It never ceases to amaze me how ostensibly innovative companies expect their employees to work in perfectly uninspiring digs. For all their “out-of-the-box” thinking, they still think it appropriate to stuff their creatives into ...READ»
There are two things Switzerland does better than anyone else: minimalism and milk chocolate. The slick, glassy office building you see here is proof positive of the former in the town that gave the world the latter.
The ECA/OAI ...READ»
Most of us who work in open-plan offices think there’s plenty of communication between coworkers -- too much, in fact, with every chewed banana and crunched chip and shrill phone conversation broadcast indiscriminately throughout ...READ»
San Francisco design agency Studio O+A has sent us images of its new West Coast headquarters for AOL in Palo Alto and -- hold on to your foosball tables -- it doesn’t completely suck!
We say that not because Studio O+A sucks. The ...READ»
Adapting old buildings for contemporary use is one of the thorniest design problems around. Balancing the needs, both aesthetic and functional, of modern life with the labyrinthine imperatives of historic preservation can be an ...READ»
MVRDV, the Rotterdam-based architectural firm responsible for such gravity-defying projects as a barn balanced on a hill, has won a much quieter commission: the conversion of a defunct Dijon Mustard “laboratory”--your guess is as ...READ»
Most tax offices are about as charming as, well, doing your taxes. Leave it to UNStudio's Ben van Berkel -- an architect who made an NYC loft look like sculpture and a shopping mall feel like a museum -- to design a government tax ...READ»
The latest in our annals of wacky, zany, golly-gee office design comes courtesy of Jensen Architects in wacky, zany, golly-gee San Francisco. Their design for the ad agency Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners West resembles a cartoon version ...READ»
The French arm of ad giant JWT tapped quirky fellow countryman Mathieu Lehanneur to design its offices recently. The result: a cool little bunker of a place that looks like a cross between a golf course and a set from Dr. No. And we ...READ»
Here's a great way to show clients your company is otherworldly: Make your office resemble something George Jetson might've commuted to in his aerocar.
With the Pons + Huot headquarters, by Parisian architect Christian ...READ»
There are countless reasons why your indoor office should look more like the great outdoors. Research has shown that vegetation can purify the air, improve employee productivity, and create a natural sound barrier between you and your ...READ»
If you want to convince clients that your company is something approaching royalty, you could do worse than what Cheap Monday, a Swedish jeans brand, has done: Turn your headquarters into a modern-day Giza.
The office was ...READ»
Holland-based Doepel Strijkers Architects has unveiled a striking new office building in Rotterdam. We're not sure what's more interesting about it: the fact that it was designed to astonishingly exacting environmental standards or ...READ»
Design students, who venerate the perfect objects created by their professional idols, forget that innovation is a messy, imperfect process, plagued with fits, starts, and failures. A set of storage towers, custom-created for the new ...READ»
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»
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 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»
