These ultra modern, cool and comfy work places don’t just show us all the places we wished we worked, they provide bags of vibrant inspiration to implement in our very own homes! We’re going to take a tour through vibrant sitting rooms, open plan layouts, colourful decor palettes, modern furniture arrangements, cool lighting solutions, and . . .
Tag: tech-office
Product Of The Week: A Retro-Cute Mechanical Keyboard
Keyboards offer a unique way to personalize your workspace. If you have a thing for retro flair, check out this cute package from Lofree. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading: 30 Cool Computer Keyboards To Help You Match Your Workspace To Your Decor
Facebook’s Menlo Park Campus Interiors
The old Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park has become the new Facebook campus, after the ever growing company speedily outgrew two other company headquarters. The social media giant–who recently celebrated its 10th birthday–needed a place that would fit their culturally relevant zeal, as well as promoting self expression and idea sharing. To complete the . . .
Apple’s Headquarters [New Pictures & Video]
Way back in June 2011 we brought you early screen grabs from the presentation of Apple’s Spaceship Inspired Future Cupertino Offices, and today we are tantalizing your tastebuds again with Apple’s updated images of the headquarters. The four story extravaganza, thought to be pegged for completion in 2016, has allegedly been taken on by Norman . . .
Google’s Tokyo Presence: YouTube and Google Tokyo Offices
Since the first startup bubble that swept through Northern California, technology offices have long held court as the most fun, both in design and culture. Despite the behemoth it has become, Google has remained true to this startup quirk, creating offices around the world that have funky and surprising features and design elements around every . . .
Evernote Office Interiors
When it comes to designing an office space for an up and coming company, designers have to think outside of the box and within a budget. As we have seen so many times, for tech companies taking the business world by storm, the concept of a stuffy office filled with gray cubicles is a thing . . .
Cool Startup Tech Office Of The Week: Kayak
Boasting three decades of industry-based experience and a flare for large-scale projects, ACTWO Architects are the brains behind this week’s innovative startup tech office belonging to new kid on the block, Kayak. Providing online services in travel, it is little coincidence that some critics have likened Kayak’s sleek new headquarters to some of the world’s . . .
Google Offices in Tel Aviv, Israel
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 . . .
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 . . .
Inside Amazon
Though corporate warehouses aren’t the usual fodder for a blog like ours we just had to stop for a second and take in what we are seeing here. The insides of the belly of the world’s most popular commerce site. It is like something you aren’t supposed to see but now that you have come . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
Airbnb’s Beautiful Offices
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .