Office

Amid the heavy rains of a typhoon in Hong Kong last July, we were very lucky to have had a few moments of clean sky for the photoshoot of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects’ project, 18 King Wah Road. Located in North Point, the eastern district of Hong Kong Island, 18 King Wah Road is a new 23-​story office building in Hong Kong and second commission for Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. 18 King Wah Road commands a striking view of Victoria Harbor and Kowloon Bay, and to the west, PCPA’s iconic International Financial Centre marks the skyline.In contrast to the density of its urban neighbors, the design of PCPA’s building is airy and buoyant. The triple-​height Y-​shaped columns that support the base of the tower deliver an exciting visual on... More

In recent years, Querétaro has become an economic hub offering great opportunities in Mexico’s Bajío region. The high rate of business development has enabled small and medium-size enterprises to make progress. Thanks to the particular conditions of this new scenario, co-working spaces have become the most viable option for this kind of business.Mixco seeks to function as a multidisciplinary working space where small businesses can rent their own private offices, while sharing a single working space with the aim of integrating different working methodologies.The project is located on the third floor of an existing four-story office building, each with a rentable floor area of 505 m2. The building has a private parking garage below street le... More

The Architect’s Studio, located in Ahmedabad, is designed as a place of work for a design firm. Located on the fourth floor in a relatively old residential building, the two penthouses were used as an architectural office and a residence. Due to multiple renovations over the years, the existing penthouses became a mess of jumbled walls, leading to poor ingress of natural light. The design intervention consequently undertaken consisted of the existing premises being stripped bare and rebuilt with minimal transparent partitions – this was a conscious decision to enable visual linkages throughout the space.The Studio occupies a site area of 1750 Sq.Ft. To accommodate the requirements of the growing firm, an uninterrupted space was created and... More

Interior design: Ramūnas ManikasSignage design: Ramūnas ManikasLocation: Birutės g. 22-314, Klaipėda, LithuaniaArea: 79,82m²Project year: 2015Photography: Ramūnas Manikas The store of manicure care tools “Mani.lt” was set up in a new building after dividing the area into two parts. There is the store in one part, and office, kitchen, warehouse and toilet in the other. The areas are divided by sliding glass partition. The store’s emphasis is glued timber strips ceiling installed sideward to the walls. Laminate flooring is installed the same way sideward. The goods shelves are designed with a certain arranged rhythm, of different levels, with up and downs. All these optical solutions are aimed at creating an impression of exclusive and d... More

Interior design: Ramūnas Manikas, Valdas KontrimasSignage design: Ramūnas ManikasLocation: Danės g. 47, Klaipėda, LithuaniaArea; 256,75m²Project year: 2015Photography: Ramūnas Manikas The office of the company “Osteca” is based in the old former warehouse building. The building is well-preserved, so it was decided not to disguise time proved architecture elements while fitting out the interior. Red brick walls are left and polished additionally; old roof carcass elements are renewed. While creating new elements, those were coordinated with the old ones. Only few dormers were installed additionally. Joint reception, employees’, managers’ offices and meeting hall areas were set up in three rooms, parted by old red brick walls. A warehous... More

Project descriptionHigh-class punkStudio Perspektiv, a Prague based team of architects, designed a brand new office for the technological & consulting company Trask solutions a.s., a long term innovations partner of big companies and institutions. In the beginning, there was a demanding, courageous client with a vision, and a challenging building in Prague's developing business district Pankrác. In the end, there is an experience. Difficult to describe. A perfect storm of raw materials, a high-class punk. Good breakfast is everything Trask's rich company culture directly influenced many important decisions in the course of the project. The power of tradition and community is clearly visible in the arrangement of lounges a... More

Located in one of the main streets of Leblon, this project is characterized by a color palette applied in different textures, bringing together a light and cozy atmosphere to the corporate building. The floor in slate tiles was applied on the ground floor, while on the other storeys the same slate appears in regular tiles, in the working rooms, hallways and services.The irregular slate flooring appears again on the rooftop, which holds a solarium with a panoramic view on the city. Inside the building a little shaft brings illumination to the hallways and the offices, besides allowing cross ventilation and creates an enclosed garden on the ground floor. Its facade, strong and simple stands out from the neighbors without being overwhelmi... More

Designing offices and corporate spaces can always be an interesting topic. The way we plan these areas defines a lot of how we work. More

Dixy company is part of Mercury group of companies. The new office is locatetd in Moscow in Mercury City Tower and occupies about 4000 sq.m. DIXY Group owns and runs many stores in Russia more than 20 years, after launching a wholesaler in 1992. Today, DIXY is one of the Russia’s largest national food retailer. For Dixy company this new office means new way of working, more open and transparent, more communicative.That is why office plan links individual private spaces through the shared common spaces, thereby creating more casual interaction amongst the staff and visitors.The open pleasant rest areas and cafeteria are found facing the facades. Lights and positive are the main factors of this space. But it also has space allocatio... More

The Client is construction company specialising in restoration of historical buildings and significant architectural monuments. The main challenge for the architects was to demonstrate within the interior design the mayor achievements of the company and to create a kind of portfolio, inspiring employees, clients and partners of the company. Another goal was to provide a large number of employees with comfortable working environment while keeping the room light and spacious. The idea and realisation. The architects featured the main activities of the client such as architecture, construction and restoration. The architectural elements like cornices, сhapiters and other fragments of the classic order, mosaics and portals are depictur... More

She knows history (not just her own) and has a good relationship with it. She lets herself into the excitement of today but keeps being proud about her old treasures too. there is a square. There is more, but this is the nicest. There is a chapel, a school, a printing house. It’s human, loveable, and good to arrive to. The printing house hasn’t been used for a long time, it was abandoned and in ruins. Just saveable. The town also loves the square. The local architect, general contractor and developer working with us all treated it with love. Everything that could be used was cleansed, reinterpreted, replaced with new elements, prepared for today's excitement and functions. We made a new one from the old one. The empty spaces became ali... More

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Dreams + Necessity + Available resources = Project Solving the basic equation of materializing dreams through a bounded Budget, we initiated the construction process of our architectural office. The exercise begins with the experimental transformation process of materials, such as earth, Wood and glass, configuring them between two existing trees: a flame tree, that stays outside but framed, and a guavirá tree, that stands in the middle of the space to share our company.The 30-cm rammed earth walls hold the weight of the roof, resting in only 20 cm of its width, exploiting the structural qualities of this material. All of the furniture and doors are made of recycled wooden forms used in the concrete slab that covers the offic... More

The Delfland Water Authority is located in a historical building on the Oude Delft: the Gemeenlandshuis. The monumental part was built in 1505 as a house for Jan de Huyter. The sandstone facade was unique for that time and it was one of the few buildings to survive the 1536 city fire. More than 100 years later, the house came into the hands of the Delfland Water Authority.Over time the Water Authority has been extended to include several adjacent monumental buildings, and in 1975 a new building on the Phoenixstraat was added. In 2014, the Water Authority decided to revise its housing strategy. The most important task was to make what was once a fragmentary complex, a whole and transform it into a pleasant, flexible working environment that... More