Adaptive workplace

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Project • By Tétris Design x Build South Africa • Offices

Warner Music Africa

When Warner Music Africa tasked Tétris with designing more than an office—they wanted a workspace embodying African musical and cultural heritage while driving commercial growth. As Warner Music and Africori grew, they needed a unified space that could embody their shared mission: advancing African music on the global stage. Tétris together JLL delivered an integrated solution that transformed this challenge into opportunity. The real estate team identified and secured premises capable of housing both entities. Tétris then designed The Culture Collective, a cultural workspace design that merges African identity with commercial music business. PDS managed construction and project delivery, ensuring the building fi... More

Project • By R & G Architects International + DH • Offices

Media co-working space

Designed for HT Media Ltd., one of India's premier media organisations, this project reimagines the traditional office as a collaboration-cum-coworking hub built entirely around Activity-Based Working (ABW). Rather than assigning fixed desks to fixed tasks, the design offers a spectrum of settings — focused workstation bays, high-table zones for quick huddles, soft lounge seating for informal conversations, enclosed meeting rooms, and a café counter that doubles as a social anchor — allowing teams to choose the setting that matches the task at hand. RGDH RGDH RGDH RGDH RGDH A warm material palette of exposed brick, timber slats, and bold accent tones (ochre, red, and terracotta) ties the varied z... More

Project • By The Room Architecture and Design • Offices

Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization office in Phnom Penh is a contemporary extension to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries compound. Carefully planned to sit within its context rather than stand apart from it, the two-story concrete structure responds to the familiar gabled rooflines of the surrounding government buildings through a double-sided gabled roof and a continuous shaded walkway. Bruce Vincentiis The building is organized around a simple concrete volume where the shaded perimeter walkway forms a protective layer between the exterior compound and the interior workspaces. This walkway supports light, views, and cross-ventilation along the facades. Enclosed offices, meeting rooms, and support spaces are grou... More