Office
Office architecture that isn't an affront, and workspaces and retail architecture that's a sight to behold
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Waugh Thistleton's new London office champions wellbeing
6 Orsman Road, a new office building in east London by Waugh Thistleton, combines flexibility, sustainability and wellbeing in creating a modern workspace to stand the test of time
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Sci-fi meets modern design in this Tokyo studio space
As Tokyo tentitively begins to ease lockdown restrictions, we look ahead to this futuristic office Warp Studio, which combines home comforts with a state-of-the-art workspace
By Daven Wu • Last updated
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Brutalist WHO headquarters extension under construction in Geneva
Visit the construction site of the ongoing extension project at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, designed by architects Berrel Berrel Kräutler; a project that places the landscape at the forefront, while paying tribute to WHO's modernist, Jean Tschumi-designed, original office building
By Stamatina Kousidi • Last updated
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Raise your glass to the world's finest distillery architecture
Get spirited away with these architectural flights of fancy. From Scotland's Speyside to Utah, Dublin and the rolling hills of Hampshire, we travel and explore some of the best recent examples of distillery architecture
By Peter Ranscombe • Last updated
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Architect Richard Parr perfects working from home with his Cotswolds office extension
Cotswolds-based architect Richard Parr has converted a 19th century agricultural building into a modern studio addition for his practice, which is located in the countryside next to his home, in Easter Park Farm
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Take a virtual reality tour of Alvar Aalto's Helsinki studio
Helsinki is betting big on its tech design scene as it looks ahead to a post-COVID world
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Heatherwick Studio’s Little Island takes shape in New York
Heatherwick Studio's Little Island – half way through construction in the water on Manhattan’s southwest riverside in New York City – makes the most out of the hundreds of old wooden piles which stuck out of the Hudson River, to create a landscape that blends public park and performance space
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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An exclusive look at the upcoming Design District at Greenwich Peninsula
London's Greenwich Peninsula is in the process of getting its own Design District, set to launch its curated collection of architectural workspaces in autumn 2020 and featuring bespoke and flexible office building designs by the likes of architects such as 6a, Adam Khan, Architecture 00, Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn, HNNA, Mole Architects and Selgas Cano
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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LABS Collective opens its doors to support emergency services and key workers
LABS Collective offers frontline workers vital spaces at its STAY in Hawley Wharf residence and Camden House in London
By Phoebe Gardner • Last updated
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Sandellsandberg designs a sleek Stockholm office with aluminium
Reflective, corrugated, and layered aluminium transforms this Stockholm office space
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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MoDus Architects designs a tree-hugging tourist office in Northern Italy
A new, sculpturally concrete tourist office in the northern Italian town of Bressanone wraps itself around an existing Platanus tree to a design by South Tyrol based architecture practice MoDus Architects
By Jason Sayer • Last updated
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Mies van der Rohe meets Mad Men at this London office
At One Canada Square in London, The Office Group has brought flexible work space, Peloton bikes, and terrazzo to the financial district
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Amsterdam gains the first Fosbury & Sons venue outside Belgium
Co-working brand Fosbury & Sons launches Prinsengracht, its first ever venue outside of its home country of Belgium, in Amsterdam, located in a historic, redesigned hospital courtesy of interiors studio Going East
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Digital and physical worlds collide at a Brooklyn office designed by Inaba Williams
Designed specifically for intensive digital work at a fast-paced agency, this office has been layered with thick carpets and soft curtains for comfort, while clever angles and reflective surfaces keep it clear-cut – and employees razor sharp
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Canary yellow couches, swooping murals and hanging greens at Victoria’s co-working space, Kwench
By Daven Wu • Last updated
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Fosbury & Sons opens third Brussels co-working space
Brazil meets Wall Street at the sumptuous Fosbury & Sons Albert co-working space in Brussels, where spiral staircases, plants-a-plenty and dark bamboo surfaces enhance office life through comfort and areas that help users focus
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Proctor & Matthews’ designs modular Government housing office in Cambridgeshire
Balancing pre-fabricated, factory production and natural materials, the new workspace for Homes England in Cambridgeshire is the work of London-based architecture studio Proctor & Matthews
By Clare Dowdy • Last updated
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Rooftop farming, earth walls, and art: is this Hong Kong’s most innovative office?
K11 brand founder's new office building in Hong Kong, designed by architectural designers ESKYIU, innovatively combines offices, culture and technology
By Catherine Shaw • Last updated
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Pedro Reyes invites us into his sculptural art studio in Mexico City
A newly built, prefabricated, concrete object with rounded edges in the historical Coyoacán neighbourhood is artist Pedro Reyes' new studio and headquarters in Mexico City
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Welcome to the house of fun: Lego's Billund campus has play at its heart
With an emphasis on play and all the mod-cons of a contemporary office, Lego reveals the first phase of its new Billund campus in Denmark, designed by C.F. Møller Architects
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A timber office at the edge of Paris embraces its users ‘like protective arms'
Architects Atelier Du Pont designs Woody, a new office building for the French public healthcare agency, near the Bois de Vincennes in Paris
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Post-office: hospitality groups blur the lines between workspace and hotel
Hot-desking hots up as hospitality groups, from Soho House to The Hoxton, open dedicated spaces for the peripatetic creative
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees project takes root in Shanghai
By Austin Williams • Last updated
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The Kai Art Center opens in a renovated submarine factory in Tallinn
Tallinn-based KAOS Architects leads a sensitive restoration of an avant garde industrial building by the sea for the new Kai Art Center. Once a submarine-making warehouse for the Russian Tsar, the concrete building with 6m ceiling heights and gracefully arching roof was an ideal spot for the previously nomadic contemporary arts organisation.
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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MOS Studio designs semi-permanent education pavilion in Versailles
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Piercy & Company crafts co-working space in Victorian warehouse for Fora
By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated
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Out of office: coffee and creative small talk with Bill Amberg
Bodil Blain, Wallpaper* columnist and founder of Cru Kafé, shares coffee and creative small talk with leading figures from the worlds of art, architecture, design, and fashion. This week, it’s British leather craftsman Bill Amberg, who is set to launch his second range of digitally printed hides at London Design Festival
By Bodil Blain • Last updated