Office Design Blog

Formerly known as Westinghouse Systems, Invensys Rail is a UK based company that offers state of the art railway control and communication solutions.  Operating from several offices around the UK, Invensys Rail frequently calls upon the services of 3Sphere, one of the UK’s leading independent office design companies, who are responsible for several inspirational working environments around London including Guardian News and Media, Santander, DC Advisory Partners, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and Heidrick & Struggles.

Among the numerous design concepts completed by 3Sphere is this amazing speculative feasibility project commissioned by Invensys, who wanted to explore an office design that retained a contemporary and minimalist working environment, while also incorporating a diesel locomotive train simulator and railway turntable right in the middle of the office. The result is this stunning futuristic suite of renders that do a good job of highlighting the creative flair 3Sphere built their reputation on.
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Nested inside a historic building in uptown Minneapolis that sat vacant for almost 20 years previously housing a print shop and a car dealership, you will now find the very cool offices of the advertising agency Mono.  In a neighborhood known for funky shops, eateries and apartments, the entrance to Mono’s office is easily distinguishable by its boldly colored blue door, which upon entering leads visitors down a path of finished concrete floors that still have flicks of color from the old print shop.

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The popular social networking site Twitter recently relocated its office headquarters to a space previously occupied by Bebo in San Francisco’s SoMa district.  The interior design of the new office was spearheaded by Sara Morishige Williams, whose goal was to “bring the outdoors in, while making the space playful yet useful and sustainable”.  The entire office is equipped with wifi connectivity, and has several fun features such as a dj booth, arcade, custom concrete conference tables, and of course plenty of playful bird depictions. Here’s some pictures taken by the company’s own employees.

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The popular social networking site Facebook recently employed the services of San Francisco design firm Studio O+A to design their new corporate headquarters in Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park, and the results are not surprisingly quite impressive.

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The office of the Syzygy advertising agency in Hamburg offers a sleek work environment built to foster close employee cooperation by reinforcing a feeling of everyone being in the same boat.  The office was created by Christoph Roselius and Julian Hillenkamp of Hamburg’s eins:eins architecten, and features smoothly curved white bullpens that are fully configurable.

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