Onoffice magazine

Pullpo is a production centre, design agency and photography studio with offices in Argentina and Chile, designing ads for the likes of Pepe and Lee jeans, and an umbrella company to sites such as cooltrends.com, a fashion advertising site in Spanish. The starting point for its new Chile office was the abandoned facilities of a salt factory, in the western sector of Santiago. This cavernous industrial site was converted by architect Hania Stambuk into a moody and atmospheric workspace from…

The Royal Borough of Windsor houses Eton College, Ascot racecourse, the Queen, most weekends, and less expected, one of Britain’s top ad agencies.

Words by Gareth Gardner East London-based practice IDE-Architecture was charged with fitting out fledgeling creative agency Work Club’s first office, avoiding the pitfalls of over-branding and wow for wow’s sake Pity the poor creative agency. The pressure to occupy a workspace that makes you stand out from the crowd must feel overwhelming. Indoor lawn? Seen that. Caravan as meeting room? Been there. Brand messages emblazoned over the walls? Don’t even waste my time buying the T-shirt.Far braver is the agency…

Words by Helen PartonLondon-based architects Urban Salon designed the new offices for communications agency Edcoms, making the most of the spectacular skyline views, found Helen PartonWaterloo. Run-of-the-mill workplace design was defeated. Urban Salon won the war. We’re eleven floors up in the Capital Tower building, high above the south London sprawl in the offices of EdComs, a communications agency that deals primarily with the education sector. Today the place is packed with children and adults engaged in a seminar, which…

Words by Kerstin ZumsteinWill Alsop’s first UK office project, on London’s South Bank, is now complete. The London Development Agency is the first tenant, occupying two floors fitted out by Sheppard RobsonFor the last three years, Londoners have eagerly been watching Will Alsop’s Palestra building emerge among the grey boxes on the South Bank. True to his famously flamboyant style, this £140m project has changed the face of Southwark. And it’s no surprise that the first tenant to move into…