Office architecture and design

Office design: the latest trends in workspace architecture

Corporate identity is expressed through workspace design. Draw inspiration from the latest design trends and evolving ideas across the realm of office design. Attract the most eager millennials and accommodate the most seasoned experts into your team. Work it.

Inside the Dyson dynasty’s Mayfair office

A modest Georgian property, in a terrace of similar structures in London’s Mayfair, conceals much behind its elegant brick facade. For this is the private office of the Dyson family, Britain’s most successful modern industrial dynasty. Intended as the nerve...

Japanese and Italian design combine in Chicago office interior by Alvisi Kirimoto

In Chicago, on the 32nd floor of a skyscraper in the West Loop, Rome-based architectural firm Alvisi Kirimoto has designed a floor of office space for a private client’s headquarters. Combining Italian and Japanese design principles, Alvisi Kirimoto’s trademark approach...

Midcentury modernist Maxwell Starkman’s LA studio converted into an office by 1100 Architect

In Los Angeles, 1100 Architect has converted a midcentury design studio dating back to 1958 into a contemporary office to house creative design and media company, Brand New School. While the original building by Maxwell Starkman (1921-2003) has been updated and...

Design-conscious co-working spaces around the world

Modern workspaces must be adaptable and ergonomically sound. Cast iron, plywood and hanging plants are also requisite. Dispatching from creative companies and desirable desk spaces, we track down the designers responding to our evolving working behaviours. Are you sitting comfortably...

Divercity Architects and Carole Topin design advertising agency like a ‘creative engine’

Communication and the exchange of ideas are key to modern working; especially in a creative field such as advertising. So when London- and Athens-based architecture practice Divercity and designer Carole Topin embarked on redesigning an interior within an existing 1970s building...

MoreySmith designs a global HQ for Dunhill that embodies the brand through the details

MoreySmith has smoothly embedded a contemporary global headquarters for British luxury goods brand Dunhill into the layered fabric of the historic Mayfair neighbourhood – just a stone’s throne from Selfridges on North Audley street. Staged across two floors of a...

Fosbury & Sons Boitsfort in Brussels brings home comforts into the workplace

Sinking into a deep sofa, surrounded by candles and ceramic vases filled with flowers, is not something you might associate with a hard day at work, but that’s why co-working company Fosbury & Sons’ ideas are just so radical. Serge...

HOK unveils biophilic Silicon Valley campus Central + Wolfe

Knowhow Shop’s micro-office on wheels in Los Angeles

In the Highland Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles, architects Kagan Taylor and Justin Rice of Knowhow Shop have designed and built a new office for their design studio in their backyard. Named ‘Lighthouse’, the project is a micro-building that is a place for work...

Frank Gehry’s latest office building at Facebook’s Menlo Park HQ opens

A new office building at Facebook’s headquarters at Menlo Park by Frank Gehry has opened. Named MK21, the office building was designed and built in less than 18 months and has a focus on sustainability. The building is an extension to MK20, a...

L’Oréal’s new Paris HQ designs wellness into the workday

From Google’s expansive Silicon Valley campus (where it’s bring-your-dog-to-work-day, everyday), to Lego’s Denmark Office with slides instead of lifts, companies are paying closer attention to how design and space influence their employees’ experience, and therefore, the company’s productivity. The new...