Baker & McKenzie – Australia Office
Baker & McKenzie is one of the world’s largest law firms, with more than 3,750 locally admitted lawyers in 70 offices worldwide they are a truly global institution. This new innovative office space is located in Australia, and was designed by Bates Smart Architects.
Extensive user group consultation was undertaken to determine Baker & McKenzie’s needs and aspirations, resulting in a fit out that aims to promote a team focused, collaborative and learning focused work environment. Their dynamic workspace features team clusters of highly glazed single and dual occupancy enclosed offices and democratic planning in which no individual owns the window. Exciting shared staff spaces have a comfortable, residential feel and are connected by a new interconnecting stair and striking sculpture. The outcome is a timeless, welcoming, grounded space with an innovative twist – a reflection of Baker & McKenzie’s brand and culture.
If you’re looking for an Office in Australia, or meeting and conference rooms please click the links to see what eOffice can offer!
J&A Garrigues – Spanish Law Firm Office Space
J&A Garrigues is one of Spain’s most prestigious the law firm’s. Their offices are located in Seville and they recently moved from their old headquarters with the view to modernise the firms image. The task was undertaken by the Spanish architects EDDEA.
If you are looking for office space in Spain, eOffice has many locations across the country including office in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville.
[Pictures by Javier Orive via ArchDaily]
Kuubo – Office Desk
The typical office desk is usually characterised as a simple and formal piece of office furniture. Kuubo takes an innovative approach to the humble office desk, it was created by the Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa for the Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra. The desk aims to be stylish and functional by providing elegantly hidden extra storage space, something many offices are in dire need of.
Fukasawa has designed a versatile work surface that gives users different options that go against this trend by reducing everything to the bare essentials. It can be considered a team centre, functioning as a temporary workstation, conference and meeting table, a manager’s desk with space for clients etc..
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Nije Gritenije Foundation – Netherlands
This bright, open and airy office is the office space of the Nije Gritenije Foundation. The Nije Gritenije foundation is a Rabobank initiative based in Heerenveen, Netherlands aimed at stimulating local and regional entrepreneurship. The foundation asked Amsterdam based FLATarchitects to design twenty workstations and a conference room on the ninth and tenth floor of the brand new Rabobank building. Neutral colours are used throughout giving a calming feel to the offices overral, however it avoids being ‘boring’ through the use of colour accents and quirky murals on the walls. We especially like the use of wooden, geometric walls to divide the spaces .
If you’re looking for office space in the Netherlands, or office services such as a virtual office, conference rooms or meeting rooms then please check out your website here.
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Desk Organiser – Artificial Grass Made of Natural Bristles
Made of wood and natural bristles, ‘Pratonzolo’ is a stylish desk organiser that adds a touch of nature into your office. The soft bristles which appear as artificial grass do the function of holding small objects such as pencils, pens and business cards. It was designed by Italian product designer Max Battaglia of ‘Givingshape’ design studio in collaboration with Matteo Mocchi of ‘BBMds’ design studio for ‘Stylemylife’, a young Italian start up company.
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Quid Office Space – Studio O+A
Quid is a company which designs software for various complex data handeling purposes. It is therefore unsurprising that the large graphic in their lobby feature a colourful array of data points based on actual Quid customers. Designed by studio Studio O+A, the office is stylish yet functional.
One important feature of this office space is the Library, it was designed to be a useful and enjoyable resource for the company’s staff. It was given careful thought from the beginning, and as such Studio O+A states:
Library spaces are proving increasingly important to our workplace design – open plan is great for collaboration but can leave people without anywhere to concentrate. We create libraries as a respite for concentration and focussed work. Regardless of book quantity, the very connotation of “library” means people understand the concentrative aspect of the space.
[Photos by Jasper Sanidad via Office Snapshots]
MindLab – Danish Government office
MindLab is an institution that’s part of the Danish government. It works with businesses and citizens alike to help drive innovation. MindLab works along side other ministries including the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, Ministry of Taxation and Ministry of Employment. The office was designed by Bosch and Fjord, who are also from Denmark.
The design was directed by one overarching question - How do you create a working environment that stimulates innovation?
The basic principle is that people should not accommodate the room; the room should accommodate the people. this means that the identity of the room is created by the users, who are free to rearrange their physical surroundings according to need and create new work stations with partition walls on castors and movable lamps.
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eBay office space San Jose, California
Wondering where the eBay corporate headquarters or the PayPal offices are located? Both eBay and their PayPal offices are located in San Jose, California. The new office space was designed by Valerio Dewalt. Though their office makes use of funky and trendy designs, bright colours and designated meeting and conference rooms that are accommodating, I can’t help but feel a bit underwhelmed. From a giant the likes of eBay I expected something more progressive and cutting edge. Nevertheless this is still one impressive space, if not perhaps one still harking back to the 90s?
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Barcode Office – Singapore office for Ministry of Design
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Colin Seah from Ministry of Design about the design of their own office, a former shophouse in Singapore where the rooms and the furniture within them are arranged in rows like a barcode.
Here are some pictures of this Singapore office space. The office makes particular use of contrast between white and black, unsurprisingly due to the name, much like a barcode! There are however some areas of colour used to give the office some excitement, as seen by the meeting room which is almost exclusively all red.
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Meeting Rooms – Suspended Transparent Cube
The Scandinavian architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has designed some pretty amazing meeting rooms for the offices of Nykredit. Nykredit is a leading mortgage bank in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting rooms are innovative in that they are suspended boxes in the form of a transparent cube. This cubical structure gives a clear visual display of Copenhagen Harbor, which also supplies water to maintain the temperature of the office building.
[via DesignBuzz]