From the Metropolis Archives: Designing the First "Googleplex" Office
Originally published in July 2006, this article explores an early exemplar of tech workplaces: Clive Wilkinson Architects' design for Google's Mountain View HQ.
Workplace Architecture
Using CLT, Hacker Architects Helps Connect a Workplace to Its Surrounding Nature Preserve
The First Tech Federal Credit Union office—at five stories and 156,000 square feet—became America’s largest CLT-framed building by area when it opened this past summer.
In Atlanta, Gensler Designs One Workplace for Three Different Companies
The firm recently completed an adaptive-reuse project in Stockyards Atlanta to colocate advertising giant IPG’s sister agencies Fitzco, Weber Shandwick, and Momentum.
ODA Designs New Crystalline Facade for 10 Jay Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO
The project, which also included extensive restoration work and a new lobby, prepared the 230,000-square-foot former warehouse for new office tenants.
Harnessing Company Culture and Wellness for Workplace Design
A Think Tank talk, hosted at HOK’s Los Angeles office, challenged the assumptions behind common workplace paradigms, like plunking a café or gym in an office.
WeWork Is Retraining a Generation of Architects to Think in Terms of Data
Data influences WeWork’s real estate deals, construction sequence, and design choices. There’s a sense that acquiring data literacy makes architecture relevant in a tech-dominated era.
Gensler Creates a Showcase of Sustainable Design Near Shanghai
Johnson Controls' 378,000-square-foot Asia Pacific Headquarters aims to be a new symbol of China’s environmental coming-of-age.
Year in Review 2018: Putting Design Back to Work
Our contributors comment on an event or a moment from the last year that demanded more of how we should practice, frame, and respond to design.
How Gensler Updated the Inimitable Ford Foundation Headquarters
The 415,000-square-foot, $200-million renovation was prompted by code violations, but the subsequent update also honored its architects' original designs.
SageGlass Harmony Selected for Innovative Swiss Office Tower
sponsored by: Remove the excess. It’s a good way to approach most things in life; A&D is no exception. This mantra helped Yann Guyonvarc’h, owner of Millennium (a smart office building set to be completed in Crissier, Switzerland, in 2020),…
Forest for the Trees: Perkins+Will Brings Biophilic Design to an Atlanta Office
The facade of flooring company Interface's new HQ doesn't just symbolize biophilia: It mimics the dappled light created by a forest canopy.
Harvard Opens Snøhetta-Designed Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits
Dubbed HouseZero, the building uses data-collecting sensors, passive ventilation, low embodied energy materials, and geothermal wells, among other strategies.
Just In: Snøhetta Unveils New Design Proposal for Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building
After its first design proposal for the now-landmarked Postmodern icon incited outcry from preservationists, the firm has revealed a pared-down revision, one that invites history and the public back in.
A Healthy Return: The Business Case for Well-Being in the Workplace
Haworth's Houston showroom hosts an expert panel on designing offices that support today’s workers.
Rios Clementi Hale Studios' New L.A. Office Strives to Address Gentrification in a Changing Neighborhood
Since opening last summer in the city's Crenshaw neighborhood, the firm's super-flexible open office has opened itself to local students, artists, and organizations.
A Healthy Return: The Business Case for Well-Being in the Workplace
Haworth's Los Angeles office hosts an expert panel on designing offices that support today’s workers.
BIG Completes Pair of Skyscrapers in Shenzhen, China
The facade of the office towers, which contain approximately 1,000,000 square feet of space, features a low-tech solution to resisting solar heat gains.
A Healthy Return: The Business Case for Wellbeing in the Workplace
Haworth's Chicago showroom hosts an expert panel on designing offices that support today’s workers.
IDEO's Bold New Cambridge Office Uses Architecture to Join a Start-Up Community
Designed by Hacin + Associates, the new office enables collaboration between its teams while plugging into Boston’s burgeoning start-up and tech scene.
Mærsk Tower Revitalizes the Gloomy Research Campus in Copenhagen
Wrapped in 3,330 movable copper shutters that will weather to a green patina in the coming years, Mærsk Tower is an…
