Office Snapshots has the scoop on holiday home rental company, Airbnb’s move to new premises. The new space means the team can spread their wings over 25,000 square feet, in airy surroundings designed by Michael Garcia and Farid Tamjidi of Garcia-Tamjidi. The impressive headquarters can be found in Potrero Hill, San Francisco, with light flowing . . .
Category: Non-Residential
Pictures and articles about non residential buildings including creative offices and prisons!
Apple’s Beautiful Retail Stores
In 2000, Apple (under Steve Jobs) decided they needed to completely rethink their retail strategy. They no longer wanted to be dependent on other retailers to sell their products and yearned to offer customers a unique experience. For this they put together a team of retail/architecture experts and embarked on a journey to design the . . .
Inspiring Coworking Spaces
Wikipedia defines co-working as ‘a style of work which involves a shared working environment, sometimes an office, yet independent activity’. Considering the fact that there are more and more people telecommuting these days, this is a concept that is quickly gaining traction especially among techies, internet entrepreneurs and freelancers. Today we are featuring co-working spaces . . .
Inside The Cool Digs Of Rackspace
Offices are spaces that people often find dull and boring. Not only because we relate them with work that needs to be done, but for the hours many of us are desperately counting until that wonderful moment when the little handle on that clock hits 5. But what if we have an office with areas . . .
Beautiful Office Interiors of a Canadian Media Company
Contemporist tips us on this fantastic office space of Canadian company Astra Media designed by Lemay Associés. Planned to accomodate 350 employees in 4 flours, this headquarters reflect the company’s intention to transform to a more youthful and modern image. Check it out… The colors kind of remind us of eBay’s workplace prototype.
The New Stuttgart City Library
How often do you read? Of course, we’re not talking about our articles, because we are sure you love to go through those, we are talking about physical(read non electronic) books. Books you can lend from a library, take home, snuggle in a warm blanket and lose yourself in some quality spent time with your . . .
Fancy Restaurant Interior Design In Tehran
Now here is a something fancy from Iran. Expose designers were involved in planning these spaces and one of the top design requirements was to facilitate easy cleaning of the space under tables. Expose achieved this by making ‘floating’ tables and also designed matching seating. We are not going to say this would be the . . .
Phill: A Hangout for the Whole Family
How do you design a hangout for the entire family? Ask nuca studio this question and you will get ‘phill’ as your answer. Equipped with a playground, cafe, restaurant and a multipurpose room that accommodates anything from puppet shows to ballets, the phill family lounge appeals to both young and old alike. This Romanian hangout . . .
Beautiful Offices of Stelmat Teleinformatica
We love this cute chirpy headquarters of Brazilian telecommunication company Stelmat Teleinformatica. This is not your average boring office. Designed by About:Blank Architecture, the office stands out with its modern eco-friendly approach to office design. Green roofs, photovoltaic panels, rainwater reuse and sun-shading techniques like brise-soleil, among others, maximize efficiency and reduce resource consumption. There . . .
Maharajas’ Express: A Luxury Train in India
Featuring 14 carriages, two fine dining rooms, a bar and lounge, ornate and sumptuous interiors, as well as a vibrant exterior design, the Maharajas’ Express luxury train must be the fanciest and most exciting way to see quite a bit of India. The tour packages map out “journeys” for train guests, so you won’t have . . .
Dreamhost Office
Not all web hosting companies have cool offices. There can be exceptions but they are not that common. That is why we are delighted to bring you another one of these rarities: Dreamhost’s Office. Designed by Studio O+A, our former web host’s (yes, Home Designing started off on them!) base in La Brea, California sports . . .
The Viceroy Hotel, Bali
We received a lot of queries about an image featured in our Dozen Spots That Make Us Say ‘Wow!’ post we did a while back. That particular image, the 2nd one in that post, was uncredited as we couldn’t pin a source to it back then. Given the attention it was receiving we decided to . . .
The Sensational Grace Hotel, Santorini Islands
The Grace is perfect in Greece. This 5-star, luxury boutique hotel with branches in the world’s most desirable destinations, looks amazing combined with the backdrop of the beautiful, blue and white Santorini islands, the southernmost islands of the Cyclades. With its excellent location in the picturesque village of Imervigli above the Caldera (a centuries-old deep . . .
New eBay Workplace Prototype
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates recently collaborated with eBay’s Internal Workplace Resources Team to create a workplace prototype that lays emphasis on flexible work areas. The goal was to create spaces that could be reconfigured easily by teams to suit their needs. The design process began with a company-wide survey with more than 5,000 eBay employees . . .
Google Russia Offices
You haven’t seen them all yet. Google’s Russia Offices in St. Petersburg and Moscow, both designed by Swiss firm, Camenzind Evolution, are as vibrant and exotic as the unique cities they are located in. Similar to AOL’s offices and Pixar’s offices, both of which we have featured here, Google’s spaces include meeting dens that foster . . .
AOL’s New Palo Alto Offices
AOL, the company that now owns the world’s biggest tech blog, gadget blog and political blog, revealed its new headquarters in Palo Alto, California. After putting Studio O+A (the same folks who redid Facebook’s headquarters) in charge, AOL’s new look is a conglomeration of the 1980’s corporate world vibe, raw concepts and materials, with a . . .
Apple’s Spaceship Inspired Future Cupertino Offices
Earlier this week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced plans for a spaceship-like new office campus in Cupertino, California that would hold up to 12,000 Apple employees and completely revamp the way the company operates. Jobs presented the Cupertino City Council with plans for the four-story, eco-friendly offices reportedly designed by world-renowned Norman Foster Architects. The . . .
Pixar’s Office Interiors
Have you ever wondered what the interiors of the headquarters of one of the most prominent animation studios in the U.S. looks like? More importantly, what would it be like to work for a company like Pixar? We take you through their office interiors and try to imagine what a typical workday would look like . . .
Skype’s Stockholm Office Sparks with Contrast
You may already be familiar with Skype’s US offices, which we featured a while back, but have you seen their Stockholm digs yet? Working for a tech company such as Skype, one would expect eclectic interiors. In the case of Skype’s new Stockholm setup, the results don’t disappoint. Colorful designs and fantastic murals line otherwise . . .
Belkin’s Bright and Colorful Office Spaces
Tech accessory maker Belkin’s headquarters developed by South California based builders HBC looks like a fun place to work. Spanning an area of 80,000 square feet, the office area includes an open ceiling design, systems furniture, private, exterior offices, conference rooms and a 7000 square feet (beautiful) cafeteria and kitchen. Bright lighting and warm welcoming . . .
Villa in Mykonos
Mykonos is a tiny little island in Greece that has a modest population of about ten thousand people. Though small in area, the island is a popular tourist destination thanks to its fabulous beaches and vibrant night life. Much frequented by cruise ships and jet-setters, Mykonos indulges its visitors with luxury destinations that are blessed . . .