Website-builder and hosting service company Jimdo has recently moved into a new office space in Hamburg, Germany. Design was completed by an in-house team.

Jimdo was founded in 2007 by Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, and Matthias Henze. The three founders set up base in Hamburg Bahrenfeld, in what used to be a margarine factory. The team started on the top floor (5th floor) of the Klinkerstein building with more of a flat-share feel—consisting of a large open office, a kitchen with a coffee machine, and a balcony. Through the years Jimdo has grown and gradually worked its way down, floor by floor, knocking down walls, and creating partitions and stairways.

In second half of 2016, Jimdo arrived at the ground floor of Stresemannstrasse 375 with the opening of the new reception area, an open service area for all Jimdo users, and the larger and brighter rooms of the Jimdo employee restaurant “ChezSam”.

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GASPARBONTA has designed the new offices of software development firm Hortonworks located in Budapest, Hungary.

After designing an office in 2015 for Sequence IQ, a Budapest-based development firm acquired by Hortonworks, we had the chance to continue the cooperation with the firm this year, in their recent expansion in Budapest. The new office is located in the same building, just three floors below the first one, with the same geometrical possibilities.

We went on with our original concept, to create an open, playful, welcoming environment for all employees, something like an ‘adult playground’, just like last year, only with different tools. We use simple colors on big surfaces, red, green, blue – the same colors our monitors use to generate every color. The ceiling in the open spaces is covered with a unique wallpaper we designed specifically for this project, a cloud made up from small dots. Just as the actual clouds are made up from tiny drops of water and the clouds we use in computing, which are made up from tiny bits of data.

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Maris Interiors has designed the new offices of Zoopla Property Group, owner of the digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch and PrimeLocation, located in London.

The new ZPG headquarters, which have undergone a complete renovation in keeping with ZPG’s vision and are a distinct departure from typical office environments, have been designed to incorporate all the characteristics of a home over three floors of ‘living space’.

The new offices now house almost 500 of ZPG’s London-based team members and include themed areas, meeting rooms and break-out spaces including a Living Room, Dining Room, Wine Cellar, Study, Media Room, Conservatory, Library, Terrace and even a Treehouse.

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PDM International has developed the new offices of global technology company Microsoft located in Suzhou, China.

Details of the Brief: PDM International had done several projects for Microsoft previously and where invited to tender for the project alongside other top international design companies competing in China. Since the tender brief asked for a design that would help to attract and retain young & talented people, the focus was on the concept and how to cater to the unique needs of the different engineering groups while integrating the Workplace Advantage (WPA) program, a strategic program designed to identify and meet the unique needs of Microsoft’s businesses through the provision of appropriately designed and equipped work environments.

The new Suzhou Campus has been designed to cater for a maximum occupancy headcount of 2000 pax. The goal was to create an energetic and welcoming design language / concept for the campus building that was designed to include multifunctional seminar and event spaces, attractive F&B choices, indoor and outdoor sports and wellness facilities as well as flexible team spaces to support creative brainstorm sessions and casual / formal meetings alike.

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Steven Leach Group has developed the new offices of global tech company Citrix located in Nanjing, China.

Citrix Systems, a global client and leader in innovation amongst technology enterprises partnered up with SL+A to design a new office reflective of their industry status. Located in the Jiangning District of Nanjing,the Citrix Systems China R&D Technical Support Center is designed with a fresh, new concept.

Through effective design developments and innovative construction techniques, we were able to provide Citrix with a comfortable, innovation encouraging and environmentally friendly office space.

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The wacky tech office is a post-millennium cliche. So it should come as no surprise that Dropbox’s new San Francisco HQ has such odd-ball features as a basement karaoke bar, floating balls of moss, and a room covered in Delft-inspired tile.

Designed by the office interior mavens at Rapt Studio, the sprawling 300,000-square-foot space was separated into distinct design chunks or “neighborhoods.” Rapt was inspired by the social topographies of cities to consider each area as a separate stylistic enclave where different departments and temperaments could thrive. Each area has open areas and meeting rooms designed to fit the work and social needs of everyone from collaboration lovers to solitude seekers.

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