Projects

When our friends at Vitra offered us an opportunity to head out to Finland to take a look at all things Artek, we were hardly going to say no! So when we received the exciting itinerary for the trip, which included a tour of the new Artek workspace in the centre of Helsinki, we ran and packed our bags.

Following a complete refurbishment and extension from dMFK Architects, The Office Group’s York House is now open in King’s Cross.

This might sound a little confused – after all this issue’s Spotlight feature is all about coworking – but when we read that, ‘Origin is not a coworking office’, we knew we should not only take a look – but feature it alongside the best of the UK’s coworking facilities.

As we’ve already alluded to in this ‘coworking issue’, flexible workspace offerings come in a variety of shapes, sizes and styles, offering an even greater range of flexible terms, facilities and styles. While coworking continues to make a lot of the headlines, the rise and dramatic improvement in the serviced space offering has often flown under the radar. Well, we think it’s time to put that right.

Jackdaw has completed the interior design for a new ‘café style’ office and event space for design studio Idean, who regularly hosts workshops and events for its global clientele.

When multiple Mixology award winning Squire & Partners alert us to a project, we tend to come running. There’s a reason why more than one of our judging panels have chosen the firm’s schemes as winners.

The world of advertising is a fast moving one, and so creative innovation agency, Iris, knows that it needs to continuously progress and evolve in order to stay ahead of the game – hence the business’ tag line, ‘For the forward’. Iris doesn’t just apply this philosophy to its clients, but to its own business too.

Unless you’ve been stuck on a (love) island for the last couple of years, you can’t have failed to notice that HSBC UK chose to move its headquarters out of London and up to the ‘second city’ of Birmingham. Furthermore, if you’ve been to the centre of Birmingham recently, you’ve probably also noticed that there’s a ‘tiny bit’ of regeneration going on.

Although our focus is very much on the UK market, when our friends at Gensler London scooped the Mixology award for Medium Commercial Project earlier this year, we wanted to find out more about their incredible scheme – regardless of its geography.