup and MEC, two of the Uk's most prominent marketing agencies. (This will be the first time in the companies' respective histories that their entire London team sits under one roof.) Matheson ...
the ‘nakagawa masashichi shoten omotesando’ explores a ‘shop-in-shop’ concept and during its development, the design team opted to minimize the amount of infill construction. the resulting office space is kept simple and minimal. taking advantage of its leafy location, the interior uses bespoke furniture to define its character. the open plan office space features a ...
The ROKI Global Innovation Center, situated in the city of Hamamatsu in Japan’s western Shizuoka Prefecture, is a sprawling wooden and steel structure with many eco-friendly elements. The design takes advantage of natural light and passive airflow, and it features sliding doors that blur the line between outside and in, and an energy management system that keeps carbon e...
BHBVT Architects in Berlin took up the challenge to impress some of the world’s foremost climate scientists with a super energy-efficient and environmentally harmonious new research space. After three years of construction, the Potsdam Institute moved into its new woodland home with natural light-filled offices heated only by waste energy derived from supercomputers used...
the scheme, which is located in the californian city of mountain view, has been collaboratively designed by bjarke ingels group and heatherwick studio. the original proposal, submitted for planning in may 2015, ran into difficulty after google was refused the land needed to complete the vast 316,000 square meter masterplan. located at charleston east, the revised sche...
the intervention is an expansion that effectively doubles the headquarter’s available space, and features organizational shifts that align well with the client’s branding. featuring both highly finished and intentionally industrial areas, the office accommodates a range of activities with various levels of formality. conference rooms, relaxed activity ‘hubs’, and open of...
This time, ALG joined forces with Kengo Kuma, an architect that the firm has worked with many times in the past, cultivating the relationship between lighting and architecture through projects such as Ginza Onsen Fujiya, Nagasaki Prefecture Art Museum, and Forest/Floor. In designing the lighting for Toshima Ecomusee Town, ALG president Takeshi Konishi and his colleagu...
Designed by local firm Legorreta + Legorreta in collaboration with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the 50-story office block combines traditional elements of Mexican architecture with modern eco-friendly design practices, including minimization of waste and greenhouse gas emissions. The BBVA Bancomer project is the first completed project by LegoRogers, the name for ...
Architectural form, technological innovation, environmental and social sustainability: besides the more "compositional" aspects of energy, movement and nature, these are the axes which define this building's design. In this project Massimo Pierattelli encountered an interlocutor which fully shared his approach, because it was already part of the company's DNA. Arval is a...
The core principle of this project is to provide multiple transitional layers to achieve a soft and light spatial transparency. The boundaries between inside and outside, man-made environment and nature result in a simple, coherent symbiosis. One embraces the other, and vice versa. This spatial emergence is cultivated by deep understanding of local architecture typology...
Located in the Aarhus port and surrounded by canals and lakes on all four sides, this complex functions as a 22,000 sqm commercial office for 800 employees, as well as a 24,000 sq m goods reception, car park and plant. Reflecting Bestseller's scope and worldwide reach – eleven brands available in over 3,000 branded stores across 38 markets – the construction constitut...
Throughout the space, references to food have been made, as Instacart is an internet based grocery service. For example, this carrot. Produce boxes were transformed into custom bar height tables for quick meetings. All of the meeting rooms in the office have a strong two-toned paint palette to express the sliced carrot, which is so inherent to the Instacart brand. ...
The Danish firm's design was selected for its response to a somewhat contradictory set of goals and values: to be grand and formal enough to instill a sense of respect in the court and faith in the justice process as a whole, yet also able to communicate trust, transparency and hope; and to create an 'open' building that was physically welcoming while meeting some of the...
Now renamed OneOcean, the old port has become, claims the management, the most secure luxury marina in the world. It's a work of fledgling Barcelona-based studio SCOB, who won the commission in an invitation-only competition. The plan encompasses not only architecture, but also the design of outdoor furniture, signage and the 'tidying up' of the old quays and docks. It h...
