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Amos & Amos: avoiding the industrial cliché

Industrial-style workplaces have been subject to more than a few pastiche attempts in recent years, but thanks to architects Amos…

Interiors

13 Oct 2014

"It's not a game, it's football"|A white-striped greenway winds around the open-plan office and ends in football nets|Arrows and marks on the floor refer to the 'team playbook'|The canteen contains foosball tables and scarves from various football teams|The mini football arena for events, presentations and watching matches from across the world|||

Onefootball HQ: a football fanatic's fantasy

Onefootball's eponymous app represents the world's leading football community, connecting over 14 million football fans in 200 countries. As such,…

Interiors

06 Oct 2014

Graphic artwork by Artemij Brutov greets staff at the entrance|Citrus-bright curtains screening off the meeting rooms provide hits of colour|Bare brick walls and exposed brickwork and concrete contrast with the glossy white floor|Bespoke upholstery turns the deep windowsills into extra working space|Glazed meeting rooms are given more presence with a deep timber overhang|Inblum custom-designed much of the furniture, including the desks|Desks are at the perimeter, with meeting spaces at the core|Triangular shelving units hold personal mementoes from staff|A puzzle of pendant lights are attached to a wire frame on the kitchen ceiling||

Fashion house becomes Wix's Lithuaniun HQ

When international IT firm Wix wanted a contemporary fit out for its new offices in Lithuania, the go-to guys in…

Interiors

02 Oct 2014

Haptic designs HQ for Oslo's oldest shipbuilders

Aker Brygge, Oslo's old shipbuilding zone, was gentrified in the 1980s, turning it into a busy waterfront shopping, office and…

Interiors

30 Sep 2014

The orange glass porch designed to submerge visitors in a "warm, visionary world"|The mirrored reception desk reflects the chequered flooring, creating the illusion that the pattern continues|The open black stairway that allows light to filter through the space|The table in the black meeting room curls up "like a tongue" and continues up the wall with a large screen embedded in it|Each room is painted a different colour to reflect its use and create its own atmosphere|Yellow is used in the 'concentration' areas|The blue of the meeting rooms supports clear and productive thinking|A strip light placed at a jaunty angle|The floor is covered in bespoke carpet referencing the timber of the old floors|The top floor holds the 'treehouse' for relaxation|Formal areas are given a more subtle colour palette||

Surreal office design for a historic house

Dutch designer Maurice Mentjens' office design for creative agency Born05 creates a 'journey through time', balancing historical features with modern…

Interiors

04 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

Hoping to channel the ambience of a cosy Parisian loft apartment, interior designer Josef Medellin approached the San Francisco office of…

Interiors

02 Sep 2014

The indoor plaza is situated in an old storage room beneath a government building|The plaza contains a range of seating options and breakout spaces|The neutral palette is lifted by slashes of green|The cafe and meeting 'shed' a clad in pale wood|Silver birch trunks act as narrow pillars throughout the space||

Cube designs indoor plaza to look like a park

Dutch practice Cube Architecten has designed a multifunctional indoor plaza in Amsterdam that recreates the "peace and playfulness of a…

Interiors

28 Aug 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

Gone are the days when working in London's Shoreditch entailed a dirt-poor YBA's studio or Nathan Barley-esque squat-come-spaceship. While the…

Interiors

26 Aug 2014

Vitra's DCW chairs and Polder sofas populate the impressive entrance space|A spacious walkway divides the workspace and the building's core|The mismatched tiles are also used in the enclosed meeting booths|Extra breakout areas have been squeezed in under the barrel-vaulted ceiling|Glass, steel and timber reflect H+K's serious corporate side|Brass lamps hang above the bar, which is clad in textural raw concrete|While mismatched tiles add colour and pattern it's not "cheesy branding"||

BDG designs Hill+Knowlton Strategies HQ

Avid readers might remember this space from onoffice 76, published last July, when it was fresh from being revamped by BuckleyGrayYeoman…

Interiors

15 Aug 2014

A conference that opens up to create a stage for events|As well as renting workspace by day, week or month, Makeshift hosts events and classes in the space so the design needed to be highly flexible|Phone booths offer privacy within the open space|Wall graphics and a terracotta-pink, hexagonal table lend character to a meeting area|Mismatched furniture in a breakout area|The space retains the "scars" left by loading dock when the building was a pencil factory|From a distance the tables look finished, but up close fasteners and seams are visible|The communal kitchen space|Makeshift Society Brooklyn is the company's second workspace, which follows Makeshift Society San Francisco, created in 2012|The bookcase is concealed behind the conference cube, creating a quiet area|The solid maple entry counter has been designed without “unnecessary angles or arbitrary shapes”||

Makeshift Society Brooklyn by Dash Marshall

Dash Marshall transforms an old pencil factory into a co-working space for Makeshift Society Brooklyn You might wonder what connects…

Interiors

13 Aug 2014

A bronze-lined staircase for "hip-hop's first billionaire"|A large-scale Iwan Baan aerial in the engineering and R&D department|Corners are cut out to create brainstorming zones|The central café for coffee pick up throughout the day is in the core of the interior|The blue courtyard has several smaller conference and project rooms connected to it|The main lobby with a Roll & Hill chandelier|A breakout area in the all-red corridor|Meeting room overlooking the blue courtyard|Conference room with custom wallpaper by Bestor Architecture|Dutch photographer Iwan Baan's aerial murals of the founders' neighbourhoods|A second listening bar with David Geckeler's Nerd bar stools||

Beats by Dre avoids Apple's all-white aesthetic

Completed a matter of days before Apple acquired Beats by Dre for $3m, Bestor Architecture's design for the music streaming…

Interiors

11 Aug 2014

The second and third floors are painted orange and yellow respectively, with a turquoise stairwell|The formal marble counter is set off by colour-blocked magazine images on the wall behind|A giant clock with colourful toys brightens up the reception|The dorm rooms are kept simple with white walls and blonde wood to maximise space|The modernist facade was retained|Vibrant colours distinguish the stairwell and corridors||

Supermachine creates "Batman hostel"

The Yim Huai Khwang hostel in Bangkok, Thailand, required local studio Supermachine to create a fresh new look while retaining most…

Interiors

05 Aug 2014

A "Tetris mountain" enlivens the larger play room|The kids can interact and climb on the soft cubes|The room for visual arts focuses on curved organic shapes and vibrant colours|The design is meant to transport visitors to a "dreamlike reality"|The smaller playroom features a soft green carpet that curves up onto the walls|The corridors connect to the various rooms through curved yellow arches|The corridors connect to the various rooms through curved yellow arches|Children can go to the reading room for academic support, to reading and watch films and cartoons|Colour psychology is used to free children's creativity||

Kalorias Children's Space by Estúdio Amatam, Portugal

Shape and colour formed the basis of Estúdio Amatam's playful design for the Kalorias Children's Space in Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras, Portugal Portugal-based…

Interiors

05 Aug 2014