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Red Bull Cape Town Offices

Stephen Searer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:30:35 +0000

And right after you thought you had enough Red Bull lately, too. Well here are their Cape Town offices (London here, Amsterdam here).

The space was designed by COA, a Cape Town-based Architecture firm who had the following to say about it:

“The National Headquarters houses the professional business functions of Red Bull energy drink, and at the same time is representative of the energy and dynamic nature of Red Bull, the people that work for Red Bull and the athletes and opinion leaders that use Red Bull every day to realize their dreams and ideas.

The design makes use of content obtained from Red Bull cultural opinion leaders including artists, musicians and Athletes who represent the brand in their respective disciplines.

The office is an open, creative hub where all employees, athletes, artists, photographers, designers, DJs, musicians, producers, agencies, brand partners, journalists and Red Bull visitors are made welcome and want to hang out in.“

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Missing Link’s Fun And Buzzworthy Office

Stephen Searer — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:30:27 +0000

Missing Link is a presentation and conference organizing company based in South Africa. Their office is very fun and was designed on the following principles:

An office should be somewhere employees like to work
An office should be somewhere clients would like to visit – and more importantly – talk about.

In terms of delivering those things, the office contains a tree house, a shooting range (where clients complete to shoot presentation cliches), a tattoo studio called Missing Ink for staff and clients (free), a deli caravan, and a rock star stage.

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Union-Swiss Global Offices – Cape Town

Stephen Searer — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:30:36 +0000

If there is one thing I am thankful for in this world, it would definitely be skin. Followed by Jack-in-the-box tacos of course. Union-Swiss is South Africa’s leading distributor of skin products including their number one product called Bio-oil, which is supposed to work wonders on stretch marks and scars. However, the results are probably mixed on scars that have stretch marks of their own.

This office is awesome, hands down one of the best we’ve seen. Very well-lit and spacious. Difficult to know what kind of work goes on here for sure, but whatever it is, the employees must love it. I am in love with the reception desk, the leafy chairs, and the ghost person found in one of the images. Located in Cape town, and I might add that South Africa has delivered some of my favorites to the site.

These offices were designed by Inhouse Design, images sent over by Aiden Hart from the firm.

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Ogilvy – Cape Town Offices

Stephen Searer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:00:57 +0000

Ogilvy is one of the worlds largest advertising companies with 497 offices around the globe, which means we could post nothing but their offices for over a year, and still not have covered them all. This particular office is in Cape Town, South Africa, and has a pretty distinct vibe to it. Perhaps it is the dog statues or the mouth-shaped urinals that set it apart from other offices, or maybe it is the fact that if you walked inside, you’d be hard pressed to know that it is actually a place of work.

In any case, you are forced to be creative in the environment, something that has helped the company grow to the size it currently is. They have done work for such mega-brands as KFC, VW, Harley Davidson, and even Coca-Cola.

tip: bandwidthblog

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IMAGE CREDIT: Image 1 snapped by flickr user ipcrowley. Images 2-7 used courtesy of Charl Norman of bandwidthblog. Image 8 snapped by flickr user spooky. Number 9 taken by thehyrax.

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MXit Lifestyle – South Africa Office

Stephen Searer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:00:16 +0000

Today is a double milestone day for Office Snapshots, with the first being the most subscribers ever, and the second being our first office on the continent of Africa.

MXit is a mobile instant messaging company based in Cape Town, South Africa (actually in ‘no man’s land’ between Stellenbosch and Cape Town, but who is keeping track?). They’ve got somewhere around 9 million users in 120 countries, which is pretty impressive. The company also offers many mobile games that their users can enjoy.

The office itself is just a great space for the company to grow into. The look is pretty modern and it has workstations like I’ve never seen. The office also has a fantastic view of the surrounding area, which includes the country’s best wineries. They also have clocks, which, in case you didn’t know, are the most important part of any tech office.

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IMAGE CREDIT: Images taken and sent over by Pieter Nel from MXit, and are licensed under Creative Commons.

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