Here is a quick video tour of Google’s Chicago office space. As you can see it has most everything other Google offices have like free food, live search tvs, bright colors, and a creative team-friendly atmosphere.
With a name like Epic Systems Corporation, it’s no wonder this company has one of the most beautiful campuses we’ve ever seen. Their headquarters are located in Verona, Wisconsin, and is just about as grandiose as an office complex can come.
The company specializes in software for medium to large sized medical groups, and has given some medical groups a major advantage in patient care because of their product. With computerized patient records becoming the most popular thing since sliced bread, this company has nowhere to go up up.
The campus is absolutely beautiful and stunningly green, with a calming stream running through the middle of the property. Sometimes large campuses can take on a large, ominous, office park look that is just plain and blah, but this place really has nice detail and character that make the outside pleasing to take in with at least 7 or 8 senses. Just look at how happy those horses are to look at it in the distance.
A couple things of note. All employees have private offices, the huge employee auditorium, the Indiana Jones hallway, bears and Knights. Need I say more?
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When the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson decided to rebrand themselves as JWT, they decided that it was important to have a unique and functional office space to match. Well, what they and Clive Wilkinson Architects came up with is not only functional, but very, very unique.
Their New York office space takes up nearly 250,000 square feet houses somewhere around 1000 employees. In an effort to keep creative harmonies maximized, this space has no private offices, but instead areas where groups of creative minds can assemble in both large and small numbers. As you can see, the office has a number of bright colors, as well as a ’storytelling’ theme woven throughout. You see, JWT doesn’t want to just create advertisements, they want to create stories that people can interact with.
Beyond all of the big ideas and themes, the space has some really fun elements from the space invaders wall, to the thin wall with the story cutouts flopping all over. They also have padded ceilings that you’d be crazy not to love. They also seem to have a bar that was designed in space, or at least the future. You know, that place where people wear those silvery outfits. Enjoy the pics and video.
If you haven’t been lucky enough to hear of Blu Dot, today is your lucky day. The company designs and sells some of the most beautiful modern furniture available. Their new headquarters is locates in small warehouse space, and has a very open feel to it. The space is furnished with many of their own products, making it not only their office but showroom as well.
The office itself is very bright from a combination of natural light and light wall color. One of my favorite features of the office are the miniature models of their furniture on the large center shelving units. Each workstation is equipped with plenty of shelving, workspace, and privacy, though not enough to feel closed off. The conference space is very large, though rather long, which might make collaboration and discussion difficult if the whole team were assembled. However, if I worked there, I’d go for a long lunch and ask the ceramic animals to fill me in on the details.
When it comes to your place of work, the place where you spend a good majority of your day, for years on end, it is important that that space is both usable and attractive. For obvious reasons, an office that is difficult to work in will lower your effectiveness at your job. But also, an unattractive space that you don’t like going to could have the same effect.
Parliament Design’s office in Portland, Oregon has to be one of the best examples of usability and design coming together in an office. The space is simply gorgeous, with elegant wood throughout the office, and enough beautifully made custom furniture to wonder why the company doesn’t specialize in that too. The company uses the space to design everything from print materials to retail packaging to websites and animation.
The amount of care and detail around the office is what is really breathtaking. Real firewood, cabinet doors made from old crates, tables made from old barns, and real street signs from Brooklyn. The lighting is fantastic, and the mixture of colors with the cement and wood really make a nice combination. And don’t forget that this is the first office we’ve seen with a bear skin rug.
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