Euro-Trans is a large Polish transport company. Our work on its new Warsaw headquarters began with a phone call... placed when construction was already under way.
The general contractor asked us to step in at a point where the design is normally long since closed. After the first meetings it was clear this was not a cosmetic job. A functional analysis showed that the existing floor plans would not serve the company well: the layout did not match how Euro-Trans actually works. We went back to fundamentals and reworked part of the brief from scratch. The deadline did not move.
Only then came the design. The brief was for a prestigious, elegant office with particular attention to the executive suites — a premium project in every sense: advanced technology, high-grade materials, carefully resolved lighting, and a great deal the user never consciously notices.
None of the private offices is only a private office. Each holds three settings: a workstation, a meeting table, and an informal area for one-to-one conversation. Several open onto a terrace. The room in which a director works in alone in the morning, becomes a meeting room by eleven and a place to receive a client in the afternoon.
One favourite element is the bar tucked discreetly behind the panelling; it appears only when it is needed. Behind all of it we left the raw exposed concrete slab, a deliberate counterpoint to the warm veneers, cream textiles and soft light.
On projects delivered at this pace the outcome depends on how well everyone works together. Client team, Conspace as general contractor, Lobos and Office Plus on furniture.
