Bean Buro
Workplace
Workplace designed as an urban sanctuary
Bean Buro discusses the design of Palatino Hospitality’s Hong Kong workplace, where biophilic design, warm materiality and hospitality principles combine to create a calm retreat within the city.
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Mangrove garden: Bean Buro reimagines corporate culture in Hong Kong
Bean Buro transforms a financial office into a biophilic workplace using local art, hospitality design and wellbeing-driven spaces.
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Across waters: Anglo-Eastern Singapore by Bean Buro
Bean Buro’s Singapore office for Anglo-Eastern is a poetic continuation of their Hong Kong headquarters — a workplace that balances identity and calm.
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Landmark South enhances employee interaction and connection to nature
Located on the outskirts of Hong Kong, Landmark South designed by Bean Buro matches environmental focus with a design that is intended to foster communication, collaboration, and employee wellbeing.
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An elegant family home designed for work and play
While the home’s aesthetic is refined and elegant, it was imperative that the space be fun for the children, but acoustically robust enough to facilitate the owners’ ongoing need to work from home.
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Indesign’s 10 best workplaces of 2022
In 2022 it was all about coming to the office, and feeling good while you were there. No surprises – 2022 marked a year of new workplaces that were bold, beautiful and not at all your typical office.
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Bean Buro creates a playful and porous workplace within Unicorn Stores headquarters
Drawing on traditional Japanese architecture as well as the designers’ own international backgrounds, Bean Buro has created an interior office space with a distinctly modern atmosphere.
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Playful and porous work: Bean Buro in Hong Kong
Drawing on traditional Japanese architecture as well as the designers’ own international backgrounds, Bean Buro has created an interior office space with a distinctly modern atmosphere.
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Warner Music unveils ‘music box-inspired’ Hong Kong office
While the recording company’s new home base ticks all the relevant boxes in terms of acoustics and usability, it also offers some interesting design surprises.
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5 retail marvels that reach for the future
From Shanghai to Singapore, the evolution of retail design has reached new highs. We take you through five retail stores that drip with futuristic creativity.
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Bean Buro strikes a delicate balance
This agile, comfortable destination by Bean Buro puts the emphasis on a soothing and encouraging environment – the perfect place for learning about the retail trade.
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Bean Buro conceives a retail academy for the future
The latest design from Bean Buro provides a place of learning, a space to connect and the ideal environment to present the essence of iconic retail brands and it’s called Moulding Talent.
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Instagram-worthy interstices complete this HK retail interior
In Hong Kong, Bean Buro rejuvenated common areas of a trendy APM shopping mall to appeal to its social media savvy habitués.
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Insta-worthy amenities complete this Hong Kong retail interior
In Hong Kong, Bean Buro rejuvenated common areas of a trendy AMP shopping mall to appeal to its social media savvy habitués.
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Bean Buro finds resolve for living and working under one roof
Bizhouse is the transformation of a mid-century building in Hong Kong into apartments, elegantly designed by Bean Buro to cater for working from home.
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An Office Of Layers And Frames By Bean Buro
Bean Buro presents the quirks of one of Hong Kong’s oldest neighbourhoods through layers and frames to create a dynamic office space for Williams Lea Tag.
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An Urban Cocoon Of Calm By Bean Buro
Bean Buro crafts a clean, light, cosy yet comfortable apartment perfectly suited to the needs of a young family in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley district.
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Bean Buro’s Calming, Collaborative Office For Cigna
Bean Buro took inspiration from Hong Kong’s natural scenery as well as environmental art, and placed numerous ‘oases’ throughout Cigna’s new office in Causeway Bay.
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A calming, collaborative office for Cigna by Bean Buro
Design firm Bean Buro turned to abstract environmental artworks for inspiration for a project it has dubbed the ‘Green Office’.
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A Calming, Collaborative Office For Cigna By Bean Buro
Bean Buro took inspiration from Hong Kong’s natural scenery as well as environmental art, and placed numerous ‘oases’ throughout Cigna’s new office in Causeway Bay.
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Kenny Kinugasa Tsui On Co-Working Space Design
What is the next big thing in coworking space design? How do coworking spaces in Asia differ from those in other regions? Bean Buro’s Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui shares insights from his book Co-Working Space Designs.
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Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui On Coworking Space Designs
What is the next big thing in coworking space design? How do coworking spaces in Asia differ from those in other regions? Bean Buro’s Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui shares insights from his book Co-Working Space Designs.
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Grosvenor Hong Kong: A Well-Rounded Office By Bean Buro
At Grosvenor’s Hong Kong office, Bean Buro focused on hardware (for air quality, acoustics and lighting) and heartware (for a sense of community) to achieve a satisfying space.
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A Flexible And Durable Home For A Growing Family By Bean Buro
How do you address the complex relationships between members of a growing family within their home? Bean Buro has created an apartment that appeals across generations.
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Liquid Forms: Bean Buro Takes Inspiration From Water For An Apartment In Pok Fu Lam
The Hong Kong design studio stays ahead of the curve with this calm, fluid space overlooking the ocean.
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Homes Within a Home: Bean Buro’s Ingenious Design for a Family Apartment
Architecture and interior design practice Bean Buro makes space for three generations in a 2,500-square-foot flat in Hong Kong’s Jardine’s Lookout.
Events
The Winners of A’ Design Award and Competition 2016-2017 are…
One of the world’s most comprehensive design awards, the A’ Design Award and Competition has bestowed recognitions to a total of 1,958 designs from 98 countries in 97 different design disciplines in its 2016-2017 edition.
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Enlivening an Industrial Building Through Art and Design
Bean Buro enlivens the headquarters of Kerry Logistics in Hong Kong with the introduction of contemporary installations that enhance the visitor experience.
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Bean Buro Creates Literature with UBER Hong Kong’s Office
Bean Buro draws inspiration from the process of writing a book to imbue UBER Hong Kong’s workplace with plot points and characters.
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Designing a Workplace is like Writing a Novel: UBER Hong Kong by Bean Buro
Can you design a workplace like you were writing a book? Bean Buro’s latest project for UBER Hong Kong indicates that maybe you can.
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The Office Version 2.0
The Work Project takes a multi-sensory approach to serviced offices and co-working spaces. Tamsin Bradshaw speaks to the minds behind the design and the business model.
Articles
CUBES INDESIGN: ISSUE 77 OUT NOW
A house that tests the border between privacy and exposure; a tile and stone showroom that dissolves conventions; a conversation about accreditation for landscape architects; a public garden that embraces cultural dichotomies; the ‘learn-by-doing’ approach of LOOK Architects; and much more in our latest issue.