These are the first pictures of Google's new base in King’s Cross, where facilities include Swiss Designer sofas, sleep pods for “napping in the workplace” and a running track.

Today 800 software engineers and code-writers moved in to the top floors of the search giant's largest office in Europe, the first of 2,500 “Googlers” set to relocate there.

The 371,000 sq feet, 11-storey building at 6 Pancras Square was bought by Axa Real Estate last year from developer BNP Paribas Real Estate, which has leased the offices to Google in what an executive called a “very significant investment”.

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Etsy, the online marketplace where creative entrepreneurs can set up storefronts to sell their own products, launched in 2005 with the goal of creating an online retail space that would build a more fulfilling and lasting world.

So it's no surprise that its newest 200,000-square-foot headquarters in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn would be filled with toxin-free paint, salvaged wood, and furnishings purchased from Etsy sellers. The 819 employees that work in the new state-of-the-art office are free to roam the nine-floor complex, finding a comfy spot to set up camp and work remotely away from their desks.

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From the fifth-floor putting green of Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters, looking out at a rolling horizon of sun-scorched mountains, it’s quite easy to forget you’re at work. An executive is practising tai chi by the cactus garden, while another jiggles in a robotic massage chair nearby. A volleyball match is in full swing in the lush-planted courtyard below, while raucous shrieks of table football emerge from the Chill Zone, next to a row of space-age nap pods. “Meet by the ping-pong tables,” reads a sign stuck on the window. “Today’s spinning class will be on the terrace! :)”

With its new $300m office block, which stands like a stack of gleaming white hard drives at an intersection north of San Jose, the South Korean electronics giant is plunging headlong into the holiday camp workplace culture of the Bay Area tech scene.

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IPsoft, a New York-based IT automation company, worked with the designer to relocate their existing Austin office to a place where they could reiterate their company branding and vision. 

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Blitz Architecture + Interiors has developed the new offices of fast-growing cyber security company Malwarebytes located in Santa Clara, California.