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Designing the daily rituals of work, hospitality and health
The Commons has recently opened two new sites in Melbourne designed by DesignOffice — and this time, they include comprehensive health amenities.
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The Great Room expands Sydney footprint with design-led flagship
The Great Room by Industrious opens a design-led flagship coworking space at One O’Connell Street, blending hospitality and flexible work.
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The Commons’ ambition to reshape the wellness conversation
In an era where the demands of modern work often clash with the need for restoration, The Commons Health Club in Melbourne sets a new precedent.
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Foolscap Studio’s (Roman) Forum
In Cremorne, Foolscap Studio has completed Forum – a co-working space that finds inspiration in some Classical archetypes.
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Touring The Commons with Foolscap Studio
We visited The Commons’ recently opened, heritage-rich York Street site in Sydney’s CBD with the team from Foolscap Studio.
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It’s all in the hospitality: The Great Room makes its Australian debut with Sydney coworking space
Coworking spaces continues to grow in line with demand in Australia. The hospitality-led coworking space, The Great Room, has recently launched its first Australian location in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.
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The Great Room makes Australian debut with Sydney coworking space
Premium hospitality-led coworking space, The Great Room, is set to launch its first Australian location in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.
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The Great Room expands with a new co-working space at South Bridge Road
Spanning four floors and 22,000 square feet, The Great Room, South Bridge reimagines the former Eu Yan Sang shophouse as a new location to build a community around the future of work.
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The Work Project and Hassell are changing the flexible workplace sector
Read this round-table discussion between Hassell and The Work Project in Singapore, about their vision for delivering co-working spaces to an increasingly competitive flexible workplace sector.
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Work reset: What is the future of work?
The pandemic-driven disruption of how we work has been painful for both companies and employees. But it is also providing an opportunity for everyone to recalibrate how we want the future of work to look like.
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Mechanic’s workshop turned co-working space in Christchurch
With original mechanic’s hoist still intact, Coll Architecture and F3 Design team up to make a co-working space for creatives in Christchurch.
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How the pandemic worked in favour of co-working spaces
With organisations and professionals rethinking work and the workplace, co-working spaces may just be the most appealing solution to the hybrid working model in a post-pandemic world.
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How the pandemic worked in favour of coworking spaces
With organisations and professionals rethinking work and the workplace, coworking spaces may just be the most appealing solution to the hybrid working model in a post-pandemic world.
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The Commons South Yarra is everything your home is not
The Commons South Yarra is a seriously fun rendition of a co-working space by Foolscap Studio, intent on delivering amenity you can’t get at home.
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10 pet friendly workplaces that deserve design kudos
Bringing your pet to work day may have once been a novel idea, but there’s mounting evidence to say that pet friendly workplaces could be the way forward.
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A new type of office that’s buzzing with cross-pollination
Designed by BVN in association with Jasmax, B:Hive Smales Farm is a vibrant workplace for businesses to thrive.
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When Co-Working Applies to a Hair Salon
Recently opened in Melbourne, Chiseled is a hair salon founded on more than design, it also brings in design thinking.
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Rethinking The Public-Private Divide In The Coworking Space
Just how ‘public’ can a shared workspace be? Publik Office in Ho Chi Minh City, designed by Sanuki Daisuke Architects, mediates the private-public divide.
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5 Minutes With JustCo’s Lu Liu
JustCo Co-founder and COO Lu Liu talks about the coworking brand’s rapid expansion in the Asia Pacific region and the new challenges and opportunities that come with it.
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Evolving workplaces: Hub Australia’s new Melbourne office by Bates Smart
Award-winning architecture studio Bates Smart has designed a new-generation co-working space in Melbourne for Hub Australia.
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The Great Room Coworking Space Opens In Hong Kong
HASSELL brings history and hospitality together in a new kind of coworking space – one that uses warmth, class and high-performance design to deliver five-star results.
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Wilson Associates Move Downtown – And Into A Coworking Space
After seven years in Tampines, Wilson Associates has relocated to JustCo at Marina Square and created a studio with a hotel-like atmosphere.
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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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Sevil Peach has changed our workplaces for the better
London-based designer Sevil Peach brought the concept of the home office to the world when she started designing office and showroom spaces for Vitra. She believes that companies and spaces alike must be always pitched for change.
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The Work Project Capital Tower Offers A Private Networking Environment
Comprising an exclusive business club by HASSELL and an innovation hub by M Moser Associates, The Work Project Capital Land addresses the expanding demand of the premium coworking segment.
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Space Matrix And Temasek Polytechnic Dream Big About Coliving
Student winners have been announced Space Matrix’s ‘Dream Big’ Designathon with Temasek Polytechnic, which looked to the future of coliving spaces in Singapore.
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Coworking Distinctively: The Work Project Parkview Square by HASSELL
Premium coworking venture The Work Project favours a distinctive hospitality-driven environment at its Parkview Square space. It’s all about feeling good about being at work.
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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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Learning to share: Introducing the new generation of co-working
Co-working seems to be the golden arrow for enterprises looking to improve productivity and collaboration. What makes it an effective and successful working model?
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5 Minutes With… Narita Cheah Of Paperspace
Narita Cheah is the Co-Founder and Director of workplace interior design collective Paperspace, and a keen proponent of shared design expertise for today’s increasingly diverse office spaces.
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Working from Home: An Integrated Office By FARM Inspired By Luxury Living
Fancy working in a space with all the digital and design trappings of an upscale apartment? KLOUD by Keppel Land, designed by FARM, offers all that as well as the flexibility of co-working options.
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FARM Designs A New Type Of Gym Inspired By The Coworking Model
The fitness industry sees reinvention with Core Collective, where FARM crafts a well-rounded approach to fitness with healthcare services and social spaces as well as gym equipment.
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Flex, Data And Workplace Behaviour Were Key Themes At WORKTECH18 Hong Kong
This one-day conference looked at bespoke workspace solutions, where co-working is headed, how workplaces can support performance, and much more.
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Continuing the co-working design story of Space&Co
From WMK, the fourth Space&Co office in the Melbourne CBD is another chapter in the ongoing design narrative of design of modern co-working spaces.
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Eaton House: A New Kind of Coworking Space
This working club in Hong Kong opened its doors to a counterculture community last month, setting the scene for creativity, expression and the formation of world-changing ideas.
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WeWork: Creating A Life, Not Just A Living
With less than a year in Southeast Asia, WeWork already operates nine venues in the city with a handful more opening soon in the region. We find out more about the coworking titan’s increasingly diverse offering.
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Studio Adjective Equips Tencent Doctorwork Clinics With Retail, Café and Coworking Facilities
Tencent Doctorwork clinics are designed to comfort patients, but also to engage the medical faculty and the general public.
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Urban Farming X Coworking: Garage Greens Is Launched On A Wan Chai Rooftop
Coworking platform Garage Society and urban farming outfit Rooftop Republic launch a new grow-your-own-veggies initiative in the heart of the city.
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Designing For Asian Coworking Cultures At The Great Room
How is the coworking culture in Asia different from the rest of the world? How are coworking operators responding to evolving userships? Jaelle Ang of The Great Room shares her insights.
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HASSELL’s The Work Project: Coworking your way to your best self
Can a coworking space inspire you to be the best, most productive version of yourself? That’s the vision coworking operator The Work Project had for its new HASSELL-designed space.
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The Work Project: Coworking Your Way To Your Best Self
Can a coworking space inspire you to be the best, most productive version of yourself? That’s the vision coworking operator The Work Project had for its new HASSELL-designed space.
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Unpacking WeWork’s Working Method
WeWork has become a massive commercial operation, tapping into the growing ‘freelancer’ workforce. As the company recently opens its latest offering in Bourke Street Melbourne (designed in-house), Alice Blackwood speaks to Balder Tol, the General Manager Australia, to hear what makes the start-up so successful.
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Co-working in Colour and Comfort at Spacemob Ascent
ID21 targets dynamism, energy and comfort for the co-working community at Spacemob Ascent.
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Creating a Commercial-Social Hybrid Typology at WeWork Hong Kong
The 60,000-sq-m space designed by NC Design & Architecture unfolds over eight floors and aims to encourage social interaction rather than a place to simply come and work in isolation.
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HASSELL Creates a Second Home for The Working Capitol
HASSELL has transplanted the identity and soul of co-working brand The Working Capitol to a very different location in Robinson Road. Here’s a preview of our Cubes 86 feature!