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PONS + HUOT’s Futuristic Bubbly Offices

Stephen Searer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:04 +0000

Today’s offices, designed by Christian Pottgiesser for PONS + HUOT.

“The project accommodates the headquarters of two companies in Paris – PONS and HUOT – with totally fifteen executives. Consequently the unit has seven individual rooms for each director and one open-space-office for the remaining eight clerks. In addition there is one (divisible) meeting-room, a common recreational room, a kitchen, rest rooms, and, at the special request of the patron, lush vegetation all over the main space.

The base for the construction was a rotten industrial hall built in the late 19th century with a steel framework typical for the period. It is rumoured that Gustave Eiffel realized it.

To start with, the hall was completely restored. A new self-cleaning glass roof was fitted. The whole substance of the building was put back into the original state.

In fact the project consists of an insertion of a wooden unit in solid oak 1,7 m high, 22 m long and 14 m wide. The entire programme is embodied therein. Each individual workplace is incised into the wooden upper surface and covered by a “telephone’-dome in Plexiglas. The four lateral surfaces contain archives, cloakrooms and the kitchen. Completely embedded in the body are the meeting room, the recreational room and the restrooms. The remaining space is taken up by technical transmission systems (computer, electricity, air condition, heating and water) and also by 18,3 m3 of soil, the bed for eight Ficus Panda trees.

Neither entrance hall nor reception were implemented, since visitors are guided by a peripheral path-system leading to all pertinent rooms. The individual offices are situated on both galleries.”

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Altaide Offices – Paris

Jose Ramirez — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Fact: lavender is the color of job searching. At least in France, anyway. Just look at Altaide. Altaide is a firm that specializes in finding the perfect people for the right tech jobs. Think of them like an outsourced HR department.

Another fact: Paris happens to be the most beautiful city in the world. So, any office that has Paris in the windows has to be amazing. And this one is. The interior design itself is simple, comfortable, and warm, but it’s the exterior that makes the office stand out. Pretty sure most offices don’t have a view of Parisian rooftops from their balcony. Those offices should be ashamed.

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Dailymotion HQ

Stephen Searer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:00:21 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Dailymotion, then I’d suggest you stop wearing cardboard boxes on your feet. What, you haven’t heard that clever euphemism before? Well, I’d suggest you stop wearing cardboard boxes on your feet.

Dailymotion lets its users upload various types of videos to share with the entire internet. The office pictured is located in Paris, France, and looks to be an extremely fun place to work. Employees have plenty of space to get their work done, which it seems gets done quite often, because they are always doing wild stuff like posing for photoshoots, hugging each other, putting chairs on desks, and making colorful paper-box characters. The company also has a great spiral staircase, which is not a usual appearance in tech offices.

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LetsBuyIt Paris Office

Jose Ramirez — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:10 +0000

Some of our European friends might remember LetsBuyIt.com; it was all the rage in the late nineties, then went the way of Pets.com in that nasty ol’ bust. And now, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, they’re relaunching in just a few short weeks, as a shopping portal for France, Germany, and the UK.

Not only do these guys get to work in Paris, but they get to do it from a tres chic pad in the Bastille. The full kitchen is pretty fantastique; word is that they get home cooked meals every week. The guy in the first picture is certainly excited about it. Bon appetit!

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Netvibes – Paris HQ

Stephen Searer — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:30:44 +0000

Netvibes‘ headquarters in Paris is a bit different than what we have featured before. For one, it is it’s own space, not one combined with several other companies. Second, it is not huddled in a small space of cubicles. The open nature of the office looks a bit more inviting, while obviously offering more room that their San Fran space.

That being said, the Paris office has the most important thing any business can have; a tall pile of boxes. Many companies rise but ultimately fall because they lack the essentials, Netvibes however, has them.

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