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Skype’s Offices – Stockholm

Stephen Searer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:00:11 +0000

Skype has been busy with their offices lately. Today’s is located in Stockholm, and a previous post showed off their latest space in Palo Alto. This project was completed by PS Arkitektur.

As you can see the space is very bright and colorful, though not quite as busy as Google’s Stockholm office space. Here is a some explanation of the design choices:

The office design is based on the spirit of Skype, how it is a useful and playful tool that connects the world. The in-between shapes of interconnected nodes has given us romboid and triangular shapes that is visible in the flooring and in the design of some of the hard furniture. The playful happy theme in colours and soft furniture comes from the Skype graphics and the Skype cloud logo is reinterpreted as cloud-shaped lighting throughout the office space. The Stockholm office predominately works with audio- and video development and this is manifested in the special made wallpapers with cables, earphones and other devices linked to audio-video technique.

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Skype’s New Palo Alto Offices

Stephen Searer — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Skype has somewhere around 250 employees in the Palo Alto area and neede to renovate their current space to be something more work-friendly and enjoyable. To do this, they hired Blitz, who has this to say about the project:

“Skype’s primary goal was to create a world-class office that would differentiate them from their Bay Area competitors in the recruitment of talent. The project entailed a tenant improvement of 54,000 square feet of existing office space to support 250 employees involved in high technology development.

The space reflects Skype’s spirit of innovation in a highly functional yet creative workplace designed to encourage interaction and spontaneity, as well as meet specific acoustic requirements in support of their extensive use of AV. The project is registered for and seeking LEED Silver certification.”

Kind of a long photo gallery today, but I don’t think you’ll mind. Not all of the images zoom, sorry!

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Skype – London Offices

Jose Ramirez — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Remember when Skype was the Next Big Thing? Well, it was pretty big, but it wasn’t enormous. It might be this time, though, because soon you’ll be able to use Skype on smartphones. It’s like having a phone on your phone! But this one is a free phone. Anyways, here are their London offices.

Skype’s office is a pleasant, wide-open space. They have an awesome old timey library-style lounge and some really comfy looking lunch booths. They have spectacular views of London, and when, not breaking child labor laws, the employees enjoy riding fake plastic horse things (???).

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IMAGE CREDIT: Images courtesy of Codepo8, teller, megandavid AND ottk. Whoa.

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Skype Offices – Stockholm

Stephen Searer — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:26 +0000

Skype is best known for their easy-to-use peer-to-peer telephony client. They are clearly the leader in the field with a whopping ~215 million registered users. The company was purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Recently, the service made news when it was unavailable for use for about two days. The outage occurred when Microsoft’s Windows OS caused the simultaneous reboot of millions of computers due to a recently installed software patch. When millions of computers attempted to connect to Skype, it was quite a bit more strain that the servers could handle.

Their offices are pretty slick, and are of course, located in the same building as the Ebay offices we posted a couple days ago. One of my favorite elements of the office is the wall of clocks, which is made extra special by the addition of cuckoo clocks.

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