Technology Office
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Gensler add playfulness and a down-to-earth ...

Gensler's playful offices for Adobe in Dublin reflect the collaborative, down-to-earth spirit of the US software giant.

Gensler add playfulness and a down-to-earth ethos to Adobe's Dublin office
Technology Office
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Inside Google’s cool new Playa Vista offices

Where the new and old architecture meet throughout the building, the new elements are always set back to allow the older elements to take center stage.

Inside Google’s cool new Playa Vista offices
Design, Architects Office
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Gary Lee Partners Offices – Chicago

With a focus on materiality, functionality and hospitality, the Gary Lee Partners office in Chicago represents the interior design firm's sophisticated, yet approachable aesthetic that aims to bring people together.

Gary Lee Partners Offices – Chicago
Manufacturing
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Alexander Fehre Designs a Surreal, ...

The Stuttgart, Germany–based interior architect combined vibrantly painted furniture, ample applications of zinc and wood, and bold black-and-white zigzags.

Alexander Fehre Designs a Surreal, Postmodern-Inflected Office in Germany
Technology Office
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Intcomex Offices – San Jose, Costa Rica

Viroslav Arquitectos recently completed the design for the offices of Intcomex, a security solutions platform company, located in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Intcomex Offices – San Jose, Costa Rica

GAMA Healthcare Offices – London

GAMA Healthcare Offices – London

Area Sq has designed the new offices of GAMA Healthcare located in Watford, England.

Manufacturing and distribution specialists GAMA Healthcare purchased their own building on the back of their continued success. Wanting to move away from a conventional, clinical setting to a vibrant and fun office environment, GAMA’s new workplace needed to encourage collaboration amongst teams, support the existing culture and reflect the business’ entrepreneurial spirit. Due to the 50-strong workforce being split across two floors, connectivity was a key consideration when designing their new space.

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Dimension Data Offices – Singapore

Dimension Data Offices – Singapore

Merge OTR has designed the new offices of information technology company Dimension Data located in Singapore.

Helping people engage: Collaborative spaces are planned near & around the main work area in the form of meeting rooms, discussion pods & phone booths. Writable paint converts wall surfaces into brainstorming aids. These facilities enable staffs to rapidly get into non-formal collaborative activities with minimal fuss.

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This Chic Co-Working Space Revitalizes A Grand, Abandoned Bank

This Chic Co-Working Space Revitalizes A Grand, Abandoned Bank

The Royal Bank of Canada's historic Montreal headquarters was once the tallest skyscraper in the country, built in 1927. But the bank abandoned the grand space in 2010, leaving behind a decaying neoclassical masterpiece with 50-foot ceilings, brass chandeliers, and marble floors. (And to think, Montreal is now building stuff like this.)

Now the building has a second life, after being repurposed by Crew, which hired architect Henri Cleinge to turn the former bank into a cafe and co-working office featured recently in The Spaces.

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The Print Rooms Offices – London

The Print Rooms Offices – London

Frost Architects has recently developed the serviced business center The Print Rooms located in London.

The Print Rooms operates as a serviced business centre for small and medium sized businesses which is owned and managed by Workspace Group PLC. The existing building was refurbished with all common parts, WC’s and circulation, upgraded and reconfigured. A further 23,000 sqft of lettable space was added to the building by constructing 2 additional floors on the roof and a 5 storey side extension in the existing loading bay. The new ground floor area of the side extension is now the new entrance to the building, incorporating café, reception, meeting room, admin facilities and informal coworking space. The reception and café area was designed to have an informal, playful feel, with rough materials such as expanded mesh panels, expressed structure and exposed services mixed with polished surfaces such as a mirrored wall and the polyester resin lacquered ply panels which line the perimeter of the space.

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Sky Offices – Leeds

Sky Offices – Leeds

BDG architecture + design has developed the new offices of UK telecom company Sky located in Leeds.

BDG architecture + design was engaged by Sky in February 2015 to create ‘Digital Centre of Excellence’ northern hub for Sky creating a new workspace platform. The core brief was to provide a space for a mix of new and existing staff comprising high-tech development engineers and young graduates to support the ‘Sky Academy’ programme. The new environment was required to provide a welcoming home for existing staff, as well as an aspirational recruiting springboard for Sky, with an exciting, informing and fresh environment.

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Zurich North America Opens New HQ

Zurich North America Opens New HQ

In an exciting moment for Zurich North America, the company today announced the opening of its new 783,800 sf headquarters that will be home to nearly 3,000 employees and contractors. The new corporate headquarters is the result of a remarkably extensive workplace testing and engagement effort that crowdsourced ideas from Zurich employees years before the opening. CannonDesign is proud to have had its workplace strategy, interior design and change management teams contribute to this dynamic project.

“This building is a showcase of all we are at Zurich: its excellence in design, its focus on sustainability, and its reflection of our employees,” said Mike Foley, chief executive officer for Zurich North America. “ Our new headquarters building embodies a new chapter for our organization and our recommitment to the North American market as part of our broader, global business plan.  We see a bright future for our customers, shareholders and employees.”

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Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space

Macro Sea turns abandoned Brooklyn warehouse into New Lab co-working space

New York developer Macro Sea has turned a warehouse at Brooklyn's Navy Yard into a workspace for tech entrepreneurs, using the building's "cathedral-like" steel trusswork to inform new elements.

New Lab is located in Building 128 of the Brooklyn Navy Yard – a former shipbuilding complex between the Dumbo and Williamsburg neighbourhoods that is undergoing extensive regeneration.

Macro Sea worked with Marvel Architects to transform the disused shell into a space for designers and entrepreneurs working in the fields of emerging technologies like robotics, artificial intelligence and connected devices.

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Planit's New Office: Storytelling Through Physical Space

Planit's New Office: Storytelling Through Physical Space

Daring storytellers often seek new vehicles for their high-wire narrative feats. Such is the case with Planit, a group of energetic digital storytellers who turned to physical space to help tell their own story. Baltimore-born and unflinchingly colorful, this award-winning communications, marketing and interactive ad agency had been encased in a sleek Class-A office building fronting the city’s Inner Harbor. But Planit is not a sleek Class-A office space kind of company. Planit is a company in which the founders give employees skateboard decks as gifts and staff members continuously find new uses for the company pool table. Corporate they are not.

How these heroes of storytelling got from their Class-A digs to their new home—an adapted syrup processing and packaging facility—is a story of a shift in thinking and realization that the time was ripe for a bold announcement of arrival.

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Business Consultancy Offices – Hamburg

Business Consultancy Offices – Hamburg

seel bobsin partner has developed a new office design for a business consultancy in Hamburg, Germany.

Within a contemporary built Office floor in the historic Chilehaus in Hamburg’s city centre, a central area of about 300 square meters was gutted and redesigned as a social area. The two-part area is designed so that different use cases, there can be depicted. Objective was a maximum preservation area to encourage both small and large events.

At lunchtime, the new communication centre with its spacious buffet bar serves as staff bistro. Throughout the day, different team meetings can take place in parallel and in different constellations of participants. Different scenarios are there feasible by the informal meeting meeting to the interactive team with presentation.

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Bain & Company Offices – Rio de Janeiro

Bain & Company Offices – Rio de Janeiro

Leonetti Piemonte Arquitetura has designed the offices of consulting firm Bain & Company located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bain & Company has offices in many countries, including Brazil. Due to its growth, the company found itself in need of moving into a new space in Rio de Janeiro, and LPA was called upon do design this new office.

The project sought to emphasize Rio de Janeiro’s identity, to create an office that looks like Rio itself. We undertook rigorous research about the city’s look and feel in order to attain a young and modern language.

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FRESH DIRTT: Manufacturing Company, Maple Plain, MN

FRESH DIRTT: Manufacturing Company, Maple Plain, MN

Stand-up conference rooms are a central feature in this prototype and custom parts manufacturer's renovated space, redesigned to accommodate several rapidly expanding departments. Angled full-height glass and clerestory walls with pivot doors add character to the space while maintaining a bright and open atmosphere. Write Away surfaces give engineers and software writers plenty of practical working space; monitors and videoconference equipment are easily repositioned on DIRTT surfaces; and DIRTT's supporting wall structure easily integrates tablets for a conference room booking system. The bold new design also includes the company's new branding, and the entire space can easily be adjusted or relocated as company needs evolve.

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The Wave II Coworking Offices – Hong Kong

The Wave II Coworking Offices – Hong Kong

Spatial Concept has developed a new coworking office location for The Wave located in Hong Kong.

This is The Wave 2nd coworking office designed by Spatial Concept after the huge success of the 1st office opened in 6 months ago. As the new shared office is targeted for I.T., bloggers and tech startups, the concept is very different from the previous one. 

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EY Offices – Warsaw

EY Offices – Warsaw

Massive Design has designed the new offices of global advisory company EY located in Warsaw, Poland.

EY advisory company has finished realization of their original concept “Workplace of the future”. The aim was to create modern work environment, that facilitates teamwork, allows providing services at the highest level and attracts best specialists from the labour market. This is already second transformation within the last ten years performed together with Massive Design company.

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Boys and Girls interior by Marc-Kilkenny Architects

Boys and Girls interior by Marc-Kilkenny Architects

As wild cards go, Marc Kilkenny- Architects (MK-A) has, it seems, dealt something of an ace to its client, Dublin-based creative agency Boys and Girls. For in designing the interiors for its new Bloomfield House headquarters, MK-A has succeeded, according to the agency, in delivering a scheme that is “us in building form”. No small claim for a firm that cites “daring simplicity” as its central philosophy.

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THIS MELBOURNE SPEC SUITE SHOWS OFF FLEXIBLE WORK

THIS MELBOURNE SPEC SUITE SHOWS OFF FLEXIBLE WORK

German investment giant Deka Immobilien and asset manager CBRE recently engaged Technē Architecture + Interior Design with the intent to attract new tenants to a Melbourne tower amidst the competitive commercial rental market. The 20-story tower sits on the corner of William and Collins Streets within vicinity of the Rialto Towers and other landmark Melbourne buildings.

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Nordea Offices – London

Nordea Offices – London

Peldon Rose has developed the new offices of European bank Nordea located in London.

The London office for Nordea didn’t represent their respected brand and needed to be modernised. With staff being spread across the building, their new workspace needed to bring their people together to help improve staff integration and communication. Nordea required an office with better facilities that improved the flow of the office.

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Huawei Global Offices – Dublin

Huawei Global Offices – Dublin

The brief outlined that the project should reflect the collegial and fun working atmosphere that Huawei espouses and create a colourful open plan workspace that demonstrates innovation, vibrancy and collaborative thinking.

Inspired by the shape and colour of Huawei’s logo, which represents movement and communication, Codex’s winning design concept focused on creating a stimulating and interactive workspace environment. This theme and ethos was used throughout all the conceptualised areas.

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Siegel+Gale’s NYC Office is so Serious About Simplifying Design It Devotes an Entire Department to It

Siegel+Gale’s NYC Office is so Serious About Simplifying Design It Devotes an Entire Department to It

While visiting Pennsylvania Amish country in the 1970s, Alan Siegel, founder and chairman emeritus of global brand strategy, design and experience agency Siegel+Gale, saw a sign that struck a chord. It read: simple is smart.

Decades later, the notion still rings true for him. “We continue to operate with a tagline that Alan landed on in the 70s,” says Howard Belk, co-CEO and chief creative officer. “We’re still known as the simplicity company."

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