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Left to right: onoffice's former editor James McLachlan, Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd|Edge, a table masquerading as a desk. Or perhaps the other way around|||||

onoffice in conversation with PearsonLloyd

Events

05 May 2015

Elliot Brooks (l) and Dan Ziglam (r)|Wire lighting, a Corner chair and a Plex sideboard|Woody, an upholstered bench with the look of a felled tree, chimes with a vogue for temporary perching spots for the office|Love chairs in Manchester Central Library|Massed ranks of Tyneside loungers, designed by David Irwin specially for the Tyneside Cinema|The Raw Spun pendant, Harvey sofa & Laptop Table for mobile working|Working Girl is an extensive range of stools and chairs with a utility aesthetic|The Form chair was one of Deadgood’s first products|The just-released Knurled rug, which mimics an industrial textured finish in soft wool||

Deadgood – a byword for great British design

People

05 May 2015

Y-columns reference Blackpool’s steely landmarks – its tower, piers and rollercoasters|A separate entrance to the council’s is used by other tenants|Illuminated panels inspired by a sandy beach, or rippling sea|Illuminated panels inspired by a sandy beach, or rippling sea|Angular steel fins on the south-facing sides reduce solar gain|Staff from seven previous offices are now in one workplace|Vertical lines of fritted glass break up the facade’s expanse|Vertical lines of fritted glass break up the facade’s expanse|An internal courtyard offers outdoor seating for the workforce|An internal courtyard offers outdoor seating for the workforce||

AHR's Blackpool council HQ marks city reinvention

17 Apr 2015

De Lucchi in his Milan office with the model for The Walk, his installation for the Salone|Designed in 1982 at the height of Memphis mania, Lido clashes both colours and stylistic references in quintessential postmodern style|De Lucchi and Ettore Sottsass created the Icarus office system for Olivetti Synthesis in the early 1980s|Flat, compact (for the early 1990s) and with a colour screen, Olivetti’s Echos 44 Colour also boasted an unusual pink casing|Il Briccolone, a bookcase made for Riva 1920 from old briccole, the marker posts sunk into the canals of Venice|A sketch for a light; the finished product is a single piece of blown glass that comes in two sizes, called Fata and Fatina|Georgia’s Batumi Law Court, sharing some design DNA with the Il Briccolone bookcase|Tblisi’s ministry of internal affairs, a jelly-like building that sits on its own moat to enhance its feeling of weightlessness|Il Tronco, an office building in Pforzheim, Germany; its pinched-in sides make the plan different on every floor|The Sangirolamo bookcase and desk, originally designed for Olivetti in 1991, sit in De Lucchi’s own office|The Walk has a looping bridge that connects and offers vantage points over four workzones|The Walk has a looping bridge that connects and offers vantage points over four workzones|Tolomeo Decentrata: a ‘decentralised’ ceiling light for Artemide with the flexibility of a task light|The Norma chair, designed by De Lucchi for Alias in 2009||

Michele De Lucchi: Milan's man of the moment

People

16 Apr 2015

The building is split between archives (left) and offices (right)|The larger of the two volumes, a single-clad box, houses the archaeological exhibits, ancient documents, paintings, tithe maps and other journals of record|A slither of metal links the two buildings and adds interest to the overall structure|Shingle-cladding on the archive building|Aluminium louvres adjacent to the windows dampen road noise|In contrast to its other half, the office interiors are light and airy|Skylights in the three-storey atrium|Skylights in the three-storey atrium|The thermally isolated repository has perfect condition|The thermally isolated repository has perfect condition|The thermally isolated repository has perfect condition||

Passivhaus building for council archives

15 Mar 2013

Office for kids: furniture for dynamic learning

Design

01 Apr 2015

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Emanuele Garosci's G Rough Hotel in Rome

15 Apr 2015

The university cited Google’s innovative workplaces as a model for the Knowledge Dock|Oversized graphics in bold colours have made the 15-year-old building a more enticing place to visit|Students want quality facilities or they will move on, says Gensler|Graphics connect the two floors via the stairwell and used that visual language to differentiate floors|"It is not just about where you are located on a league table – it is about providing an adequate student experience"|The project was as much about connecting space as it was people|The project was as much about connecting space as it was people|Shared working spaces are distinctly businesslike in look|Colourful furniture tie in with the bold graphics||

Gensler's latest uni project draws on TMT office design

03 Mar 2015

Josef Kaiser, heading up the Vitra's Swiss office|Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec's Workbays offer an alternative to the cubicle||

Q&A: Vitra's Josef Kaiser talks to onoffice

People

08 Mar 2015

Gerard Taylor at Orangebox’s unfinished Clerkenwell showroom extension|The discordant form of Quasi-modo, designed with Daniel Weil for Anthology Quartett|As a student, Taylor tried to avoid traditional notions of form, following function instead arranging primary forms to produce colourful and decorative objects|Developed from Taylor’s student work, the beanpole-like form of Piccadilly remains in production|As a student, Taylor tried to avoid traditional notions of form, following function instead arranging primary forms to produce colourful and decorative objects|Perth was the final piece designed in 1986 as part of a travelling Memphis exhibition that toured Europe and the US|A prolific sketcher, the volume of Taylor’s portfolio landed him a job with Ettore Sottsass|The Celo work table, also for Orangebox, has a storage bin beneath its slide-back top|Neeky, a distinctive chair from the Network Landscapes range; the high back acts as an acoustic control|Avi, shown here with a wire base, is a lounge chair with optional hood|Ara, a product for Orangebox that was the first European task chair to attain Cradle to Cradle accreditation|Bernhardt’s Wave table features a timber curve that swoops from the tabletop to the floor|AD-31 seating, from the Away From The Desk range; here, two of the three-pronged seats have been placed together|Orangebox’s Away From The Desk system features collaborative furniture in all its forms, from pods to benches|Away From The Desk also includes snug high-backed booths that are compatible with technology|The simple angular form of Hella has a domestic flavour|The cavernous Habitat in Croydon, one of ten Taylor-designed stores|Habitat Hamburg: Taylor picked up the retailer as a client in the 1990s when it was headed up by Vittorio Radice||

Gerard Taylor on the Orangebox reinvention

People

18 Feb 2015

Directors Oliver Richards, John McRrae and Richard Warwick|A blown-up quote from a satisfied client adorns the office wall|Orms’ own studio in Oliver's Yard, Old Street|Orms’ own studio includes meeting rooms with sliding glass doors|Orms’ own studio includes meeting rooms with sliding glass doors|Orm's studio – lighting|Careful attention to detail is key to the practice's work||Waxed steel walls lend a monumental feel to Stephen Street’s imposing reception area|The science block features a stone colonnade topped by an anodised aluminium-clad ‘jewel box’|Completed last year, Destination Science is a new addition to Uppingham School in Rutland|Uppingham School's new science block||

Orms: architects on top form

24 Feb 2015

Visitors walk under a cantilevered section to access the inner ring|Nearly 580,000 names are engraved on the coated steel panels|A lateral shape counters the verticality of the adjacent basilica|The memorial sits next to France’s largest military cemetery||

Philippe Prost's Ring of Remembrance in France

02 Feb 2015

Despite adding to the green space, this underground hotel on Green Belt land, by ReardonSmith Architects, was still rejected by planners||

Peter Murray: Is London's Green Belt overprotected?

04 Feb 2015

Co-working climbs the corporate ladder

30 Jan 2015

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