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Sector: TechnologySize: 3,788 sq ftLocation: BathThe VisionFounded in 2004, Bath-based Rocketmakers have seen unprecedented growth in the past decade. In the last few months alone, the software developers have received A Queen’s Award for Enterprise, a Creative Bath Award for Innovation, and The Bath Life Platinum Award. With this in mind, the team needed a space that would meet their growing reputation and needs – in terms of space-efficiency, agility, and attracting potential new recruits and partners. The team found their new home at the recently refurbished 20 Manvers Street. Having completed an inspirational workplace for fellow Manvers Street tenants Wild & Wolf, the team here at Interaction were a natural choice when it... More

Small space design, because of its inherent warmth and intimacy, sometimes affords opportunities not found in projects on a larger scale. Giant Pixel, a gaming applications company in San Francisco, occupies three floors near the City’s Mint Plaza, an area known for creative redevelopment and modernity drawn from vintage architecture. Formerly a printing press, the existing building presented O+A’s designers with three small footprints—basement, first and second floors—in a raw industrial shell of concrete and wood. At the outset both designer and client recognized the strong structural (and metaphorical) potential of an old printer’s site as home to an app developer. O+A’s design challenge was to fit a variety of distinct work areas... More

Google Ireland opens the doors to its thriving new campus: Four buildings located in the heart ofDublin’s historic docklands district! With over 47’000 m2 of unique office space, the campusrepresents an amazing workplace for Google’s ever growing sales, marketing, finance andengineering teams, coming from more than 65 countries and speaking over 45 languages. Masterplanned by the Swiss architecture studio Camenzind Evolution in collaboration with local firmHenry J. Lyons Architects, the campus represents the Google EU Headquarters and serves as thecenter for sales and finances in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The tallest of the four campus buildings is the newly constructed 14-storey building 'Google Docks'which is also t... More

When we first met with Pinterest, it was to discuss their office in Palo Alto. There were 12 people in the group, but they were growing quickly. Evan and Ben, Pinterest’s founders, asked us to design an office environment that could reflect their unorthodox character and growth. Our response was through monumentality. Rather than buying a desk for every new engineer, we proposed one large table that would reach maximum capacity over a long period of time. It measured 32’ x 32’, and could easily fit sixty people. The table went into production, when we were called in for another meeting. The company had exploded. Pinterest had tripled in size and the partners found a 45,000 square foot warehouse in San Francisco that could easily fit 300... More

Design for the new European headquarters for Microsoft. The Bouygues Immobilier and the Generali Group are developing this new office complex of 495,150 SF (46,000m2) on a spectacular site on the banks of the Seine River in a Paris suburb of Issy les Moulineaux. The development consists of three buildings, each 161,450 SF (15,000m2), which are connected by courtyards, retail and 3 levels of parking. Design Intent The site development is defined by three volumetric typologies. The Bar: A rectangular prism is placed along the SCNF track, establishing an urban edge and anchoring the development. This rectangle relates geometrically to the orthogonal texture of the neighborhoods beyond. It also provides a buffer from the SCNF activi... More

Located in new development in Paddington district , Kaspersky Lab London office was done in 2014 London office was created as development of style which Headquater in Moscow has but with own face More

Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb in 2008. Brian and Joe were classmates studying Industrial Design at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), and became roommates when Joe convinced Brian to move to San Francisco. The idea for Airbnb sprang from their need to pay rent. The IDSA design conference was taking place in San Francisco in August of 2007, and most hotels were sold out. In order to make a little extra money, they rented out a few air mattresses on their living room floor to conference attendees. Their guests had a truly local San Francisco experience, and Brian and Joe not only made enough money to pay the rent, but also became great friends with their guests. After everyone checked out, Brian and Jo... More

The extensive fit out and refurbishment of Google’s Madrid HQ sets new standards in office interior design on the Iberian peninsula.   Jump Studios, a London based architecture practice with a recently launched satellite office in Lisbon, has completed Google’s new Madrid office using advanced materials to deliver a highly sustainable and inspiring new workplace for the company’s Iberian operations.   Jump Studios is currently shortlisted for the BD Architect of the Year 2013 Award in the Interior Architecture category for a range of projects including Google Madrid.   OVERVIEW The Google Madrid project comprises the fit out of two floors in one of Madrid’s mostprestigious high-rise buildings &nd... More

Google Campus is a seven storey co-working and event space in the centre of London’sTech City, otherwise known as Silicon Roundabout.The project, run by Google UK aims to fuel the success of London’s tech start upcommunity. Working with partners Seedcamp, Tech Hub, Springboard and Central Working, theprimary function of Campus will be to provide office space for startup companies,but the facilities will also host daily events, offer regular speaker series with leadingtechnology and entrepreneurship experts, hold networking events and run a constantmentoring program where Google staff will share their experience and expertise withresidents.Non-residential registered users will have access to the cafe and co-working space onthe lower groun... More

Introduction Situated in the heart of San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood, Atlassian’s new workplace is moreof an urban hub than the typical dot-com environment found in Silicon Valley. In San Francisco fashion their newoffice space has been past home to a church, disco, and print shop. Atlassian is proud to add software to the legacyof this industrial building. Having an international presence in the United States, Australia, and The Netherlands,Atlassian’s offices have been strategically located in dense urban areas. Atlassian’s industry leadership inenterprise software puts it in a category of growth and expansion during a time of economic recession; the need fornew digs is the result of robust recruitment of a new gener... More

Amazingly inspiring new work environment for Google in Tel Aviv At the end of December 2012, Google Israel has opened its spectacular new 8’000 m2 offices in Tel Aviv for their evergrowing teams of engineers, sales and marketing. Designed by Swiss Design Team Camenzind Evolution, in collaboration with Israeli Design Teams Setter Architects andStudio Yaron Tal, the new Google office now occupies 8 floors in the prestigious Electra Tower in Central Tel Aviv, withbreath taking views across the whole city and the sea. It is a new milestone for Google in the development of innovative work environments: nearly 50% of all areas havebeen allocated to create communication landscapes, giving countless opportunities to employees t... More

From almost any angle the visual impact of Cisco’s San Francisco offices is of light, spaciousness, bright color, long sightlines. Cisco recently acquired Meraki, which makes wireless routers—and takes pride in the elegance of their design. O+A sought to build the space the way Cisco-Meraki builds its products—with an emphasis on simplicity and seamless ease of use. But it was also mindful of the importance to the company’s identity of the merger. Located in the rapidly changing Mission Bay neighborhood, Cisco-Meraki’s 110,000 square foot suite of offices now becomes Cisco’s principal San Francisco location. At the outset O+A surveyed Meraki’s employees to find out what they liked about their old, much smaller headquarters. A cons... More

As part of a company-wide initiative to adapt to changes in an online culture they were instrumentalin creating, Aol moved its West Coast headquarters to a new corporate space in Palo Alto and brought in Studio O+Ato give the office a fresh design. The existing space retained a distinctly 1980s corporate aesthetic: drop ceilings, high cubicles, dark finishes, oblique lines. O+A pulled all this back to a clean, white canvas—exposed the ceilings, stripped the walls to reveal the structure and generally sought a spatial equivalent of the transparency that Aolwas bringing to every aspect of its business. Key to this approach is the concept of “honest materiality”—the embrace of materials and processes that originate in the constructio... More

Skype’s primary goal was to create a world-class o!ce that would di"erentiate them from their Bay Area competitorsin the recruitment of talent. Their new space not only had to be a design statement that reflected their modern but funpersonality, but it also had to meet very specific acoustic requirements to support the company’s extensive use of AV.Skype hired Design Blitz architects to design their new North American headquarters on an aggressive budget andschedule. To really understand how Skype operates culturally, Design Blitz undertook extensive user-group surveying, andresearched workspace typology before ever laying pen to paper. A significant portion of Skype’s culture is built aroundScrum development (iterative idea generation)... More