“The new HED LA office is designed to foster creativity, promote collaboration, and support the well-being of our community. Activity is focused on the HUB: an open space that is the center of activity for the entire office. The HUB extends from one end of the building to the other. On one end is the central production facility, with the model shop/maker space, material library, pin-up spaces, interactive projection walls, and flexible team “war room” areas. On the opposite end is the “front door” of arrival, reception, display area, meeting rooms, lounging and casual seating for clients and staff. Connecting the two ends is the café, with and expansive island that functions as a community gathering space and collaboration zone with adjacent collaboration booths that add another layer of collaboration and community engagement. Free-address and dedicated workstation areas flow around the HUB, and pin-up and spontaneous collaboration spaces extend throughout the entire space. In addition, areas of more quiet focus ranging in size from individual to 2-4- and 4–6-person small huddles, to large and extra-large conference rooms are easily accessible from every part of the office.

COVID-19 hit in the middle of development of our design, and rather than stop or continue business as usual, the HED team used the challenge as an opportunity to study what the post-COVID-19 workspace could be. The design team’s focus changed from thinking of the office as a space to house all employees under one roof into a space to provide a HUB that reflects the HED LA culture. The team pivoted to augment the ability for the space to inspire and innovate. Private offices were eliminated, shared spaces were increased, and the entire office space was transformed into an active, collaborative HUB that attracts staff back to the office for the type of work it supports.”

• Location: Los Angeles, California
• Date completed: 2020
• Size: 19,900 square feet
• Design: HED

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“Save the children International is a charity that supports children; transforming their lives through better education, economic opportunities and health care. Their London head office was cluttered, dated and lacked agile areas and storage.

Echospace used Save the Children’s branding to generate a rejuvenated workspace, completely transforming the space; a 3D wall graphic conveying Save the Children’s timeline portrayed a contemporary twist on the traditional way of depicting graphics, multiple agile areas have been designed to create zones where collaborative working and informal meetings can take place. The interior now reflects Save the Children’s ideologies and allows them to work efficiently to transform children’s lives for the better.”

• Location: London, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 12,000 square feet
• Design: Echospace

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“West of England decided to relocate and redesign their office space to help them attract new talent and welcome in a new era for the business. West of England had recently undergone a rebrand and wanted their new office to represent their updated aesthetic. We collaborated with the client’s project team to understand the key messages they wanted to convey in their workspace and their commercial goals. As a leading insurance provider in the maritime industry, West of England were keen to have a nautical theme throughout the office, with model ships, meeting rooms named after famous harbours, and marketing collateral on display in the front of house waiting area.

Their office has been completely modernised and new ways of working are being encouraged with the introduction of breakout furniture and a variety of informal and formal meeting settings. An open plan working floor encourages movement and interaction and is helping to improve communication across the business,” says Oktra.

• Location: London, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 15,000 square feet
• Design: Oktra

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“Their chosen building is rated as a BREEAM excellent with low carbon standards. Echospace worked closely with Outreach; work-shopping ideas and solutions to develop their brief to facilitate rapid growth as well as maximising productivity.

The design scheme integrated Outreach’s branding into the design subsequently resulting in Outreach’s design standard for their European expansion. This consisted of depicting Outreach’s branding colours and shapes into the scheme, this was achieved through lighting, manifestation, furniture and finishes,” says Echospace.

• Location: London, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 12,000 square feet
• Design: Echospace

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“The offices are occupying 600 sqm on the 11th floors of an office building in the heart of the city. The beautiful 360° skyline view of the city was at the origin of the planning, and a special layout was conceived, in which the open spaces are delimited by different functions, such as meeting rooms, play areas etc. In this way, the different divisions can maintain their calm and quiet, while still staying connected. This plan also offers modularity to the spaces, and enables the placement of additional workstations in the future. This open plan layout, along with the fact that the space is occupying an entire floor, allows a fun round circulation in the office, encircling the core of the building.

The “public” spaces were planned to have a direct connection with the main entrance as well as with a sea view, offering a vast lounge area with an open kitchen and an island, multiple dining arrangements, a billiard table and a cosy sitting space with a sofa and hammocks.

The design style of the office is light and clean while introducing a sense of warmth; Light Scandinavian wood was used for the floors and almost all furniture. Colours were used sparingly, the palette being inspired by the graphic characteristics of the company.

The architecture studio partnered up with artist Dima Korma in order to create a two wall installations inspired by the company’s nature and the city view.”

• Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 6,458 square feet
• Design: Nurit Gil Architecture
• Photos: Yanai Ditch

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“Most of MBD’s clients and guests are pharmaceutical companies and researchers. It was important for us to create a place that understands how to integrate the functionality required for this kind of technical complex, with all that this entails.

At the same time, we wanted the space to be fun and pleasant to work in. We aimed to produce a hyper-modern working environment that meets the needs of the complex’s permanent employees.

Adherence to two principles, which are in opposition to one another, creates conflict. Our initial instinct is to try to choose between the two but the sense of logic does not like to confront contradictions. Sometimes the best possibility is to accept the complexity of the conflict. Balance is the product of conflict, it’s not a compromise- It is a creative solution and an aspiration to let everything fit.

This line of thought led us to design a space that brings together, materially and formally, elements that create contrast, and we accentuated the textures and the spots where the different elements meet, in an effort to produce a feeling that everything fits, as well as a meeting between two worlds. We preferred to minimize ornamentation and maintain minimalism, and we sought to create a feeling of quality. Many of the spaces in the complex are required to comply with stringent standards, and undergo significant wear and tear. The challenge was to maintain the aesthetic even in those spaces.

One of the best examples is the floor, we understood that we have to work with a plastic material that meets the strict requirements set forth in the planning process. We understood that the solution was inherent in this very limitation, with respect to the type of material. The floor became one of the project’s most dominant elements.

The project’s greatest success was creating a rich, high-quality space which combines a hyper-modern working environment together with a functional laboratory complex while maintaining a uniform language, and most of all the feeling that functionality does not have to come at the expense of superb design.”

• Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 22,600 square feet
• Design: EN Design Studio
• Photos: Gidon Levin

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“In a world of work that is constantly changing, there was no better time for Citrix to renew their strategic vision, transforming their organisation to deliver an employee experience consistent with their new way of working. This mission was key in unlocking the potential within their own organisation and better supporting their clients to innovate through change.

Cambridge Science Park has been home to the UK Citrix Research and Development team for over a decade. Having occupied approx. 30,000 sqft of space on the first floor, Citrix were keen to reconfigure their existing workplace and take over additional space on the ground floor to increase operations for their programming and engineering teams. Working in collaboration with Agents – Colliers International, Architects – Gensler and Engineers – Magnus Opifex, our brief was to create a vibrant and technology-enabled environment to facilitate engagement, creativity and productivity – reflective of the Citrix vision and culture.

Our understanding and translation of Gensler’s design intent was established during early consultation with the Citrix project team. Our objective was to interpret this vision and in turn, maximise the potential of the space in order for Citrix to establish a ‘new way of working’ and achieve their cultural aspirations.”

• Location: Cambridge, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 30,000 square feet
• Architecture: Gensler
• Design: Area

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“As we dove into Saatchi & Saatchi’s world and learned about how their teams developed projects it became clear that the creatives needed a safe space to build and break and re-build ideas and concepts before formally pitching to their project leads. The “idea” became its own constituent in the project – something to be considered spatially and solved for specifically. Whenever a design decision needed to be made, we returned to the question: “what is in the best service to protect the idea?”.

Our primary Client shared a desire to create a new home for the agency that supported exploration and fostered curiosity. The meandering path provides views across open “fields” (neighborhoods) and links up a series of protective seed pods (project areas / rooms) for safe and hidden idea generation; and garden walls to define the crops and showcase / pin-up the harvest. Apertures and strategic wayfinding allow the project to unfold rather than revealing itself all at once,” says Blitz.

• Location: El Segundo, California
• Date completed: 2020
• Size: 80,000 square feet
• Design: Blitz
• Photos: Bruce Damonte

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“Working in partnership with Boulter Mossman property consultants, we delivered a Cat A+ fit out at One Crown Court for a client of Priority Real Estate. Our client wanted to optimise their asset and speed up the occupancy process by offering neutral ‘plug and play’ space ready for new tenants to move in and customise. We worked closely with the client’s project manager to shape an office design that would appeal to businesses looking to let a flexible workspace immediately.

With the aim of creating a ‘blank slate’ for future tenants, we developed a modern, clean design that utilised elements of the previous Cat A fit out including acoustic Echophon panels. The gridded ceiling allowed us to easily integrate the design with the building services and add linear lighting across the working floor. Subtle design features inspired by the geometry of the building continue with Crittall-style glazing, hexagonal splashback tiles at the teapoint, and feature pendant lighting.

The front of house space includes a professional meeting suite and is designed with client-facing businesses in mind, while open plan desks, comfortable breakout spaces and a teapoint are available to employees. With the floor plate wrapping around a corner of the building, the office layout lends itself well to having a back of house meeting suite which provides a more intimate meeting setting softened with a teal feature wall and oak slatted ceiling.

By working collaboratively with all parties involved, we delivered an optimised office space that is sure to attract modern tenants looking to embrace agile work practices and the flexible work trends that are fast becoming integral to future-facing businesses.”

• Location: Clerkenwell – London, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 6,000 square feet
• Design: Oktra

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As a nod to where Billie products live, the office features subtle hints of sleek bathroom materials. This includes a curved tiled wall at the entrance of the space and textured glass blocks that form the walls of conference rooms. An open concept, designated bathroom vanity creates open space for the team to test new body care formulas.

Other key design features include venetian plaster that brings texture and warmth to the space and custom desks with fun table legs. When asked about the inspiration behind the design, Yarinsky shared, “We posed what we thought were 2 interesting questions: One was how can we challenge the use of traditional building materials that may be traditionally thought of as “masculine” or “feminine” and the other was how would you turn a bathroom into an office? We wanted to elevate the design in this new phase of our partnership, conveying the brand across every detail.”

These thoughtful details not only speaks to the conceptual designs but also reflects the flexibility that Billie’s leadership is championing for their team.“We intentionally created space to allow for ultimate flexibility, with desks and conference rooms across scale so people can spread out safely or quickly catch-up with a colleague. The office is made for transient collaboration, encouraging people to come into work without adding in walls or limitations.”

• Location: New York City, New York
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 13,000 square feet
• Design: Office of Tangible Space

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“Following the successful refurbishment of their London office, financial services group Sanlam decided to relocate their Bristol workspace and create a more cohesive space that matched the standard set by the London location. Our client was previously spread across multiple floors, and wanted to move to a single floor workspace that would open up lines of communication and break down silos in the business. Sanlam employed a workplace consultant to evaluate their spatial requirements and develop design concepts which we detailed and built at Temple Quay.

Having seen the impact of the London office design, Sanlam appointed us to fit out their Bristol office and employ the same design principles. This brief determined the aesthetics and types of working areas included in the new scheme, and drawing on our previous understanding of Sanlam’s business, our designers developed a clean, slick design that embodies our client’s brand.

The L-shaped floorplate of the space informed the location of work areas and the journey through the office. The new office layout is comprised of open plan desking with pockets of breakout space in the wings of the building, while a variety of meeting rooms are concentrated at the centre of the workplace and support both formal client meetings and informal team meetings. Flexibility is built into the architecture of the space, with folding walls in the meeting rooms which can be opened to create a large board room.

The new space considers Sanlam’s client journey; following an ascent via the glass lifts overlooking the lobby, visitors are met with a professional, on-brand reception and waiting area before being guided to the client suite. The first impression of Sanlam’s brand is consistent with that of the London office and predominantly uses their brand’s grey and blue with touches of blush and green to soften the corporate feel of the space.

Sanlam recognise the important of good office design in attracting and retaining talent, and wanted to provide their Bristol teams with a workplace that catered to their working needs as well as supporting their wellbeing. Staff now benefit from spacious desk areas with increased natural light and planting, a large breakout area with high-back sofas and soft seating for informal meetings, and a modern, bright teapoint that pulls people together at the core of the workspace.

By transitioning to a more open workplace that promotes transparency, Sanlam have encouraged cross-departmental communication and collaborative work practices. With the design and build of comfortable, welcoming workspaces for both Bristol and London teams, we have achieved Sanlam’s vision of an agile workplace that can simplify, harmonise and evolve people practices,” says Oktra.

• Location: Bristol, England
• Date completed: 2021
• Size: 20,000 square feet
• Design: Oktra
• Photos: Oliver Pohlmann

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