Office design

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about office design

Project • By Eleni Karimali Architect • Offices

Irini Sarri Law Office

Irini Sarri, a lawyer who had already been running her own practice for five years, wanted a new office that radiates feminine strength, far from the heavy, traditional law office everyone knows. The experience begins in the building's corridor. A dark, sculpted portal steps out from the wall, outlined by a halo of light, while fine lines of light trace the opening of the custom entrance door. At its centre stands a tall custom pull handle, and beside it an illuminated sign carries the office's monogram. Standing before it, a visitor already senses that they are about to cross the threshold of a truly special place, and prepares for it. Inside, the palette of taupe, gold, cypress green and walnut sets a composed, confident tone, and every... More

Project • By 100CGI Studio • Offices

Office Fit-Out Tender in Reading

Visualization by 100CGI Studio for Oktra South's bid on a 1,500 sq ft office fit-out at Brickworks in Reading. The tender was a three-way pitch; 5 views were delivered in 21 days, and the contract was won. 100CGI Studio 100CGI Studio A tender room does not need to know where the desks go. It needs to know what the place will feel like on a Tuesday morning. The set therefore works through the scheme as rooms rather than layouts, so the panel judges the outcome instead of the plan. 100CGI Studio 100CGI Studio Small schemes gain the most from this. A handful of strong views costs less than the value of standing out against two other bidders, and every one of them arrives with a floor plan. The bid that arrives with the fi... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Cityspace NOVO

CitySpace is one of the leading Polish flexible office operators. NOVO, its space between Jerozolimskie Avenue and Nowogrodzka Street in central Warsaw, covers 2,800 m² across two floors, with 328 workstations. The design project for NOVO won the European Property Award for the Best Office Interior category for Poland. The project had to reconcile three demands that usually pull against each other. - design, because in flexible offices people choose with their eyes. - economics, because every square metre has to earn its keep.- sustainability, because the most valuable material was the fit-out already in place. Most projects manage only two of the three. Ewelina Lekka Lekka   Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka City... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Ten Square Games

Ten Square Games is one of Poland's largest mobile game developers, known for Fishing Clash and Hunting Clash. Its Wrocław headquarters in the City One building had grown across two floors, close to 1,700 m² in total. This project was the first in Poland in which the embedded carbon footprint of a newly created office interior was actually calculated. The design ran from the outset with one measurable target: the lowest possible embedded carbon. Existing materials were recovered and reused wherever they still performed, and emissions were monitored alongside the construction rather than estimated afterwards. In total, 38.8 tonnes of CO₂ emissions were avoided. Ten Square Games Ten Square Games Ten Square Games Ten Sq... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Universal-Investment

Universal-Investment is a German financial services company and one of Europe's largest fund platforms. Its Kraków office occupies 3,000 m² in the High5ive building, with 300 workstations across two floors. Visitors arrive into a generous, café-like space with a wide choice of places to work, talk and meet — a deliberate inversion of the usual arrangement, where a reception is somewhere you wait rather than somewhere anything happens. Conference rooms and quiet, focused settings sit immediately alongside. The social areas were placed where the windows look out over the historic centre of Kraków. Fotomohito Fotomohito Fotomohito Fotomohito The hardest part of the design was reconciling tw... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Euro-Trans

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. Daniel Remian Daniel Remian Daniel Remian Only then came the design. The brief was for a prestigious, elegant office with particular attention to the e... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Haier Polska

The Haier Polska project was genuinely new territory for us, both in the functional challenge it set and in how we had to think about the space. It is an office and a showroom in one building, and neither function was allowed to compromise the other. Przemek Blechman Przemek Blechman The centrepiece is a showroom for two brands, Haier and Candy. That meant two adjacent kitchen zones, visually distinct but reading as a coherent whole — and one very concrete problem: fitting more than 70 appliances into clean, well-resolved cabinetry. Each zone carries its own visual character and states its brand clearly, and the two can be opened up and combined for presentations, meetings, social media shoots, or simply a quiet coffee and... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Alsendo

Alsendo is one of Central Europe's fastest-growing technology companies, a leader in e-commerce logistics. Rapid growth pushed it out of its old premises and into a larger headquarters in central Warsaw. The brief was one line, and deceptively hard: modern, but not cold. Most offices manage one or the other. Chrome and glass deliver modern and read as clinical; warmth usually arrives at the cost of looking dated. Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka Ewelina Lekka We ran the brand through the architecture rather than applying it to the walls. Alsendo's purple moves across painted surfaces, wallpapers, carpets and upholstery, so the office is recognisably theirs from any angle. The warmth comes from the other direct... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Ochnik Development

Ochnik Development builds luxury residential property in Warsaw and Łódź. The company grew out of Ochnik, a Polish fashion and leather goods brand, and it carries that background into its buildings: classic elegance, high-grade finishes, materials chosen to last. Its new office occupies the ground floor of a residential building the developer had just completed on Dzielna Street in central Warsaw. It is also the company's sales office. That set an unusual condition for the design: the space had to work as a workplace and, at the same time, as the most persuasive possible argument for what the developer sells — an interior coherent with the building above it. Budzik Studio Budzik Studio Budzik Studio Budzik St... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Fulfilio

The Fulfilio headquarters in Łubna represents a bold departure from traditional logistics facility design. Rather than treating office space as an afterthought to warehouse operations, this project demonstrates how thoughtful design can create a cohesive, inspiring workplace that bridges the gap between corporate headquarters and industrial functionality. Located adjacent to a major logistics center near Warsaw, the 1,200 square meter office challenges preconceptions about “warehouse-adjacent” workspaces. Instead of relegating office functions to a separate building or compromising on design quality, Fulfilio opted to create a democratic, green-filled environment where management sits alongside warehouse operations. Ewelina... More

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Offices

Squadforce Tech Limited | Costa Rica

Squadforce Tech Limited is a Canadian-based technology company dedicated to optimizing and enhancing contact center and customer service operations through artificial intelligence tools. To establish its presence in Costa Rica, the company required a collaborative headquarters featuring multifunctional spaces and an aesthetic that clearly reflected the local environment, thereby distinguishing it from its offices in other countries. The project—executed entirely by Contract Workplaces—was developed within a 489 m² space at the Escazú Village mixed-use complex. The building is notable for having achieved LEED Gold certification in the "Core and Shell" category, a distinction that validates its efficient and sustainab... More

Project • By Fruit Orchard • Offices

Azan

A new office for Azan, a Polish distributor of premium pet food, isn't located in a city centre or an office building. It was built next to the company's own warehouse, in a logistics park near Radom, in central Poland. Offices like this are usually the poor cousins of the workplace world: a few rooms bolted onto a hall, done to a minimum. There are thousands of them across Europe. We agreed with the client at the very start that this one would give people the same experience we design into the best city buildings. Daniel Remian Daniel Remian Daniel Remian Daniel Remian The constraint was floor area. A single space had to hold desks for both office and warehouse staff, meeting and training rooms, a canteen, a coffee p... More

Project • By Deform Studio • Offices

Office with Vibrant Accents in the Heart of Minsk

This project presented a thrilling challenge for our team. Located in the very heart of Minsk, this office for a Belarusian company was initially a compartmentalized, outdated maze of small rooms that completely failed to reflect the status and ambition of our clients. Katerina Samoilovich From Cluttered Rooms to a Blank Canvas We chose not to compromise and completely demolished the existing layout. Within a month, we were standing before a true "blank canvas." Our primary objective was to blur the boundaries between office and home, creating an environment where the absolute comfort of a residential space seamlessly integrates with high-end business technologies.  Katerina Samoilovich Layout We developed an entirely new... More

Project • By Setter Architects • Offices

L’Oréal Israel

The design of the new offices for L’Oréal Israel opened the door to a rich world of content, values, and inspiration, one where aesthetics, innovation, sustainability and company culture converge to shape a dynamic workplace experience. The project reflects a meaningful shift in the organization’s work environment: moving away from a traditional room-based layout toward a continuous and fluid open-plan office that encourages collaboration, flexibility, and a more connected way of working. Amit Gosher Amit Gosher Amit Gosher The design concept draws inspiration directly from L’Oréal’s beauty products. The space translates the visual and tactile qualities of makeup into architecture. The s... More

Project • By Bean Buro • Offices

Palatino Hospitality

“Palatino’s new workplace combines luxury, comfort, and nature to nurture creativity and well-being. Through close collaboration with our client, we have designed a sanctuary where employees can thrive in a space that aligns with Palatino’s brand ethos.” — Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, co-founder of Bean Buro “Inspired by the beauty of nature and the world of Palatino, our design seamlessly blends elements of hospitality and luxury. A warm and earthy colour palette sets the tone for a cosy and inviting atmosphere, while carefully selected materials, custom furniture, and tasteful accessories contribute to an overall sense of refined elegance.” — Lorène Faure, co-founder of Bean Buro Bean B... More