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Biasol converts art-deco warehouse in Melbourne into space for its studio

August 12, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Australian studio Biasol sought to preserve the art deco elements of this warehouse in Melbourne while converting it into a shared studio and office space. The Gwynne Street Studio is located in the Cremorne suburb of Melbourne – an area that Biasol describes as having a “creative and industrial past”. The warehouse building featured an art deco

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Apple Park employees revolt over having to work in open-plan offices

August 10, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Some Apple workers hate the open-plan layout of their new Foster + Partners-designed campus so much they might quit, according to reports circulating around Silicon Valley. A $5 billion (£3.8 billion) development eight years in the making, the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California began welcoming the tech giant’s employees in April. The remaining employees

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Open-plan offices must be rethought to prevent employees losing focus, finds Haworth

August 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Open-plan offices are “sabotaging” employees’ ability to focus at work, while connectivity is leaving them “paralysed” by an oversupply of information, according to research by furniture brand Haworth. In the second in a new series of articles produced in collaboration with Haworth, we look at why employees lose focus in the workplace, and how it can be avoided. Haworth’s white paper,

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Jiaji Shen proposes turning abandoned coal pier into workshop for “mudlarking” jewellery maker

August 6, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Royal College of Art graduate Jiaji Shen has proposed transforming a disused pier on London’s River Thames into a workshop for a designer who makes jewellery with items scavenged from the mud. Shen developed The Jewel of the Thames project during his interior design masters studies at London’s Royal College of Art. It formed part of the programme’s Obsolescence section, which asked

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MVRDV unveils plans for Sri Lankan office building with stepped terraces

August 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Work has begun on an office building designed by Rotterdam studio MVRDV for the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, which will feature a gridded facade based on local weaving patterns. Rising eight storeys high, the 12,000-square-metre Veranda Offices building will include a mix of office spaces, as well as a restaurant, a cafe and an events pavilion. Stepped terraces will interlock with

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Interrobang fills its office with custom plywood furniture painted the colours of insulating foam

July 29, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture and engineering studio Interrobang has fitted out its east London office with freestanding plywood furniture units, painted in the same pastel hues as insulating foam typically concealed within a building’s walls. When Interrobang moved into the space on the first floor of a five-storey 1970s office block in 2016, it was completely empty and had no

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Jony Ive on Apple Park: “It’s nice, though, isn’t it?”

July 28, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive has revealed his feelings about the tech giant’s new home, as his team prepares to move in, and photos of the building’s interior emerge. Ive has helped oversee the construction of the ring-shaped Apple Park campus, designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, for the past eight years. It was the last

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Jony Ive on Apple Park: “It’s nice, though, isn’t it?”

July 28, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive has revealed his feelings about the tech giant’s new home, as his team prepares to move in, and photos of the building’s interior emerge. Ive has helped oversee the construction of the ring-shaped Apple Park campus, designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners, for the past eight years. It was the last

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Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings

July 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. The CTLES (Technical Centre for Books of Higher Education) is a national public administrative institution located in the Parisian suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges, around 25 kilometres east of the city

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MAPmx’s Mexico City tower to feature facades parted like draped curtains

July 19, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture studio MAPmx has unveiled an office tower in Mexico City with huge concrete walls that appear to be pulled apart at the corners. The local architects designed Chapultepec 500 with the aim to reinvigorate its location on Avenida Chapultepec – one of Mexican capital’s main thoroughfares. To achieve this, MAPmx placed the building on four concrete “legs” with curved edges

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