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Portland creative agency Swift crafts a space that reflects its values

12 Jun 2017

Airbnb's low-tech and flexible Portland office

22 Dec 2015

Chicago’s early skyscrapers provide a fine backdrop||

Chicago Biennial

15 Dec 2015

Top launches at the world's contract design show NeoCon

03 Aug 2015

Acxiom's corporate cultural shift by Studio O+A

28 Jul 2015

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Uber hails new workplace of 'neighbourhoods'

15 Jun 2015

|Suspended ceilings were removed, gaining the workplace an extra 75cm of height|The kitchen acts as a touchdown and meeting area, with metal lockers and a custom-made table|The kitchen acts as a touchdown and meeting area, with metal lockers and a custom-made table|Salvaged cast-iron wall lights (formerly shovels) hang on the exposed columns|The meeting room is encased in aluminium-framed glazing, echoing the look of an old industrial steel door|A 'real' pre-war, industrial, Midtown New York building|"We often create much of the detail of a project ourselves"||

Designers of top NY venues create Midtown office

29 May 2015

1stdibs – the world's most sumptuous office?

21 May 2015

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LinkedIn blocks Google – speaking architecturally

08 May 2015

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Mecanoo's first US project has a 'dutch touch'

08 May 2015

A pink Eileen Gray chair in a suite inspired by a Parisian atelier|Chapter 5, styled as the fictional home of Covell’s daughter|The more feminine Chapter 3 is supposedly Covell’s bohemian Parisian apartment, shared with his lover Claudine, and features softer colours and textures|The first apartment is inspired by George Covell’s early life in Oklahoma|The materials are rustic, utilitarian, with a muted colour palette|“I tend to use more vintage than new; it’s usually better made unless you have a huge budget"|The eclectic kitchen and sun room in the two-bed Chapter 4 suite|Breer hand-painted the upholstery for this sofa herself|Cement tiles by LA firm Kismet have been used throughout|The apartments lie in a 1930s building above the uber-cool Bar Covell in up-and-coming neighbourhood Los Feliz|The entrance is recessed within a brick alcove, so Breer installed a gold door to counteract its anonymity||

LA's Hotel Covell inspired by a fictional muse

30 Apr 2015

BIG & Heatherwick's 'office of the future' for Google

01 Mar 2015

3M's various buildings now overlook a pedestrian area that was once a car park|The plaza planters and walkways are transformed by LED rope lights at dusk|The tangram-inspired design uses 3M's reflective tape, used for road markings|Illuminated ceilings in softly rounded shapes give a retro-futuristic look|Collaboration hubs have touch-screen tables and walls, and soffit display|Streamlined Corian furniture, like the reception desk, features throughout|Bright, pebble-like seating fulfil's 3M's aim to be more informal and less beige|A new steel staircase, one of two inserted to aid circulation between floors||

3M HQ: no sticking to the past

13 Oct 2014

Lovegrove's Anne chair|The Anne chair was inspired by the American courthouse chair|Jephson Robb's Alex sofa|Robb's reductive process saw the Chesterfield buttons reduced to just three|The sofa leg is made of solid wood with a copper band|The classic Chesterfield sofa|Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's Harper chair|The Harper chair is inspired by the image of Americans sitting on rocking chairs on open verandahs|Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's inspiration||

Lovegrove for America's oldest furniture company

20 Sep 2014

Meeting alcoves border the newly installed staircase|Feminine charms: the reception and conference room|School desks were custom powder coated in a yellow hue used for BMW's|Oak floors feature in the high-traffic areas. The furniture is by US firm Poppin|The executive spaces, where desks sit atop pink rugs, separated by curtains|Elaborate archways from a salvage company mark out the boardroom area|Decorative architectural mouldings create the feel of a Parisian apartment|Designer Josef Medellin painted the mural behind the mantelpiece||

Grow Marketing's San Francisco HQ by Josef M Design

02 Sep 2014

The building is an old laboratory research facility, with the loading dock now a lounge area and breakout space|Facebook’s instantly recognisable branding is prominent throughout|Different coloured carpet tiles from Milliken Contract, define the various departments of the building|Conference rooms each have their own style, and were given their names by staff|Staff are encouraged to personalise the office by adding their own artwork|The furniture was recycled from Facebook’s former offices, which were scattered throughout the city|An orange crane, left over from the office’s previous life as a lab, now supports a conference table|Exposed concrete walkways are the roads through this ‘mini city’|Huge expanses of whiteboard in one of the meeting rooms create the mother of all brainstorming hubs||

Facebook's Palo Alto offices by Studio O+A

07 Dec 2009

Did your office interior ever look like this?

Did your office interior ever look like this?

How concern around workplace wellbeing is changing the planning agenda

How concern around workplace wellbeing is changing the planning agenda

Designing for neurodiversity: How to build offices that become incubators of innovation

Designing for neurodiversity: How to build offices that become incubators of innovation