Open-plan office

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Project • By Cimaise Architecture • Offices

Pilot Transformation of a Collaborative Workplace

In downtown Montreal, a major office fit-out transforms several existing floors into a collaborative, hybrid work environment. Spread across three levels, the project rethinks areas previously organized as rows of enclosed offices and cubicles, adapting them to new ways of working that combine in-person and remote collaboration. Thomas Miau Thomas Miau The floors are largely opened up to create generous, light-filled spaces with views toward the downtown skyline, Old Montreal, the port and the river. A sequence of meeting rooms, flexible collaboration spaces, individual enclaves, focus areas and informal living zones with kitchenettes is woven between these open work areas, offering a calm but clearly legible gradient of uses. C... More

News • News • 18 May 2023

Milan's Open 336 presents an extroverted architecture focused on well-being in the office environment

In Viale Sarca, Milan, the Open 336 project by Park Associati offers modern and functional offices that incorporate a reinterpretation of the industrial identity of the surrounding neighborhood. This reinterpretation of industrial history is sensitive to its context while integrating sustainable building technologies and putting forth a contemporary architectural twist.  Lorenzo Zandri Situated in Milan's largely industrial Biococca District, the surrounding architecture features a series of large early twentieth-century production plants of the former Breda Division. In a gesture to the surrounding grain of infrastructure, this new office addition features a terracotta-colored fiber cement facade and regularly spaced large w... More