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On the money: Bergen's luxury hotel is inspired by Paul Smith and the Beatles

Design

08 Nov 2017

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Penson builds blade-like skyscraper for Korea's tallest building

07 Nov 2017

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The cat's whiskers

06 Nov 2017

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Workspace wellbeing and how it affects our happiness

Design

28 Oct 2017

For once, no one’s suggesting that chance encounters will take place on the stairs|Dichroic window film gives glass walls a shimmering finish|Red Bull has shied away from its corporate colours for the fit out|Three sizes of space, with varying levels of privacy, should provide built-in future flexibility||||||

Red Bull's NY office: cool and calm, not energised

22 Feb 2015

Bespoke plywood and lino desks with striking angular legs The mesh walls link the firm’s office with its industrial purpose|The mesh walls link the firm’s office with its industrial purpose|Expanded aluminium mesh makes for a low-cost way to divide space|Bespoke shelving even makes conveyor-belt parts look good||

Industrial lite for German office

16 Feb 2015

'Concrete' floors are in fact made from carpets to give an industrial feel without the hollow acoustics|A slanted view of Amsterdam's port|Black and white creates drama and visually divides the spaces|Desks and low walls of storage have been custom-made from sandblasted oak|VMX's angled glass facade echoes the wheelhouse of a ship with a nod to the location||

i29's strategic design for Mediaxplain HQ

18 Nov 2014

A lo-fi look comes partly from the fact the fit out is temporary|The Victorian factory and 1980s extension are united by a lot of black paint|Furniture came courtesy of SPC Contracts with desks by Unto This Last|Individual spaces for quiet working|Breathe the creative air of Shoreditch in the courtyards and roof terrace|60p a pop cage lights|Protruding timber door frames match the structural beams and supports in the main office||

Buckley Gray Yeoman's back in black

26 Aug 2014

Sam Wilkinson with the Blown pendent – traditional manufacture meets 3D CAD|Decode's Vessel shade with a groundbreaking Plumen energy-saving bulb|L'arbre de Flonville, a piece of street furniture in Lausanne, Switzerland|Colour and tactility come to the fore in Lexon's Babylon desk accessories|Case's Mantis desk is intended to look good both in the office and at home|Pendola; the whole clock acts as a pendulum, swinging once a second|Lightweight stacking chair Grace, part of a wider outdoor range for Emu|The sturdy-looking Rock chair for Decode works on its own or in groups|&Tradition's Hoof tables have feet that look like giant sharpened pencils|Cloak, an elegantly asymmetrical wood and metal table for Versus||

Profile: bright ideas from Samuel Wilkinson

Opinion

21 May 2014

Inspired by pine forests|A large open-plan meeting space occupies the majority of the first floor|Storage is built in to the length of the wall so as not to block sightines|A limited palette of wood, stone and sand-coloured walls keep it simple|The building's timber skeleton||

VL Office's agricultural chic

13 Apr 2012

Google Engineering's London HQ

19 Mar 2012

Scarlet fever: a staircase-happy atrium is the embodiment of connectivity|Meeting rooms overhang the atrium, with a "pinstripe" motif on the glass|Closed doors were once the norm, but meeting spaces now vary in degree of privacy|Warm tones and lots of wood suggest a more friendly approach to banking||

Macquarie's London HQ

15 Feb 2012

The walkways criss-crossing Adidas HQ give the building its name - Laces|Kinzo's custom-made furniture stores paperwork as well as samples|The building's gentle angles influenced the design of its furniture|Punched-metal uprights in the storage unites create subtle sight-lines|Go-faster furniture: Kinzo's elegantly dynamic angular seating||

Kadawittfeldarchitektur's Adidas office

18 Oct 2011

A gentleman’s -club-style lounge for Dutch agricultural agency ZLTO|The top floor, with its traditional timber roof, hasbeen nabbed by directors|Brickwork and fenestration evokes the Netherlands’ fields of corn|ZLTO retain traditions, such as portraits of past staff, but in a new setting||

New HQ for Zlto by Architekten Cie

15 Sep 2011

Inside OnOffice December: The Leisure Issue, on the future of hospitality

Inside OnOffice December: The Leisure Issue, on the future of hospitality

Super Lyan bar in Amsterdam offers an experimental take on 1950s retro

Super Lyan bar in Amsterdam offers an experimental take on 1950s retro

Exclusive interview with Chilean designer Margarita Talep on her innovative new material

Exclusive interview with Chilean designer Margarita Talep on her innovative new material