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For the most part, office design trends have been rather conventional and have rarely strayed far from the path of what’s considered in the range of ‘normal’.
However, over the years there have been some strange, if not outright weird, ideas that have made many wonder what the designers were thinking at the time.
Weird and wonderful offices
The following offices are both weird and wonderful, though as they’re unique in every sense of the word, they could hardly be considered trends but more so one-of-a-kind spaces. See what inspiration you can get from them for your own home office.
1. Bahnhof’s bomb shelter
When Bahnhof went looking for a secure office facility, they certainly found one in an old bomb shelter perched on the side of a mountain.
The bomb shelter is located thirty metres underground, features impenetrable foot-thick steel doors and looks remarkably like a villain’s lair in a classic James Bond film.
Of the many outstanding features this unique space boasts, the ‘Moon Room’, which is Bahnhof’s conference room, is easily one of the most outstandingly unique.
This idea can be relatively easy to apply to your home workspace as you can just leave the walls bare then buy metal furniture in chrome or army green colours.
2. The Candy Factory's inspiring co-working space
Co-working spaces are forever being improved on – check out ‘Hubud’ co-working space in the arty town of Ubud in Bali – and The Candy Factory is no exception; in fact, many are of the mind that this is how all co-working spaces should be.
Located in Lancaster, PA, and founded on the philosophy of ‘Come together, do good work, care about our community, love our earth, think local and grow as professionals’, it’s much more than a co-working space in many regards as there’s a real community spirit and vibe in the air.
If you're not the only one using your office space in your house, have a co-working area inspired by The Candy Factory!
3. Raw Material’s tube carriages
Raw Materials, a brand building business, was looking for a low cost office space and certainly found what they were looking for in four old Tube carriages stacked on top of two old shipping containers.
Covered completely in graffiti, these are low cost office spaces at their best, though naturally not every business would find such an arrangement suitable, or even appealing for that matter. So, just take the street art home with you (for your workspace) and leave the Tube carriages where they belong.
4. Pons and Huot’s dome offices
This Parisian office space is unique in so many ways, especially the individual domes – reminiscent of the ‘cone of silence’ from classic television show Get Smart – provided for each worker that offers many possibilities for reducing noise and distractions in open plan office layouts.
This is ideal if you have limited space yet still want your home office to be exclusive. Just get in touch with a reliable glass maker to know how you can place an order for a suitable dome.
5. Threadless’s individual departments
Fun, fun and more fun seems to be the theme of Threadless’s office space. Each department was given a budget to work with and permission to decorate as they saw fit.
The stuffed toy animal heads on the wall are a nice touch that you could incorporate in your own thinking space.
6.Grip Limited’s open space
Yet another open office space that features a fireman’s pole to make descending to the bottom floor all the more fun, and likely ten times as fast, Grip Limited’s Toronto offices embody the sense of play that the company likes to indulge in.
With regard to the hot tub meeting space – this must be the most original meeting space the world over – copywriter Ian Mackenzie claims that “The hot tub-inspired meeting space puts the face-to-face in face time, it’s a great place for quick regroups or brainstorms.” Maybe you'd like to use your bath tub for something more productive too?
7. Inventionland’s fairy-tale office space
As you’d likely expect of a company with a name like Inventionland, imagination is sure to abound in vast amounts and indeed it does.
Gingerbread and doll houses replete with dolls and stuffed animals for the girls and racing car themed offices for the boys bring a sense of amusement and fun to this unique office space.
Take design cues from them and bring in a few toys to your own office!
These weird and wonderful office design ideas highlight the fact that cool office design isn’t only for ‘big players’ like Facebook, Google and Pixar – their offices are renowned for many reasons including the prevailing sense of fun and play they embody – because when people work with office designers/outfitters like Saracenoffice to create their office interiors anything is possible and the only thing standing in the way of you having a cool space to work from is your imagination.
So, what's stopping you from having an amazing thinking space at home?
However, over the years there have been some strange, if not outright weird, ideas that have made many wonder what the designers were thinking at the time.
Weird and wonderful offices
The following offices are both weird and wonderful, though as they’re unique in every sense of the word, they could hardly be considered trends but more so one-of-a-kind spaces. See what inspiration you can get from them for your own home office.
1. Bahnhof’s bomb shelter
When Bahnhof went looking for a secure office facility, they certainly found one in an old bomb shelter perched on the side of a mountain.
The bomb shelter is located thirty metres underground, features impenetrable foot-thick steel doors and looks remarkably like a villain’s lair in a classic James Bond film.
Of the many outstanding features this unique space boasts, the ‘Moon Room’, which is Bahnhof’s conference room, is easily one of the most outstandingly unique.
This idea can be relatively easy to apply to your home workspace as you can just leave the walls bare then buy metal furniture in chrome or army green colours.
2. The Candy Factory's inspiring co-working space
Co-working spaces are forever being improved on – check out ‘Hubud’ co-working space in the arty town of Ubud in Bali – and The Candy Factory is no exception; in fact, many are of the mind that this is how all co-working spaces should be.
Located in Lancaster, PA, and founded on the philosophy of ‘Come together, do good work, care about our community, love our earth, think local and grow as professionals’, it’s much more than a co-working space in many regards as there’s a real community spirit and vibe in the air.
If you're not the only one using your office space in your house, have a co-working area inspired by The Candy Factory!
3. Raw Material’s tube carriages
Raw Materials, a brand building business, was looking for a low cost office space and certainly found what they were looking for in four old Tube carriages stacked on top of two old shipping containers.
Covered completely in graffiti, these are low cost office spaces at their best, though naturally not every business would find such an arrangement suitable, or even appealing for that matter. So, just take the street art home with you (for your workspace) and leave the Tube carriages where they belong.
4. Pons and Huot’s dome offices
This Parisian office space is unique in so many ways, especially the individual domes – reminiscent of the ‘cone of silence’ from classic television show Get Smart – provided for each worker that offers many possibilities for reducing noise and distractions in open plan office layouts.
This is ideal if you have limited space yet still want your home office to be exclusive. Just get in touch with a reliable glass maker to know how you can place an order for a suitable dome.
5. Threadless’s individual departments
Fun, fun and more fun seems to be the theme of Threadless’s office space. Each department was given a budget to work with and permission to decorate as they saw fit.
The stuffed toy animal heads on the wall are a nice touch that you could incorporate in your own thinking space.
6.Grip Limited’s open space
Yet another open office space that features a fireman’s pole to make descending to the bottom floor all the more fun, and likely ten times as fast, Grip Limited’s Toronto offices embody the sense of play that the company likes to indulge in.
With regard to the hot tub meeting space – this must be the most original meeting space the world over – copywriter Ian Mackenzie claims that “The hot tub-inspired meeting space puts the face-to-face in face time, it’s a great place for quick regroups or brainstorms.” Maybe you'd like to use your bath tub for something more productive too?
7. Inventionland’s fairy-tale office space
As you’d likely expect of a company with a name like Inventionland, imagination is sure to abound in vast amounts and indeed it does.
Gingerbread and doll houses replete with dolls and stuffed animals for the girls and racing car themed offices for the boys bring a sense of amusement and fun to this unique office space.
Take design cues from them and bring in a few toys to your own office!
These weird and wonderful office design ideas highlight the fact that cool office design isn’t only for ‘big players’ like Facebook, Google and Pixar – their offices are renowned for many reasons including the prevailing sense of fun and play they embody – because when people work with office designers/outfitters like Saracenoffice to create their office interiors anything is possible and the only thing standing in the way of you having a cool space to work from is your imagination.
So, what's stopping you from having an amazing thinking space at home?
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