An industrial London workspace and the home of software company Slack feature in our latest lookbook, which spotlights 10 office interiors animated by wooden bleacher-style seating. More
A sloped roof lined with wooden bleachers and plants conceals the student hub that Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has created for the Tokyo Institute of Technology. More
A giant staircase tops the new Red Cross Volunteer House in Copenhagen, designed by architecture studio COBE to double as a public meeting place. More
New York studio Architecture + Information aimed to create an environment that is "playful, not childish" for this school in Manhattan. More
Vancouver-based Leckie Studio has revamped an industrial building in the city for Slack, taking design cues from the original features and the Pacific coast climate. More
Wooden bleachers and planted screens are intended to evoke New York City's urban courtyards at this headquarters for workplace messaging system Slack, by architecture firm Snøhetta. More
Bleacher-style seating, traditionally found at sports grounds, is increasingly popping up inside and over the top of office spaces and public buildings. The stairs designed for sitting on feature in Snøhetta's newly-opened SFMOMA extension and on Napur Architect's skateboard-ramp design for a Budapest museum. We've added these and more of the best examples to a new Pinterest board.
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Dutch office MVRDV has revealed the first photographs of The Stairs, a huge scaffolding staircase leading up to the roof of an office block in Rotterdam city centre (+ slideshow). More
Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). More
Dutch design studio PolyLester has created a collection of furniture on wheels that is used to transform an industrial hangar into a venue for exhibitions, workshops, dinners or parties (+ slideshow). More
Design studio March Gut has converted a wine cellar in northern Austria into a tavern, with stepped seating on the roof to allow customers to get a better view of the surrounding vineyards (+ slideshow). More
A turquoise staircase runs diagonally across the facade of this cube-shaped home in rural Quebec, designed by Montreal studio Architecturama (+ slideshow). More
Bleacher-style seats conceal private offices, toilets and storage areas at this advertising agency, designed by Dutch office Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten inside an overhauled railway building in Tilburg (+ slideshow). More
The roof of this bright red tennis clubhouse by Rotterdam firm MVRDV doubles up as an expansive seating area for game spectators (+ slideshow). More
Mexican firm Anagrama has installed a dome of interlocking wood panels at a library in Monterrey, creating bookshelves that arch over a stepped reading area (+ slideshow). More
The Osaka office of Nikken Sekkei's interior design studio features a bookcase conceived as a "stand in a stadium" – the latest example of the trend for bookshelf staircases in both home and office interiors (+ slideshow). More
The Amsterdam offices of smartphone manufacturer Fairphone were created inside a former industrial building – and informed by the same sustainable design principles the company uses for its products (+ slideshow). More
Employees of e-ticketing company Eventbrite can have meetings on bleachers and recline in hammocks at the company's new headquarters in downtown San Francisco by Rapt Studio (+ slideshow). More
Architects are increasingly designing staircases that double as seating, allowing office workers to congregate between floors, circulation to be turned into event space and homeowners to curl up with a book on the landing. Here are some of our favourite stair/seating configurations (+ slideshow). More
Coloured storage units that double as cubby-holes and hiding places for children feature in this Stockholm kindergarten by Swedish firm Rotstein Arkitekter. More