Client: Jellyfish
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Surface Area: 7,535 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Elsa Young
Architect: Tétris

Tétris realized the offices for global design agency, Jellyfish, located in Johannesburg, South Africa

Jellyfish has asked Tétris to fit out their new Johannesburg offices, to fulfilled a number of roles on this project. Working closely with Jellyfish’s global design partner, Workplace Creations, we were the Architect of Record (AOR) and executed both the project management and fit-out works on the project.

Localising the international playbook, Tétris delivered an office that was in keeping with the Jellyfish global look and feel, while injecting some local flair. The striking reception with a timber panelled feature is flanked by a bold and brightly coloured custom designed wallpaper. With an interesting, pared back take on a reception space, a simple black steel framed desk greets visitors.

A bespoke bench and soft seating in this zone make for an interesting waiting area, doubling up as a client interface space and informal break-away and collaboration zone for teams. Concrete flooring extends from this area to the canteen and multi-purpose zones beyond, linking the spaces to create a holistic design language. The furniture is sculptural and boldly coloured, complemented by carefully curated and striking lighting.

The designers took care to use of every bit of space, creating meeting areas from corners and straight walls, with the smart introduction of built-in bench seating wherever possible. As a result, staff are offered a multitude of break-away areas.

The desking itself is bold, some with red steel frames, for a visually interesting effect. Meeting booths and wall designs bring in more colour, creating an interior palette which, when looked at as a whole, is a myriad of tones that all speak to the brand, its global messaging and local flavour.

Taking full advantage of the beautiful views, Tétris designed an outdoor area for the staff to enjoy, encouraging them to take a break, step outside and interact with fellow colleagues. This has proven to be a very popular spot indeed.

In order to deliver this project, bi-weekly Skype calls with the project team allowed for ease of communication with all parties, regardless of time differences. Drawing on our experience working with international clients, despite the UK Jellyfish team only visiting the site once during the project duration, Tétris was able to seamlessly execute this project to exacting details.

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Client: Monera Yayinlari
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Surface Area: 1,615 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Burak Teoman
Architect: ÖMER KARAKUŞ MİMARLIK

ÖMER ARAKUŞ MİMARLIK has realized the offices design for Monera Yayinlari, a publishing company located in Istanbul, Turkey.

A company that spends long hours in their work environment required a comfortable setting with an industrial style.

The space includes a kitchen section which can host small meetings or casual points for employees to interact.

The office also accommodates and encourages team work and collaboration. There is plenty of access to natural daylight, giving the space a transparent feel.

Details of the office are designed for individuals using the space. The use of raw and natural material connect the users back to nature and themselves.

As a result, the highly creative design inspires the creative work delivered by the publishing company.

Client: U-Smart
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Surface Area: 2,597 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Sabukhi Novruzov
Architect: Lauri Brothers

Lauri Brothers have thoughtfully completed the office design for U-Smart located in Kiev, Ukraine.

Recently, we have been actively working with office spaces and making them not just workspaces, but also those in which work itself turns into a buzz. Sky Floor is a premium-level office for IT professionals.

The owner of such a company who creates products and generates profit is successful. He rides around the world, visits the art offices of Google, Amazon and realizes that he can afford the same level. But where should he invite international colleagues in return? Offices in the Ukrainian business centers can be rented by any of his colleagues, it’s too simple and like everyone else does. The ideal place for his work and business meetings as a piece of art that exists in a single copy is the projection of a creative person.

The puzzle for creating a dream office has come together thanks to three simple components: uniqueness, design, technology.

To make the office special we had to rise to the sky. We decided to build as high as possible. Office space of 250 square meters is located in Pechersk hill at the height of the 40th floor with a panoramic view of Kyiv. With height and a good location to the cardinal points we got a bonus — insolation. Science has proved that a high level of insolation dramatically increases the productivity of employees, and the sun is full daylight: it rises from the Dnipro river and sets far beyond Pobedy Avenue. This is the highest office in the country.

What makes an office special besides location? Our author’s project with a futuristic reception and podiums in the form of clouds conveys the idea of cleanliness, light and air. There is a feeling that you are soaring on a cloud. Design is about that. In this environment you can’t just sit down and work, you can only create with inspiration!

What makes an office special besides location and design? We filled the office with modern solutions of a «smart home». Sky Floor has ceased to be just a beautiful space, it has become a gadget, a working tool. Everything here works to optimize, maintain comfort, save time and money. You control all systems from your smartphone: video, climate, lighting, heating, music. In the morning the shutters will automatically rise, the temperature will be set on the locations, the music will turn on quietly so the employees can drink their morning coffee. So the working day will begin smoothly according to the script programs. The office falls asleep itself, wakes up and adjusts to the preferences of the owners, making it possible to control the mass of parameters from anywhere in the world where the Internet is. Aruba and Fortinet are responsible for network security. These words are enough for IT people to sleep peacefully.

The Sky Floor office sets a high standard of techno-visual aesthetics in a premium office building. And if overtime offices worthy of Ukrainian Jobs and Axelrod appear in the country the Sky Floor mission can be considered a success.

Client: Cerebra CPAs & Advisors
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Surface Area: 16,458 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Aykut Lor
Architect: Mürekkep Tasarım Atölyesi

Mürekkep Tasarım Atölyesi was tasked with the design of the Cerebra CPAs & Advisors offices, an accounting and advisory firm located in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cerebra CPAs & Advisors’ office, which provides accounting, auditing and consulting services in a wide range of industries in Turkey is located in Mecidiyeköy, Istanbul. The 600 m2 office is planned according to the intended use, with the reference of the existing core of the building’s rectangular plan.

In the layout project, the space distribution is based on a horizontal axis that divides the space into two. The front part is reserved for the entrance area, meeting rooms and executive rooms; while the back part is considered as working and socializing areas. Also, semi-transparent areas were created in the meeting rooms by using glass as a space divider to maximize daylight in the entrance area.

While the entrance part is formed with a cactus garden and a reception desk; from this part, the user is accompanied by a linear LED lighting–which are all around the core- is thought to indicate the circulation areas.

In the executive rooms, basic needs and functions are kept the same and only material and color changes are made for the user.

The small meeting rooms in each executive room are divided by glass separators. Thus, the space functions of the company may change in line with the possibility of long-term growth and capacity increase.

In the open office and in the socializing area, the use of color and creating green spaces continued to increase the employee motivation.

The distinction of the social area with the open office was again made of glass cubes with bamboo trees. Material balance in the whole place is achieved by using wood, concrete and corporate color.

Client: AICL Communications
Location:  Mumbai, India
Surface Area: 13,993 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Suleiman Merchant
Architect: SAV Architecture + Design

SAV Architecture + Design has completed the design of the AICL Communications offices, a communications consultant company located in Mumbai, India.

SAV Architecture Design, a London, Mumbai and Goa based interior and architectural design studio has shaped the new Mumbai based workplace interiors for AICL communications, a consultancy that confluences strategy content, design and delivery providing creative solutions across print, digital, moving image, environments for varied businesses and stakeholders.

The initial brief and ideas for the new AICL workplace design were discussed collaboratively with the clients, with a lot of emphasis on understanding the future of working environments especially in the creative industry. Since creative methods have a lot of ‘fuzzy thinking’ we conceptualised this thought process into a mix of ‘fuzzy spaces’ for the new AICL workplace. By using the office’s large open plan style layout , we create a series of overlapping programs alternating between living , work and landscape spaces.

Client: Nova Measuring Instruments
Location: Rehovot, Israel
Surface Area: 107,639 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Amit Geron
Architect: Setter Architects

Setter Architects have realized the offices for Nova Measuring Instruments located in Rehovot, Israel.

Nova is a leading provider of innovative metrology (measuring) solutions used in the control of the semiconductor manufacturing process. Nova provides unique measuring solutions based on X-ray and optical measurements. Headquartered in Israel, the company has branches world-wide.

Our initial design idea was to mirror Nova’s status as a multinational company, to speak its unique language—and for this to be expressed in the design of its branches across the world.

We performed a principled division into floors, with the employee experience in mind. We then created a work environment that enables maximum sharing, with different-sized formal and informal meeting-rooms, seating areas, and open-space work stations, designed specifically for the project according to the exact needs of Nova employees. Together, they allow efficient work in as much private space as possible.

The clean labs and rooms—the very heart of the company—are grouped on a single floor, adjacent to the relevant engineering team.

Our design concept was inspired by the company’s content world. Advanced measurement methods were architecturally expressed in every aspect of the design, and translated into elements integrated throughout the offices. Nova’s technology uses light waves to collect information and create simulations of tiny three-dimensional structures that the human eye cannot see. An entire language is inherent in that technology—angles, triangles, and 3-D elements, which create topographical layers of varying thickness, light rays, light reflections, and optical means. It was that language which inspired the design elements.

In terms of the interior design, we aspired to create a cozy inviting space featuring natural materials, pale wood and black iron, with wall colors on a tone scale ranging from gray to white. The emphasis is on a clean, almost Scandinavian look, that corresponds with the graphic elements on the walls—all implemented with the same clean three-dimensional language.

For the conference and meeting rooms we chose a cool color scale, with walls of green, blue, or pink —with comfortable furnishings that warmly enfold the setting. The carefully-chosen finishes, combined with warm, homey furnishings in the informal rooms, and industrial elements in the formal rooms, offer employees a wide range of cozy and well-equipped meeting places.

The materials we chose refer to each item’s design idea, from the carpets with loops of different heights, generating a three-dimensional illusion, through the iron partitions in the corridor, with their different angles.

Each floor has a large central conference room, designed with a 3-D facade that people encounter as they enter, and is visible from every angle in this part of the floor. The elevator lobby is focused on by rays of light and reflected light, recalling the action of the measuring instruments. A motif taken from the corporate world is integrated into the mirrors of the washrooms, while the suspended acoustic tiles in the cafeteria face a three-dimensional wall of blocks. The silicate bricks, and the play of the kitchen tiles—are all inspired by Nova’s lexicon. They create a landmark on each floor, unifying the design on all floors, and creating a single design concept that unites them.

Client: BaiQumra Capital
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Surface Area: 2,153 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Itay Benit
Architect: Pninit Sharet Azulay – Interior Design

Located in the heart of Tel Aviv, Qumra Capital’s fresh and clean design for their modern office provides the venture capital firm an invigorating space to spend their 9-to-5.

Qumra Capital is an Israeli Venture Capital fund, with offices located on the ground floor of an old apartment building in the heart of Tel Aviv.

The office, previously an apartment with a backyard, has been fully redesigned and renovated.

The space was divided using steel frame and glass partitions. Natural concrete floor in the offices and lounge, with a fishbone wood parquet in the conference room. Furniture is a mixture of custom designed steel furniture and carefully selected new home furniture.

Contemporary light fixtures, vintage carpets, cotton drapes, local modern art photography over the walls, plants, books and accessories complement the family, home style atmosphere at this Tel Aviv central offices.

The backyard, accessed from the conference room, was completely renovated, with hardwood deck, rich vegetation, and an outdoor lounge with wood and textile garden furniture to complete the homestyle garden vibe.

Client: The Brewery Building
Location:  United Kingdom, London, England
Surface Area: 11,000 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Robin Gautier
Architect: Squire & Partners

Squire & Partners designed 11,000 square feet of creative workspace in the Brewery Building located in London, England.

Squire & Partners has completed The Brewery Building, a reimagining of an existing 1970s office building in Islington, for client Atlas Properties. Repurposing the original structure and adding two additional floors has created 11,000 sqft of creative workspace aimed towards local independent businesses.

Designs reference the area’s industrial past by adopting a contemporary warehouse aesthetic, with the new upper floors characterised by a textured brick chequerboard pattern – created by rotating the bricks 45 degrees – with exposed concrete soffits. New full height glazing units are set deep to the facade, with openable windows on the upper floors. Patterned metal balustrades animate the primary elevation, with a criss-cross design derived from Victorian industrial scissor gates.

Internally, glazed meeting rooms and full-height windows create bright naturally lit workspaces, offset with a tonal palette inspired by aged industrial materials such as Verdigris and rust. Base materials of concrete, metal and timber, combined with exposed services and lighting, continue the industrial aesthetic. Soft furnishings in muted colours and natural greenery add a layer of domesticity and encourage social interaction. Cycle spaces and showers are provided for building users.

We go back to the 60’s 70’s and 80’s in New York to design the new offices for The Story Lab in Madrid, This age of both, decadence and artistic explosion, Pop Art, Street Art and nightlife inspired us to create the different spaces of this 4 floor office.

Every floor has been individually designed to give solution to the needs of different teams: Editorial, Postproduction, Direction, Canteen… All of them have spaces inspired in the contribution of these artists that led to some of the most groundbreaking trends of the last century.

Ground Floor – Nell’s night club
Night Club in the 70s in New York. The Nell’s club was born as a boost for the well known Studio 54. It became the epicenter of the Underground culture. With its English pub style, the select public imprinted its character, and this is the character that we wanted to recall in the canteen of The Story Lab offices.

4th Floor – Basquiat
From Basquiat we wanted to highlight his color palette, his spontaneity and his pureness; how he brought to any kind of format (from notebook’s sheets to boards hanging on the walls) his most profound wishes and frustrations. His strength meant the end of The Factory, but at the same time, he was one of its maximum representatives.

5th Floor – Andy Warhol
From Warhol we wanted to stand out his art industrialization, because of the demystification and trivialization of the works, because of the plane colors that didn’t came out from any paint brush and because of getting a color brightness that was just reached by some of its contemporaneous such as Ellsworth Kelly of Franck Stella. Creator of The Factory and precursor of the eclectic and decadent New York of the 70s, his influence in our project is visible in some spaces with 3d printings, where color and texture have special importance.

6th Floor – The Velvet Underground
One of the first music groups that was able to join rock, glam and poetry, all of it adorned with the darkness of New York’s underground. This dimly lit inspired us to create the spaces of this floor with velvet, underground carriages and some other elements. This space brings us back to the darker side of the city together with one of the greatest bands of the 60s and 70s.

Client: The Story Lab
Location:  Madrid, Spain
Surface Area: 13,993 sqft
Year Completed:   2019
Photography: Alberto Monteagudo
Architect: Stone Designs

Past pop art and decadent icons of New York City inspired each of the four levels of The Story Lab’s office, each floor home to a different team of the Madrid-based production company.