www.unow.fr is an online course platform for professionals, helping companies with simple and efficient training for their employees. When they moved to a historical central Paris building, they hired workspace design team Yemanja to create a work environment that brings the 350-year-old atmosphere of the building and the next generation online training startup together. It was named the TECH Academy.

Academy : from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named. A society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field.

Le Marais district in Paris is filled with old paved street where one can still hear the coach drivers’ whips echoing on 200 years old boutiques. There, dust on the counter is heritage, and big, mysterious wooden doors are gateways to memory lane. There is one doorat rue Chapon (Chapon St.) that opens on a magnificent hôtel particulier that once belonged to Joseph Dorat, secretary to Louis the 14th, the Sun King.

More than 350 years later after its 1.0 version, the Dorat Hotel leaps forward and its knowledge is made to serve the cause of the 2.0 world, for a team that everyday makes the 2.0 world serve the cause of knowledge.

Inside these historic walls, modern desks are meddling with imposing, old bookshelves and period wall padding and mirrors. Laser cut wood logos, bright color walls and state of the art video production equipment found a home in this big, old, beautiful building. A new era for the Hotel Dorat, a new home for Unow.