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  • Pine-and-glass shelving encloses office for tech company in Ecuador

    Architects Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones have built a wooden office in Guayaquil, Ecuador with a wall of angular windows that pop open, as shown in these photos with people wearing coronavirus face masks. Local architects Andrade and Váscones designed the structure for technology services company Mendotel to create a private area for […] More

  • Woods Bagot devises office layouts for workplaces post-coronavirus

    Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirus that merge working from home and office life to “strengthen culture and performance”. The Working from Home, Working from Work project was created by the architecture firm to move beyond health and safety measures, which are a given, and focus on encouraging collaboration and […] More

  • “The office will continue to be a vital part of most of our lives” says Helen Berresford

    The coronavirus pandemic will not kill the office, but we will see some striking changes when we return to work, says Helen Berresford, head of Sheppard Robson’s interiors studio. Post-pandemic offices will be reduced to 20 per cent occupancy, shared spaces will have to be rethought and a “pandemic mode” may be introduced to some workspaces, […] More

  • Daytrip completes eclectic offices for media company in Clerkenwell

    Mid-century homes in Palm Springs and vintage advertisements from the 1950s are just some of the things that design studio Daytrip drew upon to create the vibrant interiors of this central London office. The media office takes over three floors of a converted warehouse in Clerkenwell that was originally built back in the 18th century. […] More

  • Kovalska office in Kyiv is decked out with humble building materials

    Creative duo Artem Trigubchak and Lera Brumina used concrete slabs, sand and paving stones to fashion the furnishings and partition walls inside this office in Kyiv. Designed for a Ukrainian developer and building materials company called Kovalska, the 1,120-square-metre office is spread across two floors of a Soviet-era factory in the industrial district of Obolon. […] More

  • JamesPlumb converts Victorian tannery into London HQ for PSLab

    Blocky concrete plinths dominate lighting brand PSLab’s London HQ, which local studio JamesPlumb has designed to evoke “quiet brutalism”. Tucked down a quiet side street in south London’s Bermondsey neighbourhood, PSLab’s HQ occupies a Victorian-era tannery – a place where animal hides are processed to produce leather. The lighting brand, which originally launched in Beirut, […] More

  • Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon renovate their Montreal design studio and home

    Designers Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon’s home in Montreal features contemporary Danish pieces alongside oak, terracotta and marble. Located in the city’s Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, the Victorian-era brick home was renovated by the couple to accommodate a design studio and residence for them and their two poodles. Completed in 1885, the residence has a slender width of 3.1 […] More