Category Archives: Office Design

Sus­tain­able at Heart

July 16th, 2010
With Jas­max dir­ector Tim Hoo­son par­ti­cip­at­ing in a spe­cial CoreNet Pecha Kucha next week, now seems like a good time to post this story from ProDesign 107, about the archi­tec­tural firm’s move to a new Par­nell base. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. ‘Art is never fin­ished, only aban­doned’, goes the pithy (yet slightly cyn­ical) one liner. Would that [...]
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Tak­ing aim

May 27th, 2010
Hous­ing two advert­ising agen­cies in one build­ing, albeit under the same par­ent com­pany, can provide a few design chal­lenges. RTA Stu­dio recently under­took such a pro­ject with AIM Prox­im­ity. Pho­tos: Becky Nunes. Advert­ising agen­cies have had a num­ber of hey­days – the 50s, the 80s (up to ’87, of course), per­haps the late 90s and early 00s (up to ’09, per­haps). [...]
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With Bells On

February 18th, 2010
Wingate & Farquhar’s long, lin­ear form for a New Zea­l­and com­pany steeped in tra­di­tion. Words: Anthony Coates. Images: Simon Devitt. (From ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images). The day the tea ran out, Reporoa, Octo­ber, 1993 – I’d decided to spend the day read­ing a novel on a sun-drenched couch while drink­ing cups of milky, sug­ary tea. From memory, the nov­el­ist [...]
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Min­istry of Design for Leo Burnett

October 29th, 2009
Per­spect­ive, Pen­cils and Personality Words: Michael Barrett Later on I felt bet­ter about being lost – well, after I vis­ited Wiki­pe­dia, and dis­covered that Treng­ganu Street is some­times referred to as “the Pic­ca­dilly of Chinese Singa­pore”. Didn’t feel much bet­ter about run­ning late, though. Noth­ing worse than being late for a meet­ing, being on the right street, but being unable [...]
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Math­ieu Lehan­neur at the Laboratoire

September 22nd, 2009
LaboBrain - French designer Mathieu Lehanneur at the Laboratoire
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