Shopify offices by MSDS Studio feature meeting rooms designed to look like shipping containers
Canadian design firm MSDS Studio has fitted out a Toronto warehouse with modular boxes to form offices for e-commerce company Shopify (+ slideshow). More
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3XN reveals "dynamic, undulating" design for Swiss Olympic headquarters
News: Danish firm 3XN has shown the first images of its design for the new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. More
SelgasCano completes Second Home workspace featuring an orange tunnel and a "flying table"
An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). More
Aurélie Blanchard makes over the canteen in Gehry's Vitra Factory Building
A factory hall is one of Frank Gehry's three contributions to the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany. Twenty-five years after its completion, Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has revamped the building's canteen (+ slideshow). More
Triptyque's marble and glass showroom was designed to "look like an ice cube"
White marble panels on the exterior of this commercial building in São Paulo by French-Brazilian office Triptyque were intended to give it an icy aesthetic that contrasts with its subtropical environment (+ slideshow). More
Ogawa Sekkei transforms an old house into a landscape architecture studio with a rockery
A secluded rock garden runs along one side of this former house that Japanese architect Ogawa Sekkei has converted into a studio and showroom for a landscape architect (+ slideshow). More
Conceptual office swaps chairs and desks for "experimental work landscape"
Medical research suggests that too much sitting down can be bad for your health, so RAAAF and Barbara Visser have developed an experimental office that encourages workers to lean, perch or even lie down (+ slideshow). More
Zurich office block by Max Dudler features a gridded granite facade
Swiss architect Max Dudler has completed a granite office building near Zurich featuring a regular gridded facade and a street-level colonnade (+ slideshow). More
Five sprawling volumes make up Barcelona home by RTA-Office
Five box-shaped blocks radiate out from the centre of this Barcelona house by Spanish firm RTA-Office, separating living areas from the client's workspace (+ slideshow). More
Amin Taha Architects peels back layers of plasterboard to create open-plan offices
Exposed brick walls, rugged wooden ceiling beams and chunky wooden staircases with zigzagging undersides feature inside this office block in London, recently renovated by Amin Taha Architects (+ slideshow). More
MVRDV's Pushed Slab office block has a huge hole in its middle
The gaping hole in the centre of this office block in Paris was designed by MVRDV to preserve views of another local building (+ slideshow). More
Jewel-inspired office block by Utopia Arkitekter to be built next year in Sweden
News: Utopia Arkitekter has unveiled plans to build a multi-faceted office block clad with shards of metal and glass beside the train station in Uppsala, Sweden (+ slideshow). More
Concrete volumes are fused with an old piano factory to create David Chipperfield's Berlin office
David Chipperfield's Berlin team added four concrete blocks to a former piano factory in Mitte to create their studio (+ slideshow). More
Paul Crofts Studio sinks seating areas into floor of London office
Seating areas are submerged into a pale wooden floor at this split-level office in London refitted by Paul Crofts Studio (+ slideshow). More
Open-plan office designs unpopular with workers and can damage productivity
News: more than half of employees prefer a private work space, while open-plan office workers often experience too many distractions to work effectively, according to new data. More
David Chipperfield's Moganshan Road office building features an all-copper facade
A grid of muted copper frames the large windows of this slender office building, designed by British architect David Chipperfield for a park-side site in Hangzhou, China (+ slideshow). More
Clive Wilkinson's office for The Barbarian Group is "one huge table through a room"
Inside Festival 2014: architect Clive Wilkinson explains why his studio arranged a New York office around a huge looping desk in our next movie from this year's Inside Festival. More
Hexagonal windows pattern the facade of German office building by Wurm + Wurm
German architecture office Wurm + Wurm has transformed a derelict industrial building into offices, featuring a concrete facade punctuated by rows of hexagonal openings (+ slideshow). More
Onefootball HQ by TKEZ features turfed meeting rooms and a running track
A three-lane running track weaves around this office for a football app company, designed by architects TKEZ, leading to goals for penalty shootouts during work breaks (+ slideshow). More
A tree grows up through voids in Hamada Design's Glass + Wood building
Rectangular voids in the projecting timber decks of this beauty salon and office building in Japan by Osaka studio Hamada Design frame foliage that grows from a bed on the ground floor (+ slideshow). More