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Born to run: Swiss athletics brand On re-envisions the traditional office

Born to run: Swiss athletics brand On re-envisions the traditional office

We first profiled the Swiss running brand On back in 2012, detailing a next-gen pair of trainers that, with their space-age CloudTec sole design, aimed to shake up the sport's sprawling shoe market.

The intervening four years have seen the brand expand from its Zurich hub to Portland and Yokohama, and its patented design winning an IPSO Gold Award for Best Performance Shoe in 2015/16, as well as pattering across global racetracks on the feet of World Champions and medal-winning athletes.

With such successes came moving home, and a shift to the west end of Zurich has seen On team up with Thilo Alex Brunner and Joerg Mettler's industrial design firm Brunner Mettler Co to reinvigorate the staid concept of office design.

They settled on a central concept of 'flow'. Eschewing the common-sense approach of short distances around the office, they instead opted for a main pathway of 100m. Along this space, they explain, 'the whole team is lined up'.

Read more about this project on wallpaper.com >

KAO Group EMEA Headquarters – Amersfoort

KAO Group EMEA Headquarters – Amersfoort

Tétris has designed the new EMEA headquarters of cosmetics company KAO Group located in Amersfoort, Netherlands.

Two different offices are now combined in one office where you can really experience the KAO brand identity throughout the whole office. The colors of their product packaging are used in the office and there is enough space for KAO to display their products incorporated in the design.

See more of this project on officesnapshots.com >