Architects Rosan Bosch recently designed the LEGO offices in Denmark. The design has made it possible for the designers to work closer together, in an environment that reflects the playfulness and ingenuity of the LEGO brand itself.

The open space at the centre of the room creates a dynamic flow where informal meeting places create a setting for social interaction and exchange of information. Towards the sides, there is room for concentrated work, and specially designed means of exhibition such as the show-off podiums and the model owers give the designers a chance to display their work to each other, facilitating the sharing of knowledge and ideas across the department. On the first floor, an expansion of the balcony has made room for five small and three large meeting rooms in each their own colour with glass facades and a view of the large, open space.

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More and more companies are adopting agile working arrangements, we recently saw how Microsoft embraced coworking in Amsterdam, now it is the turn of Unilever in Switzerland. The offices were designed by Camenzind Evolution, the ethos behind it being that the company doesn’t care where the work is done, as long as it gets done. As we know, one of the benefits of coworking and hotdesking is that is can reduce overheads. In Unilever’s case adopting an agile workplace saved it about 40% on real estate overheads. It seems that hotdesking and agile working is no longer a thing of the future, not only does it increase employee satisfaction, it also makes business sense. Here at eOffice we’re glad this trend is going from strength to strength, if you’d like to learn more about how you can take advantage of hotdesking and coworking check out our main website to see what we have to offer.

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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 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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Big In Japan is a Texas based mobile app developer. Their Dallas office space is geared towards their highly collaborative employees. The office is located in a seven story, 1.6 million sqft building that offers a wide range of rentable office space. The work environment is very open, there are no barriers between desks and glass-walled conference rooms give the space an open feel, while couches and Rock Band are ready for the employees to relax.

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