In early 2013, Google moved into its extraordinary 85,000 sq ft new digs in Electra Tower, Â Tel Aviv, Israel. Just as with the Google Dublin offices we covered recently, the Tel Aviv offices were designed by Camenzind Evolution. The 8 story high rise complex boasts panoramic views of the city while providing its employees with the . . .
Category: Non-Residential
Pictures and articles about non residential buildings including creative offices and prisons!
Google’s New Office In Dublin
Located in the tallest commercial building in Dublin, the Montevetro, or Google Docks as it is now called, houses Google’s headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa designed by Camenzind Evolution. Â Historically befitting of Googlian culture, the multi-hued complex boasts office spaces tagged with names such as ‘Clown College’, ‘Funland’ and ‘Bouncing Castle’. Employees . . .
Acapulco’s Brilliant Uber-Modern Hotel Encanto
Overlooking the golden sands of Mexico’s Pacific coastline, Acapulco’s uber-modern  Hotel Encanto, offers guests a luxury getaway like no other. Built in 2010, by Miguel Angel Aragonés architects, the resort takes advantage of its luscious natural surroundings through a free flowing design which incorporates lengths of glass walls that bring the  panoramic vistas of beach, ocean and a . . .
Bali’s Tropical Paradise Maya Ubud Resort
Located in the heart of Indonesia’s most exotic island of Bali, sits the Maya Ubud Resort. The resort is a complex of villas situated in the wild jungle surrounded by 10 acres of enticingly fragrant gardens and spread out along a plateau high above two rapidly running rivers. This tropical paradise boasts a main hotel . . .
Green Office Inspiration: Where Line meets Lime!
This contemporary commercial space is the Neo Derm Medical Aesthetic Centre in Hong Kong, created by interior designers and architects Beige Design. Via Adelto
eBay Turkey Offices
The bright new eBay offices in Turkey span a 2.000 m² floor area on a single level of the O.S.O Mimarlik’s Office Building in Istanbul Atasehir, following the trend of ‘open offices’ we have seen so much of lately. This new global trend of borderless working has led to a layout of four flow-through areas . . .
A Beautifully Charming Country Hotel in France
Nestled in the heart of the picturesque village of Brantôme, France, is the pretty hotel Moulin de l’Abbaye, complete with bright blue window shutters, pink flora and a blanket in lush green ivy. Do check out the video as well.
Facebook’s New Menlo Park Campus To Be Designed By Frank Gehry
Facebook is all set to break ground on a giant new campus in Menlo park for housing 2800 of its employees by early 2013. The design for the new HQ extension was drafted by renowned architect Frank Gehry who has a history of designing iconic buildings. Gehry’s creations usually spell magic – The Guggenheim Museum . . .
Google London Office
Okay London, it took a lot of restraint from us to not cover you during Olympics but we are not going to miss this! The shiny new London based Google Super HQ, designed by the talent at PENSON, is a great example of British pride with bold Union Jack flags spanning the walls. Via Dezeen
Tech Offices Round Up
We’ve covered so many great office spaces here on home designing that we thought it was about time for a top ten tech office round up; fun meeting rooms you could happily spend all day in, roof top gardens and cool canteens in which to linger over coffee breaks, and workspaces that promote the sharing . . .
Twitter’s New Headquarters in San Francisco
The Twitter team decided that San Francisco was to remain the place they call home, and moved into office space at 1355 Market Street, Market Square. Office space within the two art-deco buildings that make up Market Square has experienced a long period of vacancy-decades in fact-and the injection of business life brought by the . . .
Interiors of Microsoft’s Building 4 in Redmond Campus
Building 4 in Redmond, Washington, is home to the Microsoft campus where the firm’s office innovation team was challenged with the question of how offices will work and appear in 15 years time. The task of determining what an office in the future would look like resulted in the Building 4 prototype, designed by Studio . . .
Microsoft’s Briefing Center in Wallisellen, Switzerland
Microsoft’s office building, in Wallisellen, Switzerland, are enjoying the recent completion of a superb Briefing Center, by Stuttgart based firm Coast Office Architecture. The modernistic, almost futuristic, monochrome meeting zone sets a cutting edge tone, and holds a sleek laptop bar and flat screen display monitors in a stretch of glossy black glass, integrating Microsoft’s . . .
The Delectable Hotel Du Cap Eden Rock
The amazing Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, on the southern tip of the Cap d’Antibes, on the Côte d’Azur between Nice and Cannes, gazes out over a magnificent Mediterranean Sea view and the Lérins Islands, and is backed by twenty-two acres of mature gardens and a green pine forest.
Casa de La Flora Resort in Khao Lak
In the stunning seaside resort of Khao Lak, Casa de La Flora hosts thirty-six contemporary cube villas that have been designed to envelop guests in style, comfort and privacy, whilst allowing them to experience the beautiful environment beyond. Located in the Takua Pa district in the Phang Nga province of Thailand, a series of luxury . . .
Starbucks Concept Store In Amsterdam
Amsterdam sees the dawn of a Starbucks brand reinvention that will span across Europe, conducted by Dutch-born concept design director, Liz Muller. The coffee giant has opened up several individualized concept stores recently, in various cities throughout the world, like the store made from shipping containers just outside of Seattle. Via Co.Design (Photography by Rien . . .
Austrian Newspaper Wirtschafts Blatt Offices
Working with designers IDFL, leading Austrian newspaper Wirtschafts Blatt set out to create a workspace that embodied their brand throughout its architecture, furniture design, color palette and interior graphics. The key brief was to ‘Change to a new spirit”, requiring dynamic use of space and introduction of fresh ambiance for a motivational and quality environment . . .
LEGO Office Denmark
Located in Billund, Denmark, this LEGO office is intended to be a place of creativity, innovation, and judging by the incorporation of a huge slide leading to the collaboration areas, fun! Via
Villa Escudero with the Waterfalls Restaurant
Villa Escudero is located in Quezon Province, Philippines, offering a vast hacienda filled with comfortable rooms, and a museum of curious things. Perhaps the most curious thing at the villa is the amazing Waterfalls Restaurant, where lunch is served against an impressive backdrop of thundering clear spring water. Grass fringed buffet stations and bamboo dining . . .
Google’s London Offices: Revamped Level, ‘L4’
Last week, Google staff at London headquarters in Victoria made their way up to the brand new fourth floor, former engineering level, ‘L4’. This amazing space laughs in the face of a general consensus that fun workplaces harm productivity. This is an environment that focuses on creativity, comfort and openness. The open plan space creates . . .
Paradise In Maldives: Six Senses Resort, Laamu
Poised serenely over majestic turquoise waters, a palm fringed villa with sea suspended hammocks, padded day beds, and dining above a window of bright lagoon, awaits you at the Six Senses Resort in Laamu, Maldives. Built from sustainable materials, these unvarnished beachfront and overwater villas offer a chic picture of paradise. Six waterside and over . . .