Office Design News & Blog

The cloud and mobile computing has given workers unprecedented control and choice over where and how they work. Combing the influence of coffee culture, thanks to that wi-fi connection in Costa, souring fuel and property costs, a big emphasis on the environment and a strong demand for flexible working – and you have the [...]

Built in 1919, Liverpool’s Matchworks once produced  millions of matches for Bryant and May and provided work for hundreds of local families. But with the advent of  the lighter, the end was nigh for the humble match and the distinctive site closed in 1994 and lay derelict – until developer Urban [...]

Porto is not just home to a vaguely famous football team (courtesy of Mr. Jose Mourinho to the UK at least) and its popular export of fortified wine or “Port”. It is also home to the most insanely cool office building for Vodafone thanks to a truly modern office design. The super modern [...]

Horizon Media was founded in 1989 and today is the largest independent media services company in the world. Growing quickly they needed new office space to bring together their scattered staff across the city of New York into one building. It’s new space, interior designed by a+i architecture by [...]

The ANZ office building in Melbourne is absolutely incredible in a number of ways. First of all it is amazing that a very large bank, the most corporate of corporates, could get its office space so right. Usually we have to rely on the creative industries to prove vision and commitment and  to [...]

Trust Red Bull Netherlands  to come up with a crazy office design for their Amsterdam Headquarters. Their new office is in Mediawharf an old dockyard in Amsterdam that had been captured by street artists as it lay disused and run down. It’s now a bustling hive of creative activity, thanks to companies like [...]

Skype had 35 people in its old office and was bursting at the seams, they eventually found their next home  in a refurbished office in a massive historical building, Münchenbryggeriet, a Stockholm landmark and started the ball rolling towards what would eventually  become a truly great office design. It was originally [...]

Clive Wilkinson Architects from Hollywood (of course) established the benchmark with Maquarie’s wonderful Sydney Headquarters, so Maquarie naturally asked Clive Wilkinson to make the sequel, in true Hollywood style. Now we know banks aren’t really in vogue at the moment, but you’ve got to hand it to the Australians  -  we suspect they [...]

We continue to showcase the coolest office designs on the planet with this amazingly cool office design by Supermachine in Thailand for Saatchi and Saatchi. Advertising companies always create some of the most unusual offices in the world, after all it is their business to be creative, so a boring office just isn’t [...]

Your Move, one of the UK’s largest estate agents and a subsidiary of Newcastle headquartered LSL Property Services is set to relocate the majority of its Exeter operations into The Forum building in Exeter, off Southernhay, in one of the largest office acquisitions in the city this year. At [...]

Skype, the Microsoft owned communication company, is set for a London office relocation after putting  60,000 sq/ft of office space under offer  at Waterhouse Square London in “midtown” near Chancery Lane Tube in Holborn.

Waterhouse Square is Prupim’s gothic, red brick, landmark in the heart of central London.

Gratterpalm, the North’s leading advertising agency, has taken 15,000 sq/ft at No 1 Leeds agreeing a lease with group IVG for its prime Leeds scheme in the Yorkshire city – which will see undertake them a new Leeds office relocation. Group IVG subsidiary Oppenheim bought the building, the former Latitude Red, as part of a portfolio of office [...]

Work has begun on a new 20 Storey office building at 25 Churchill Place in Canary Wharf. Once completed in late 2014 it is set to become the new headquarters for the European Medicines Agency.

The initial stages are already well under way for Canary Wharf Group and its subsidiaries.  Canary [...]

This week O2 launched a flexible working pilot for UK staff in anticipation of the Olympics this summer. On Wednesday O2 shut its head office in Slough and the 3,000 employees normally based there, worked remotely. The rationale behind this move preempts the travel disruption expected due to the proximity to the [...]

One of the largest office deals in Exeter sees Torex Retail move into the Revolution Building at Pynes Hill next week. The premises were previously home to the social housing firm Connaught. The detached leasehold building was vacated from early in 2011, bringing 10,000 sq ft of office space onto the market. [...]

With increasing amounts of time spent in front of computers for much of the working population, the importance of supportive seating in the office has never been greater. Working comfortably is only one aspect of an ergonomic chair, the real benefits come in the form of increased health and productivity.

Squire and Partners have been appointed by Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment to plan the redevelopment of the Shell Centre site on London’s South Bank, providing new office space on one of the largest development sites in central London.

Squire and Partners replaced the [...]

Deutsche Bank is one of the last big investment banks to consolidate its operations into one large office and it has shortlisted four office buildings in London – Heron Tower, Cannon Place, The Shard and Canary Wharf. Banks such as Barclays, HSBC, JP [...]

The Swiss bank, UBS, will move into a new 700,000 sq ft headquarters seeing the construction of one of the largest office buildings in the City of London. UBS and British Land, the property developer, have agreed a development at the Broadgate estate in London’s main financial [...]

Quadrant 3 is one of four blocks that forms the spectacular Quadrant, that sits at the south end of Regent Street. At the beginning of January 2012 the building was 60% let. In February Telefónica will start their fit out of the 4th and 5th floors – 51,000 sq ft – [...]