Office Design

From Treestumps to Transformers: Dutch Laud Top Interior Design of '09

You know what the Dutch love almost as much as design? Design awards. Yesterday, they announced the latest: The 2009 Great Indoors awards, which selected five winners, from among over 380 entries worldwide. And the winners are...READ»

Commuter-Friendly Office on Wheels Puts Bus in Business

Austrian designers cut the Gordian knot, in a solution to traffic nightmares.READ»

The Hills Are Alive, in Google's Swiss HQ [UPDATED: New Pics]

There's lots of perks at Google HQ out in California, but the design itself is a snooze. Things are a lot more interesting at their just-completed engineering offices in Zurich, Switzerland. The common spaces are particularly ...READ»

Design With Teeth (and Also Cavities, Fillings, and Drills)

Design is drilled into Japanese culture--and Japanese designers treat every object as a chance to design something superb: bento boxes, kitchen knives, filing cabinets, toothbrushes. And even, apparently, dentist's offices. Check out these surprising examples.READ»

If You Like NYC's Guggenheim, You'll Love the "Cocoon" Office

Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ»

Workshoppe: Stylish Temp Space in the Land of Gourmet Burgers and Bankers

Let's say you're based outside NYC. But you come here often enough to need an office. But not so much that it's worth renting one long term. How's someone who's design obsessed supposed to pull that off? You can't very well sell ...READ»

The New Work Space: Will Lounge-Like Office Furniture Inspire Big Ideas?

The new pieces reflect changes in the way work gets done: It's less about the desk, and more about the coffee-break gabfest.READ»

Are Open Plan Offices Damaging Our Thinking?

Research by Dr Vinesh Oommen, from the Queensland University of Technology, claims that the use of open plan offices is adversely affecting productivity. Moreover, open plan offices are linked to decreasing levels of privacy, ...READ»

JWT's Offices: Designed for Telling Tales (and BS-ing with Friends)

Behind the scenes at the recently completed New York headquarters of the agency formerly known as J. Walter Thompson.READ»

Facebook's Swank New Offices

The HQ was designed with the help of online committees, and just like on Facebook, writing on the walls is encouraged.READ»

Selgas Cano Architecture Office: An Office Perfect for Forest Sprites

If you're a friend of the forest, it's hard to imagine a better office environment than the one that architectural firm, Selgas Cano, recently built to work out of, in Madrid. It's really not much more than a tube, sunken into ...READ»

Deloitte's Swanky Headquarters are Optimized for Itinerant Workers

Management consultants are, by nature, a pretty staid lot--to project authority, whether its McKinsey or Bain, they usually err on the side of cautious, albeit luxurious design. Not so with Deloitte Consulting, which recently ...READ»

Inside the Lego-plex: No Wonder They Hatch Such Great Ideas

Lego is one of the world's most creative companies. What kind of office is equal to the task of housing its development staff? Here's a peek inside the company's work space, designed by Bosch & Fjord. It's clever enough, with ...READ»

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