Creative consultants Rapt Studio wanted to include a range of working environments at the offices for Eventbrite, after the company secured a permanent base on the sixth and seventh floors of 155 5th Street. Rapt Studio began the design process by surveying the company's employees to find out about their needs, and asking them to collect ideas using social network Pin...
Sky Factory Luminous SkyCeilings™, virtual skylights, faithfully reproduce the subtle visual stimuli of real sky. These award-winning skylights use Sky Factory’s Open Skies Image Technology™ to dramatically transform interiors into more expansive, natural feeling spaces. As unique biophilic design elements, SkyCeilings enliven the innate human connection to natur...
Commercial › Office This project is an adaptive re-use renovation of a garage to an office + library. The plan is a synthesis of organizing the work zones for utility and recycled material to new configurations. The vertical bookshelves, lateral pin-up wall and linear railing, horizontal desks and catwalk, and diagonal stair, are interwoven to integrate the efficiency...
SOESTHETIC GROUP have designed the Ukrainian offices for Playtech, a online gaming software company. The designer’s description The office is located in the new business centre Gulliver. A major feature is the panoramic view along the entire perimeter of the building.To incorporate this we were trying to make the interior with maximum light, transparent and cosy at th...
From the designers In this project we tried to build our “cabin”, a shelter to make us feel comfortable to develop our work as architects. With this aim we tried to arrange a typical ground floor of the XVIII century’s center of Ferrol. A narrow and elongated plot (5×16 m.), with few sunlight hours. Therefore, we created an “upside down keel board”, a white long st...
An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). Located in a former carpet factory in Shoreditch, Second Home is a collaborative workspace for various small companies, featuring transparent acry...
Seating areas are submerged into a pale wooden floor at this split-level office in London refitted by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow). Paul Crofts Studio carried out the refurbishment of a 1980s office block in Clerkenwell, London, for advertising agency Fold 7. The London-based studio reconfigured the space, adding a stage-like platform between the basement and upp...
Alexander Fehre used aluminium-mesh partitions and metal light fittings to suggest an industrial aesthetic in this showroom and office for a conveyor-belt company in Germany (+ slideshow). Alexander Fehre designed Movet Office Loft for manufacturer Movet across a single storey of an old industrial building in the town of Schorndorf, just outside Stuttgart. The German...
Warsaw studio MFRMGR has subdivided this office space in Poland to create individual workspaces for employees within wooden cabins designed to look like a "mini-town" (+ slideshow). MFRMGR Frejda & Gratkowski Architekci collaborated with Pamela Krzyszczak on the project for the Warsaw-based IT company Decerto. The studio filled the 400-square-metre commercial office ...
The Liang Dian Design Centre on Dongsishitiao is home to the new SPARK Beijing office; occupying 500 square meters on the second floor of a three story office building form the late 1980’s. An annex glass box had been added to second floor of the existing building allowing for the exterior brick façade to be experienced as an interior space. “We looked at the prese...
The old barracks in the south-west of Darmstadt is now the new home of the Alnatura brand. The new, modern campus stretches over a total of 55,000 square metres and consists of world of work, Waldorf kindergarten, a vegetarian organic restaurant and numerous school and adventure gardens. The office building with a gross area of 13,500 square metres is the largest offi...
Project: VHI Office Headquarters. Location: Dublin, Ireland. Application area: Offices. Project year: 2018. Products: BATU, REBA 65 LED Line, CONCEPT O, REBA 65 /T LED, REBA 65 /T LED Line, CROLL LED, REBA 65 D/I LED Line.
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The McGuire Building at the corner of 10th and Bryant is the new home to GM Cruise, the team of engineers working to build a fleet of self-driving cars for the nation’s largest automaker. GM hopes to use the two-story, 140,000-square-foot space to conduct “small test-run manufacturing,” develop software and test vehicles.
We are proud to announce the first installation of an ALFA 85 XL unit on the rooftop of a Heath Centre in Hellevoetsluis NL, it was installed to operate with a VRF system that handles the cooling side of things. As part of a larger renovation of the building, the ALFA 85 XL is operating at 10,000 m3/h and yet so quiet you can hear a pin drop..
Raffaello Rosselli collaborated with Luigi Rosselli architects to design their new office building in Surry Hills, Australia. The project started with the study of material waste streams looking for an appropriate object for a brise-soleil to filter the harsh western sun that the main façade faces. The terracotta tile, an overlooked symbol of suburbia, was chosen as it ...
Pardubice city has a brand new Airport terminal. The terminal bears the name of the first Czech pilot Jan Kašpar, a famous native of Pardubice. 2VV is also a Pardubice “native” and we are therefore proud to see that the new airport terminals are equipped with 2VV Air Curtains. Right when you enter the new terminal entrance, you will be met by high-performance FINESSE Ai...
the structure, which will climb to a total height of 110 meters, is characterized by its base where the twisted form is a result of the city’s strict planning regulations. in order to ensure that daylight entering neighboring buildings is not blocked by the tower, ten of the lower levels are pivoted around the central core. located near the city’s celebrated gasometer...
The glass and aluminum curtain wall provides a wide view and exceptional natural lighting.The project is spread over two levels, the ground floor is used for offices secretarial while the first floor is used the executive offices. The two floors communicate via a staircase in reinforced concrete exposed face and are characterized by a different use of materials and light...
Minimalism with loft elements and warm notes of Ukrainian art create a special atmosphere in the workshop that, like a mirror, reflects the owner’s inner being. The key concept of the architect’s office project is to implement the elements worked out by the designers to meet their customers’ needs. The studio with a total area of 200 sq. m combines a showroom and a home...
With its 170 meters, Tower Hadid is one of three high-rise buildings that make unmistakable the square in the center of CityLife. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the building grows vertically with a dynamic twisting that enhances the perception and views with respect to urban axes. At the foot of the tower is a commercial gallery and covered walkways connecting to the subway...
goroka is an audiovisual creative studio that has opened its headquarters, designed by isern serra and sylvain carlet, in barcelon’s poblenou district. the goal was to create a dynamic space that conceptually approaches the idea of study and diverts from the traditional office without losing practicality and functionality. the working hub of about 350 square meters is lo...
Let’s face the facts. Open plan workspaces encounter several acoustic challenges that their closed counterparts steer clear of. Still, more organizations prioritize an open office layout. The reasons are many and they all seem to far overshadow the disadvantages. Open offices offer employees a high degree of flexibility and open possibilities for collaboration. At ...
Inspiring. Different. These words describe Kienbaum, an international-based consulting firm with headquarters in Germany. However, we might as well include these two words in the description of their new workspace in Cologne, which was refurbished after the company relocated from its previous location in Gummersbach. But what is it that makes this workspace so inspiring ...
BuckleyGrayYeoman Architects has completed the £15 million refurbishment of Derwent London’s Buckley Building. Located on Aylesbury Street at the north-eastern end of Clerkenwell Green, The Buckley Building offers over 87,000 sq ft of high quality office accommodation with ground level retail in the heartland of many of London’s creative industries. BuckleyGrayYeoman ...
OOIIO proposes a new work space concept, adapted to the singular conditions of the special users of this building, all of them ready to develop the first steps of their new businesses. This people has lots of initiative and ambitions, they follow their dreams and are up for risk their money and time for their goals. When one of this guys gets their targets a lot of peopl...
located in the landmark east aia kowloon tower in kwun tong, hong kong, the design inhabits two floors as well as a large external terrace, totaling an area of 35,000sqft. influenced by an exchange of contextual narratives from the local hipster culture of the post-industrial kwun tong to the vibrant urban life of williamsburg, brooklyn, the design encourages social inte...
the rapidly developing west bund area of shanghai, china, is set to become one of the bigger art districts in the city- a setting which led local studio archi-union to maximize the floor-area ratio of the modest site while maintaining an architectural expression when designing the fab-union space. the micro-scale reinforced concrete structure is to serve as a future non-...
built between 1902 and 1907, ‘tour & taxis’ is an old customs clearance and storage complex that covers 40 hectares of former wetlands. with the introduction of the EU, and the subsequent lifting of custom borders, the building now serves no purpose. in vincent callebaut’s masterplan, the site’s warehouses and sheds have been repurposed into offices with a commitment to ...
international firm foster + partners has begun construction work on ‘varso tower’, a 310 meter-tall (1,017 ft) skyscraper that will become poland’s tallest building. located in central warsaw, the structure will primarily contain offices, with an observation deck positioned 230 meters (755 ft) above ground. there will be also be a restaurant on levels 46 and 47, while sh...
in canada, batay-csorba architects has sought to build upon the rich lineage of the toronto’s precast concrete history. in its concept for ‘[misfit]fit’, a six-storey 32,000 square foot boutique office building, the firm suggests an alternative to the pervasive glass wall curtain project that is common in new development. the proposed building’s program is comprised of f...
As part of the design, the client requested a used jet fuselage to be hung from the ceiling. Due to the building being a historic structure, this wasn’t easy as the used fuselage was deemed too large to bring into the building. Instead, the designers were able to have a new fuselage built from within the office. Underneath the impressive fuselage is a glass enclosed r...
The question leading to the basic concept underlying this project was: how to offer the highest quality and most efficient ergonomic work spaces possible? The answer to this question resolved all the other issues facing the operation with regard to its insertion in the urban fabric, its environmental quality and the representation of the activity of banking in a period o...
In the so-called WATT-tower (formerly an electricity company’s office building designed in 1958 by Léon Stynen), a co-working concept dubbed Fosbury & Sons now takes up the first floor, a 3,000 square metre space that extrapolates the idea behind similar international projects such as WeWork and Soho Works. As the founders, Stijn Geeraets and Maarten Van Gool claim, “We ...
TOTAL AREA: 660 sqm YEAR: 2008 The conservation project of the Palazzo Bonaparte, in Rome, included the need to protect and conserve the elegant internal structures of the building, while keeping the accessibility and visibility of the original mosaic floors. MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY NESITE » 660 sqm of extra clear and frosted glass raised floor with various dimens...
Aedas‘ ‘unilever headquarters’ opened this june in jakarta, indonesia as part of BSD green office park complex — the country’s first green office district. the project is designed with three key elements of indonesian culture in mind — community, diversity, and nature. this follows Aedas’ overall design mission, to blend aspects of european heritage within a given cultur...
