Airbnb uses current listings to theme interiors of expanded San Francisco headquarters

October 3, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco. The Airbnb Environments team collaborated with local architecture firm WRNS Studio to redesign the warehouse-like structure at 999 Brannan Street – an extension of the company’s main office at 888 Brannan down the

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Airbnb uses current listings to theme interiors of expanded San Francisco headquarters

October 3, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco. The Airbnb environmental team collaborated with local architecture firm WRNS Studio to redesign the warehouse-like structure at 999 Brannan Street – an extension of the company’s main office at 888 Brannan down the

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Latticed shell of SOM’s Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

The faceted exoskeleton of the tallest of these three office towers in Beijing by Skidmore Owings & Merrill is inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. The concertinaed external layer of the main tower of SOM’s Poly International Plaza creates a thermal envelope around office spaces, which are enclosed in a second layer of interior glazing. The

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman and her

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1098 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman’s brief

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IKEA’s Creative Hub in Malmö features moody library and walls for scribbling

October 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

IKEA employees can “go bananas writing on every wall” inside its Creative Hub in Malmö, Sweden, which features interiors designed by Nanna Lagerman. The offices for the creative team of furniture retail giant IKEA are located on the fourth floor of a building in the city, which was built in 1908 and once occupied by a bank. Lagerman’s brief

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Plans unveiled for London’s first purpose-built design district

September 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects are among the eight architecture studios creating buildings for a purpose-built design district at the heart of the new Greenwich Peninsula development in London.  The new one-hectare design district will provide a permanent base for over 1,800 of London’s creatives across a range of affordable architect-designed workspaces at the centre of the riverside

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Plans unveiled for London’s first purpose-built design district

September 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects are among the eight architecture studios creating buildings for a purpose-built design district at the heart of the new Greenwich Peninsula development in London.  The new one-hectare design district will provide a permanent base for over 1,800 of London’s creatives across a range of affordable architect-designed workspaces at the centre of the riverside

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Büros für Konstruktivismus turns a chicken coop in Berlin into an artist’s studio

September 25, 2017 India Block 0

Berlin-based practice Büros für Konstruktivismus has transformed a former chicken house in the back garden of a 1930s home into a pine-lined artist’s studio. The project is named Hühnerhaus, the German word for henhouse. The coop was originally constructed just after second world war in the grounds of a Berlin villa, but after its renovation the owner now uses

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Architect builds his own studio at the end of Toronto garden

September 21, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

The Brooklyn trend for backyard studios has extended all the way to Toronto, where the founder of architecture firm Six Four Five A has constructed a tiny timber workspace for himself at the end of the garden. The Garden Studio was designed by Oliver Dang at his family home in the Canadian city, where property prices

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