The employees of such offices definitely do not suffer from the formality of working in offices. The original design and decor make these offices quite unusual. All office workers (and not only them) are allowed to dream! :)
Paris office of Pons and Huot (France)
Usually in huge offices where several dozen or even hundreds of people work at the same time, it makes no sense to even talk about personal space for an employee. But the Paris office of Pons and Huot is not like that at all! After all, here each employee has his own dome, which is his little fortress.
One Shelley Street - Sydney (Australia)
Offices hanging in the air.
Pionen - Stockholm (Sweden)
The office of the Swedish Internet provider is located in a Cold War bomb shelter. Therefore, is it any wonder that the design of this office is made in the appropriate style - as if there is the last underground shelter of earthlings after a global catastrophe that happened on the surface of the planet.
Parliament - Portland (USA)
Country house style office
Nykredit - Copenhagen (Denmark)
Another office in limbo
Twitter - San Francisco (USA)
Work is in full swing
And they work
Twitter office was visited by Dmitry Medvedev, who actively uses it
Meeting room
Airbnb - San Francisco (USA)
Office of Invention Land
The office is made in the form of a cave, in the recesses of which there are workplaces for employees. And for greater beauty behind them is a small waterfall.
Office of the Goethe Institute
No, the office of the Goethe Institute in Barcelona is not located in the virtual space at all. It's just that his reception area looks like you've stepped into the Grid from Tron and Tron 2: Legacy. Moreover, thanks to the projectors, it sometimes seems as if these walls are moving.
TWIGA office
The owners of the Russian company TWIGA lived in Tanzania for a long time, from where they took their love for giraffes with them to Moscow (even the word “twiga” itself is translated from Swahili as “giraffe”). In the same office of this company, you can find 836 figurines and images of this wonderful animal.
Another Invention Land office
Invention Land seems to believe that its employees must work quickly and with focus. How, for example, drivers of racing cars work. Because one of her offices is in the middle of a huge toy auto track.
Onebestway office
But the Onebestway company decided to change the appearance not of the office, but of its employees. The management of this English company invited its office workers to spend "Naked Friday", that is, on the last working day of one of the weeks, come to work completely naked. The reason for this unusual move was the struggle with the low working spirit that was established in the company during the World Economic Crisis. The staff supported this proposal. Morale really went up. And not only him!
Who came up with the idea that offices should be stuffy boxes? Choosing work and space for it, we choose a way of life. It's no secret that we spend most of our lives in the office. Therefore, it is very important for us to create comfortable working spaces in the company, where an employee can not only work, but also relax. And sometimes a skating rink even appears in our office.
Uncomfortable offices have a very bad effect on the motivation of employees. Therefore, the office should become a space for creativity, communication, relaxation and productivity. But this is possible only with its detailed thoughtfulness. From design to functionality. You have probably read about our Moscow office many times, so now we will look at some of the most unusual offices of companies around the world. They are not only comfortable to work in, but sometimes even want to live. An office can be a home. And we will prove it to you.
Pixar Cartoon Office (USA, California)
The most commercially successful animation studio in the world is located in Emeryville, California. It has been owned by Walt Disney for more than 10 years, but it has not lost its originality at all. And this affected the appearance of the main office. The concept of the office was openness, spontaneity and sociability. Its formation was influenced by Steve Jobs, who was convinced that all the best ideas come spontaneously and during a casual conversation or meeting. Therefore, the atrium became the central place in the office. It's big, there's a lot of people running around all the time, exchanging ideas, having organized meetings or brainstorming sessions. Due to the “enormity” of the atrium, not every employee will dare to move through it on foot, so the majority ride scooters.
The characters of the most famous Pixar cartoons will meet you everywhere. At the entrance to the building is the world-famous Luxo Jr light bulb (yes, it has a name). The atrium is no exception. Its design is constantly changing depending on which cartoon is currently in production. On any floor you can see a lot of wall posters with the most famous heroes of the studio. And a huge warehouse of toys keeps a whole story about how the prototype for each character was developed.
But the working space is located not only inside, but also outside - on the green territory of the office. Conferences, presentations and performances are regularly held in a special amphitheater. Employees take breaks during breaks. At their service - sports and a large selection of video games. Well, a huge cinema for free use, of course.
Printed office of Dubai Future Foundation (UAE, Dubai)
To date, there are many methods of construction. But the most fashionable of them is 3D printing. And the UAE government decided to succeed here too by implementing the world's first 3D printed office building project. It is located within the Emirates Towers complex.
The office was created using a huge 3D printer measuring 6 × 36 × 12 meters. The building was printed by extruding a cement mixture layer by layer. For smaller parts, small 3D printers were used. The semi-circular shape of the building was chosen for safety and sustainability.
The total area of the office is 250 square meters. It was planned that the building would be erected in two weeks, but it took 17 days to complete it. 3D printing has halved the costs that would have been required with traditional construction methods. The ambitions of the UAE are very high, the country plans to become a world leader in the field of 3D printing.
Stationery Factory: Kickstarter Office (USA, New York)
Once the most famous crowdfunding company was located in an apartment building on the Lower East Side. Now she has found a house in the Greenpoint area on the site of a pencil factory. In order for a creative startup to survive in a huge metropolis like New York, an ecosystem was created that includes natural wood furniture and a rooftop garden supported by a rainwater harvesting and spraying system.
This garden is not just decoration. There you can find many vegetables and edible herbs. Or even listen to ficus monologues. Sounds pretty weird? But don't we know that Kickstarter allows you to breathe life into the most unusual projects from around the world. And one of these projects was MIDI Sprout. His equipment measures the electrical current in plants and converts it into sound waves.
The garden is inhabited not only by "talking" plants, but also by dinosaurs from 32 Square, which raised about $9,000 on the platform.
Let's go back inside the office. The most symbolic area of the building is , it is modeled after the diner where the co-founders of the company met for the first time. And for leisure, employees can use the lounges, slot machines or walk through their own gallery. It exhibits a wide variety of Kickstarter-famous art objects.
Merging with nature in the office of Selgas Cano Architecture (Spain, Madrid)
The best motivation for creativity is freedom in all its manifestations. And even if the office is very cool, then most often it is limited by the height and density of the urban jungle. Therefore, the concept of an office in nature comes to the rescue.
The office of the architectural bureau is located in a forest near Madrid. From the side, the building resembles a large glass pipe. The creators wanted the office to get a lot of sunlight, but that the workplaces were not under direct rays. Therefore, we decided to make the building half glass.
Part of the building is buried in the ground, which creates the effect of complete immersion in the forest environment. Due to this, the desktops are located almost on the same level with the grass. Thanks to the windows, employees can enjoy beautiful views and fresh forest air.
Travel around the world in an hour: Airbnb office (USA, San Francisco)
Airbnb's corporate identity is diverse, and the reason is simple: a huge database of houses and apartments for rent. Each room is decorated in the style of the most inspiring interiors of real houses and apartments around the world. Therefore, the usual movement around the office turns into a real trip around the world.
Cabinets take on the shape of a real apartment only if it has a high rating and is in great demand on the site. Then all the magic is transferred to the hands of the designers - and voila: a simple conference room turns into a room from Johannesburg. But only designers are not always engaged in the design of rooms. The spaces on the third floor can also be designed by the employees themselves in order to create a “piece of home” at work.
One of the main attributes of travel: what is it? Letters and postcards from abroad! Therefore, the office has a mailbox in which you can drop a letter of any content. The feeling of travel is created and reaches the recipient much faster.
Huge open spaces flooded with light are not the only place where employees work. Entering the office, each of them leaves their things at the landing station (landing place), and then chooses a suitable place. A wide variety of rooms allows you to find a place with any level of light, comfort, noise and a suitable interior. Only the demand for these rooms is quite high, so it is worth booking them in advance.
And yet, do you need an office? WordPress does without it
Automattic management has decided to close its office. It's just that no one came. And so it was decided to no longer spend money on office rent and invest it in something more worthwhile. All employees will be required to work remotely.
Most often, colleagues gathered to discuss joint projects and organize events; the rest of the time they worked at home. The formation of this habit was influenced by the policy of the company, which encourages work in other places. If an employee likes to spend time in a co-working space, then he is paid a stipend to cover the costs. If he decided to equip his office at home, then he is also entitled to payments. If he ran to work at Starbucks, the company would pay for the coffee.
Company events are held in different parts of America, so all flights are also paid by the company, and all working planning meetings are held online. Many employees are hired remotely, without a personal conversation - after an online interview.
In the office or without it, all the same, a competent company policy and good specialists create a working atmosphere. A properly structured workflow can go beyond the usual office, regular schedule and formal relationships. This allows such companies to create a unique and useful product that is used not only by ordinary consumers, but also by employees outside the office.
The office is where we spend about the same amount of time as we spend in bed. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that many employers are trying in every possible way to make their offices as comfortable as possible. After all, the productivity of employees depends on it. Someone is trying to bring offices to nature, and someone is trying to recreate nature in the "urban jungle". Here are just a dozen of some of the most interesting offices in the world.
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1. Office in a toy car track.
2. Invention Land seems to believe that its employees must work quickly and with concentration. How, for example, drivers of racing cars work. Because one of her offices is in the middle of a huge toy auto track.
3. Stationery office.
4. It would seem, what could be more commonplace than stationery, of which there are at least a dime a dozen in every office? But it turns out that they can perfectly decorate the office space. True, for this it is necessary to increase these items tenfold. This is exactly what Radford Wallis did, designing the Giant Office Supplies office building in London.
5. Gingerbread house.
6. The already familiar company Invention Land tries to please all its employees. For male employees, she created an office in the form of an autotrack, and for female employees, a pavilion in the form of a gingerbread house. And inside this room everything is so ... girlish!
7. Office with personal space.
8. Usually in huge offices where several dozen or even hundreds of people work at the same time, it makes no sense to even talk about personal space for an employee. But the Paris office of Pons and Huot is not like that at all! After all, here each employee has his own dome, which is his little fortress.
9. Pirate ship.
10. Invention Land clearly dreams of being the most creative company in the world. This is the third item on our list of the most unusual offices in the world is the office of this company. One of the workspaces in Invention Land is made in the form of a pirate ship with a formidable one-eyed plastic captain at the helm. Well, jobs for employees are located on the deck of this brig. Moreover, barrels are used here as desktops. True, with special countertops.
11. Post-apocalyptic office.
12. The new office of the Swedish Internet provider Bahnhof Office is located in a Cold War bomb shelter. Therefore, is it any wonder that the design of this office is made in the appropriate style - as if there is the last underground shelter of earthlings after a global catastrophe that happened on the surface of the planet.
13. Office cave.
14. Well, another office of Invention Land. This one is made in the form of a cave, in the recesses of which there are workplaces for employees. And for greater beauty behind them is a small waterfall.
15. Interactive office.
16. No, the office of the Goethe Institute in Barcelona is not located in the virtual space at all. It's just that his reception area looks like you've stepped into the Grid from Tron and Tron 2: Legacy. Moreover, thanks to the projectors, it sometimes seems as if these walls are moving.
17. Giraffe office.
18. The owners of the Russian company TWIGA lived in Tanzania for a long time, from where they took their love for giraffes with them to Moscow (even the word “twiga” is translated from Swahili as “giraffe”). In the same office of this company, you can find 836 figurines and images of this wonderful animal.
19. Naked office.
20. But the Onebestway company decided to change the appearance of not the office, but its employees. The management of this English company invited its office workers to spend "Naked Friday", that is, on the last working day of one of the weeks, come to work completely naked. The reason for this unusual move was the struggle with the low working spirit that was established in the company during the World Economic Crisis. The staff supported this proposal. Morale really went up. And not only him!
Most often, the word "office" is associated with a dull look of the room - gray walls, ordinary tables, computers, stacks of papers and employees doing their work with a absent look. But not for those people who work in companies, which will be discussed below. They were lucky to work in the best offices in the world with an unusual original design. Going to work like a holiday is about them.
is a kind of visiting card of any company, and the mood and performance of employees largely depend on its condition.
Best and Unusual Office Designs
Google office in California
Let's start with a company whose creativity has long been legendary outside of our universe. This is a company Google. As far as the behavior of all the staff in this company is liberal (there are practically no restrictions and prohibitions), the design of the offices can be called just as unusual.
The California headquarters of Google is a real separate world, where a special atmosphere reigns. Separate buildings in which Googlers work stretched over several blocks. There is everything here - cafes, swimming pools, showers, massage rooms, as well as rooms for relaxation and games.
On the street in the courtyard of the office, onions, beets, strawberries and other plants grow in special pots. Why - remains a mystery, apparently, this is another way for Google to stand out from the rest.
Google office in Moscow
Moscow office of Google has a completely different look. The main design concept is an office “with a Russian soul”, so each room is decorated in the style of works (films and cartoons) familiar to every Russian person: “38 Parrots”, “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel”, “12 Chairs”, “Snake Gorynych” and many others. And the most favorite room among employees is the recreation area called "Lukomorye", where you can drink a cup of tea or coffee right under the green oak.
Yandex office in Moscow
Another popular search engine, Yandex, there is also something to surprise in terms of office design solutions. On the street in front of the main entrance to the office there are two life-size figures of horses, painted in a very original way. Inside the office itself, the main design goal was to create a homely, relaxed atmosphere. Soft outlines and fresh shades - that's what immediately draws attention. The Yandex office can be called truly fresh – the abundance of living indoor plants simply charges employees everywhere with the energy of nature.
Yandex office in Kyiv
And a few more photos of one of Kyiv offices of Yandex. It is the youngest of all existing Yandex offices in the Ukrainian capital. Designers paid special attention to cozy details, which made the overall atmosphere quite pleasant.
Office of the First Patent Company
Office, which is impossible not to pay attention, belongs to a Moscow company "First Patent Company". The range of services of this enterprise covers the registration of various trademarks (including non-traditional ones), the evaluation of intellectual property objects, the registration of copyrights and other services related to patent activities. However, now is not about that.
The company office is a great example of how not to let your employees even mention the phrase "grey working days" in their vocabulary. In such an office, working days will definitely not be boring. The brightest, in our opinion, element of the decor of the room is a wooden pole with pointers. And instead of a picture, they decided to hang a mammoth skull on the wall (they say it’s real), and they also approached the design of an object familiar to all office workers - a water cooler - in a very original and humorous way.
Office of the company "Three Rings"
Next, let's stop at the office of the company "Three Rings". The company develops design for computer games, so everything in the office should inspire employees to new ideas and develop creative thinking. It is difficult to determine the style of the office interior. It has everything from modern abstract to traditional aesthetic forms.
ABBYY Russia office
Looking at the office of the manufacturer of dictionaries Lingvo and other products ABBYY Russia you can’t immediately guess what the main activity of its employees is. Here, employees can draw on the walls, lie down in a hammock, work out on simulators, and play board games. It cannot be said that the design of ABBYY Russia is very original, but there is still something memorable in it.
Vkontakte office
Social network office "In contact with" is located in St. Petersburg in one of the business centers. The reception evokes a rather gloomy mood, but the modern design is still present. But from one of the negotiation rooms "smells" of the real Middle Ages. It is noteworthy that the rest of the meeting rooms are quite ordinary and made in a modern style.
The relaxation room resembles a hookah (although, how do you know what the employees are doing in it? :). Often, scraps of ideas that suddenly arose among employees of the company can be seen right on the walls of the office. Also, if an employee at the height of the working day wants to admire the city landscapes, he always has the opportunity to get directly from the office to the roof of the building along a spiral staircase.
