ME&C Creative has designed the new offices of financial education platform Financial.org located in London.

With a prestigious location overlooking iconic London views of the Olympic Stadium, the O2 and One Canada Square, the brief was simple, to create an executive lounge space and meeting rooms for Financial.org to welcome global visitors in a refined environment resemblant of the finest London Gentlemens clubs.

Using over 500sq ft of bead blasted aluminium panelling, horizontal grained crown cut walnut and gloss black ceiling tiles, the scene was set for bespoke seating arrangements and luxury flooring. This 6500 sq.ft space was our first project in Canary Wharf and was completed on a tight timescale, we’re hoping it will become the showpiece for many more.

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Whether or not we’ve realized it, most of us have bought products through Square, a company that supplies small businesses with the now-ubiquitous square-shaped hardware and software that remotely processes credit card payments. Square’s new offices in San Francisco are meant to be as minimal, clear, and usable as its products.

Located in what was once a miserable, almost completely windowless Bank of America data center, the new 300,000-square-foot, fourth-floor office is just the opposite: an open, light-filled workspace organized by a central “boulevard,” lined with gathering spaces (including a library, gallery, and cafe), and a wide variety of working spaces, including bench-style work desks, tables, and semi-private, acoustically lined “work cabanas.”

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FormNation has designed the new offices of mobile WiFi company Karma located in New York City.

Located in New York’s Little Italy, Karma’s office was transformed by design studio FormNation into a modern space that combines Dutch and American design influences and provides transparency, communication and work-life balances for the employees.

Karma’s design brief was short, but clear: Design a space with 40 desks, ample break out areas, a war room, communal lunch space for 40, that fits the brand, and they had to move in there in 4 weeks.

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Kiva Design has designed the new offices of digital signage company Broadsign located in Montréal, Quebec.

Broadsign, a leading provider of digital signage software wanted to adopt an agile environment in their new offices to better meet the needs of their high-tech work environment. Discussions with the client established three project goals: collaboration, technology integration and the expression of the brand.

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Website-builder and hosting service company Jimdo has recently moved into a new office space in Hamburg, Germany. Design was completed by an in-house team.

Jimdo was founded in 2007 by Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, and Matthias Henze. The three founders set up base in Hamburg Bahrenfeld, in what used to be a margarine factory. The team started on the top floor (5th floor) of the Klinkerstein building with more of a flat-share feel—consisting of a large open office, a kitchen with a coffee machine, and a balcony. Through the years Jimdo has grown and gradually worked its way down, floor by floor, knocking down walls, and creating partitions and stairways.

In second half of 2016, Jimdo arrived at the ground floor of Stresemannstrasse 375 with the opening of the new reception area, an open service area for all Jimdo users, and the larger and brighter rooms of the Jimdo employee restaurant “ChezSam”.

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GASPARBONTA has designed the new offices of software development firm Hortonworks located in Budapest, Hungary.

After designing an office in 2015 for Sequence IQ, a Budapest-based development firm acquired by Hortonworks, we had the chance to continue the cooperation with the firm this year, in their recent expansion in Budapest. The new office is located in the same building, just three floors below the first one, with the same geometrical possibilities.

We went on with our original concept, to create an open, playful, welcoming environment for all employees, something like an ‘adult playground’, just like last year, only with different tools. We use simple colors on big surfaces, red, green, blue – the same colors our monitors use to generate every color. The ceiling in the open spaces is covered with a unique wallpaper we designed specifically for this project, a cloud made up from small dots. Just as the actual clouds are made up from tiny drops of water and the clouds we use in computing, which are made up from tiny bits of data.

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Maris Interiors has designed the new offices of Zoopla Property Group, owner of the digital platforms including Zoopla, uSwitch and PrimeLocation, located in London.

The new ZPG headquarters, which have undergone a complete renovation in keeping with ZPG’s vision and are a distinct departure from typical office environments, have been designed to incorporate all the characteristics of a home over three floors of ‘living space’.

The new offices now house almost 500 of ZPG’s London-based team members and include themed areas, meeting rooms and break-out spaces including a Living Room, Dining Room, Wine Cellar, Study, Media Room, Conservatory, Library, Terrace and even a Treehouse.

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PDM International has developed the new offices of global technology company Microsoft located in Suzhou, China.

Details of the Brief: PDM International had done several projects for Microsoft previously and where invited to tender for the project alongside other top international design companies competing in China. Since the tender brief asked for a design that would help to attract and retain young & talented people, the focus was on the concept and how to cater to the unique needs of the different engineering groups while integrating the Workplace Advantage (WPA) program, a strategic program designed to identify and meet the unique needs of Microsoft’s businesses through the provision of appropriately designed and equipped work environments.

The new Suzhou Campus has been designed to cater for a maximum occupancy headcount of 2000 pax. The goal was to create an energetic and welcoming design language / concept for the campus building that was designed to include multifunctional seminar and event spaces, attractive F&B choices, indoor and outdoor sports and wellness facilities as well as flexible team spaces to support creative brainstorm sessions and casual / formal meetings alike.

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Steven Leach Group has developed the new offices of global tech company Citrix located in Nanjing, China.

Citrix Systems, a global client and leader in innovation amongst technology enterprises partnered up with SL+A to design a new office reflective of their industry status. Located in the Jiangning District of Nanjing,the Citrix Systems China R&D Technical Support Center is designed with a fresh, new concept.

Through effective design developments and innovative construction techniques, we were able to provide Citrix with a comfortable, innovation encouraging and environmentally friendly office space.

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The wacky tech office is a post-millennium cliche. So it should come as no surprise that Dropbox’s new San Francisco HQ has such odd-ball features as a basement karaoke bar, floating balls of moss, and a room covered in Delft-inspired tile.

Designed by the office interior mavens at Rapt Studio, the sprawling 300,000-square-foot space was separated into distinct design chunks or “neighborhoods.” Rapt was inspired by the social topographies of cities to consider each area as a separate stylistic enclave where different departments and temperaments could thrive. Each area has open areas and meeting rooms designed to fit the work and social needs of everyone from collaboration lovers to solitude seekers.

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RA-DA has designed the new offices of cloud infrastructure and hosting company DigitalOcean located in New York City.

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. They are now the world’s second largest web hosting provider, second only to Amazon.

Nailing the culture of this relatively new company was key in our early explorations for the design. This was their first move into a formal office and they had not been through this exercise before. They had a clear sense of identity though so our task was to hone in on that and figure out how to articulate that in the architecture.

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LEPEL & LEPEL has designed the new offices of eCommerce company REWE Digital located in Cologne, Germany.

The historic factory buildings of Cologne’s Carlswerk, founded in 1874, have been undergoing conversion to high-quality office lofts since 2007 for, among others, REWE Digital. In order to provide employees with the best possible working conditions, the former copper works is being converted to open-plan offices. By the middle of 2017 these will provide workplaces for almost 500 IT workers.

In eight consecutive building phases, workplaces, conference rooms and staff rooms are being created, retaining the hall character of the original building and its 5 metre high storeys. Two-storey cubes divide the hall into different zones: one is used as a common area providing a separate space for work groups or meetings. The individual workplaces are designed in the form of “work benches” along the window fronts, with white board areas on the sides of the cubes which teams can use.

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FormNation has recently transformed Karma's NYC office, located in New York's Little Italy, into a modern space that combines Dutch and American design influences and provides transparency, communication and work-life balances for the employees. Karma's design brief was short, but clear: Design a space with 40 desks, ample break out areas, a war room, communal lunch space for 40, that fits the brand, and they had to move in there in 4 weeks.

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Zyeta Studios has developed the new offices of social and mobile gaming company GSN Games located in Bangalore, India.

The office comprises of two floors, and is designed to accommodate around 330 employees, with the aim to create an open and collaborative environment that blends the functions of work, play and community. The office is flexible and an open workspace

The idea is to create a quirky and playful office with eclectic features, were the emphasis was on creating unique collaborative working areas for the team to relax and work productively

The office is designed with an open concept with as much daylight towards the workstation. A variety of types of workspaces are created to cater to the work habits of the different individuals. Besides open benching, there are standing high desks, booth style workspaces allowing for close collaboration and open collaboration for impromptu discussion. The informal areas make the environment more comfortable for the team and their socialization.

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US studio Clive Wilkinson Architects has completed a new Texas office for tech company GLG, which features an open-office plan and a variety of communal workspaces.

The project was designed for Gerson Lehrman Group, or GLG. Founded in 1998, the tech company offers an online learning platform and network service for professionals.

The company formerly occupied two lower floors in a tower in downtown Austin.

It commissioned LA-based Clive Wilkinson Architects – which previously designed GLG's global headquarters in New York City – to design a new, larger office for the 15th and 16th storeys of the same building.

Totalling 42,000 square feet (3,900 square metres), the new office is nearly double the size of the old space. It accommodates 450 employees spread across two contiguous floors.

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Whether a self-initiated project or embarking on new work for a client, creating a space that is captivating to the eye but also supports the way one works and feels is important. Inspiring and collaborative environments are what we thrive off of here at One Workplace. Back in 2015, Twitter opened the doors to their location in Toronto Canada.  Being a part of the development for an office space for one of the most popular social media platforms in the world was exciting to say the least. Designing the Twitter Toronto space was obviously one of those projects that required a dynamic vision that included tons of energy, distinction and a dose of adventure.

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Weaver Architects has developed the new offices of law enforcement technology firm Axon located in Seattle, Washington.

Early on in the design process, the CEO came to us with an idea that became the driving focus of the project. The concept? To craft a porthole into the future of technology. The goal was to create the feeling of not walking into a corporate office, but instead, boarding a spacecraft that will transport one to unknown territories of time far ahead of us.

With such an ambitious concept, the design of the client’s new home required inventive choices. The most noticeable is the first visible feature – the front door, which has been designed to resemble a spaceship hatch. When the heavy metal doors slide open, guests are greeted with an interactive panel to confirm their identity before entering.

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In May, Instagram shocked the internet when it unveiled a sleek, rainbow-gradient upgrade to its Polaroid icon. Now that new aesthetic feels like old hat, and the company is incorporating it offline into the decor of its new office in Menlo Park, California.

Last week, the company moved offices from one floor of a building on Facebook's original campus (not the new, Frank Gehry-designed one) to a three-story building of its own. Working with the San Francisco-based architecture firm Gensler, Instagram designed the space to feel like a 3D version of the app. "Offline, that translated into different textures, bright colors, and lighting," says Instagram's head of design Ian Spalter. They swapped out the dark wood and denim of their previous office for clean lines, neutral tones, and vibrant splashes of color.

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Originally built in 1926, the Maltz Building in New York's Soho neighborhood was a factory producing printed materials during the mid-20th century. Today, the expansive loading dock in the rear of the historic building has been transformed into an entrance for the website-building platform Squarespace, whose new offices occupy the top three floors.

Squarespace moved into the recently refurbished space in March, consolidating its 322 New York-based employees. Where heavy machinery, factory lines, and reams of paper once stood, a sleek—and very serious-looking—modern office has risen. It's a fitting reuse of an old printing press for the information age.

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Merge OTR has designed the new offices of information technology company Dimension Data located in Singapore.

Helping people engage: Collaborative spaces are planned near & around the main work area in the form of meeting rooms, discussion pods & phone booths. Writable paint converts wall surfaces into brainstorming aids. These facilities enable staffs to rapidly get into non-formal collaborative activities with minimal fuss.

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