Incredible Office Space Abundant in Light and Great Design

The PONS + HUOT Offices by French architecture practice Pottgiesser could be considered a contemporary equilibrated combination of styles for the headquarters of two companies, Pons and Huot. The space is compartmented into two horizontal planes, with a wooden platform that serves both as ceiling and as desk surface. Housed in a restored 19th century industrial hall, the office is supported by a steel frame covered in self-cleaning glass. A solid oak platform acts both as a working surface for the offices and as the ceiling for meeting rooms recreational room and restrooms located just below. The four lateral sides feature spaces for archives, cloakrooms and the kitchen. The unique organic arrangement serpents along the interior, creating separate office spaces with an intricate pattern. Transparent plexiglas domes delimitate each office space. Ficus panda trees with disguised planters offer the feeling of a luscious open space, filled with light and vegetation. (Photos by Luc Boegly)

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Office Building Renovation Ideas in Austin

Renovated by Lake Flato Architects in collaboration with the Bommarito Group, the below office building is the new headquarters of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Situated in the 1950s Gulf Coast Paper Co. warehouse in the East Austin, Texas, the office is finished in modern with full positive energy. This office building is fulfilled with light from two angles, the façade and the roof that could supply enough sunlight for the whole room. The renovation provides a new life and energy for the building and neighborhood as well. The new building contains office space, meeting rooms, dining facilities, an in-house gymnasium, open-air courtyard and parking for the staff of 62. With a LEED Gold certification, the 2010 Austin Constructor Annual Award, Outstanding Construction Award and the 2010 Texas Society of Architects / AIA Design Award, this office building could bring joy, organization and visual contentment to the staff and also visitors. The Lance Armstrong Foundation is very well-organized and has a creative indoors neighborhood that is filled with light and joyful. Enjoy the pictures below. [Photography by Hester + Hardaway]

 

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Modern Office Studio by Dom Arquitectur

Pablo Serrano from Dom Arquitectura shared with us his company’s latest project, Dom Studio. Here is the description we received: “The place previously used as a store was completely isolated from the outside. The first action we took, was to open the interior space, both the street and the garden outside, so we designed a completely open iron carpentry without studs, continuous glass, providing natural light throughout the space. All the iron is dark graphite gray painted, the same of the interior furnishings. Across the glass surface is placed inside a dark gray screens, to control the space privacy. As an Architecture studio, we have some details about the profession, the graphite color of the pencils, the prevailing white color like papers and  the wall parallel. The inner wall of the room is very irregular. With the goal of unifying all these folds we proposed some horizontal lines that run through the wall, painted with the same gray that the continuous pavement. This allowed us to provide the wall of a plot in a gradient, starting with getting rid continuously and gradually breaking up until the roof.

We designed the Lamp that runs around the room, from some sections of iron flowing freely through space with convergent and divergent lines, covered with several sheets of folded parchment paper, as if they were the same studio plans. The result is an enlightened paper path through the roof. We propose an edge distribution, where 6 tables are based on the exterior side. In the same perimeter is placed a dark shelf, which runs through the space, we can put all the books and magazines worker’s hand and hide the strip turn providing the facilities for all jobs. The bathroom walls are painted in dark as an inverted room, the plan annotation dimensions remain drawn on the walls. We wanted to give this space a color point, and we loved the Campari lamp by Ingo Maurer, finally decided to reinterpret it with green Carlsberg bottles.”

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