Co-working spaces offer an alternative to spending the nine-to-five in a dull desk cubicle. Interiors reporter Natasha Levy selects seven unusual examples from across the globe, including a shared office in a former distillery and a women-only workspace in New York. More
Ministry of Sound has teamed up with architecture studio Squire and Partners to create a co-working space and private members lounge in southeast London, just around the corner from the infamous nightclub's home. More
Dezeen promotion: designers Barber and Osgerby, Konstantin Grcic and Sevil Peach explore what the office of today looks like in an exhibition for furniture brand Vitra. More
WeWork has added to its roster of London locations by setting up a shared working space inside James Stirling's renowned No 1 Poultry building, one of the UK's most significant postmodern buildings. More
Microsoft Ireland's new campus in Dublin is designed around the concept of an island, complete with a digital waterfall cascading through the atrium. More
This huge industrial building in San Francisco now functions as office space for an HR software company, where employees are encouraged to take off their shoes. More
Interior design studio Casework has transformed a 20th-century building in Portland, Oregon, into a collaborative hub for a digital product agency. More
SevilPeach has designed the headquarters for Finnish furniture brand Artek, with vivid theatre-style curtains and pale surfaces serving as a backdrop for its collection of minimalist tables and chairs. More
Architecture studio TDO has transformed a disused church hall in London into a versatile office for estate agent The Modern House, which feature lofty ceilings and modular furniture. More
British lighting brand Tala has designed its offices, which includes an outdoor terrace and their own test lab, in a canal-side warehouse in London. More
Brazilian firm Solo Arquitetos has designed its own office, where plywood shelves divide the space, and accents of yellow and green enliven the simple studio. More
Co-working company Beauty Shoppe has transformed a historic building in Pittsburgh into one its collaborative workspaces, adding contemporary furniture while retaining characterful details. More
Hollow cubes help to transform a large industrial building into offices for a production company in Los Angeles, completed by local studio FreelandBuck. More
Paint-splattered surfaces, spaghetti-print bed sheets and maximalist wall art all feature in Studio Job's new base in Antwerp, Belgium, in a design that founder Job Smeets describes as being "like a visual assault". More
Brazilian firm Solo Arquitetos has finished a timber company's offices with its own pale wood products, helping to keep the space light and bright while showing off the merchandise. More
Coworking company Beauty Shoppe has created a space for collaborative work with a public cafe in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of its growing number of co-working projects. More
British architecture studio Teatum + Teatum has adapted an old iron foundry in Sheffield into modern offices for a communications agency and co-working local businesses. More
The open floors of a 117-year-old, run-down factory in Des Moines, Iowa, have been transformed into offices by Neumann Monson Architects. More
Women-only co-working spaces are opening across the globe in response to a push for gender equality, according to their founders, who believe the clubs are changing the way their users work. More
The Distillery is a co-working space in Brno, Czech Republic, featuring unfinished walls, ageing ceiling beams and a drinks bar in a disused elevator shaft. More