Office Architecture
Architecture and design of workplaces, from office interiors and campus layouts to commercial buildings and the spaces where people work together.
Office architecture concerns the planning, form and interior organisation of buildings used for work, including open-plan floors, collaborative zones, circulation, daylight and the relationship between a workplace and its surrounding city. Designers working in this area balance productivity, wellbeing and the civic role a commercial building plays in its neighbourhood.
Members on uni.xyz explore these questions through projects that reconsider how work is housed, from speculative workspaces and reused industrial sites to business quarters and community-oriented offices. Several entries also show how the same design thinking extends to residential projects, where the lessons of workplace planning inform how shared and private space are arranged.
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View all 104 journalsDOS - G arquitectos Tailors a 125 m² Panama City Office into a Home for a Real Estate Developer
In Obarrio, Panama City, the Sartoriale offices replace the open-plan workplace with oak, travertine and a dining table at the center of daily work.
Podrecca Architects Threads Glowing Red Law Shelves Through Adolf Loos's MANZ Headquarters in Vienna
In Vienna's first district, a 160 m² upper-floor renovation sets lit red bookshelves and printed legal text against original Adolf Loos mahogany rooms.
ARCHITECTS OFFICE Packs a Cobalt Blue Art Bookstore into 40 Square Meters of a São Paulo Shopping Mall
In São Paulo's MorumbiShopping, a triangular 40 m² concept store wraps art books in monochrome blue shelving under one tensioned skylight.
Norway Architecture Academy: A Glass Courtyard That Makes Interaction the Curriculum
In Trondheim, a glazed atrium, sunken workspaces, a public roof deck and modular apartments turn a school of architecture into a meeting ground.
