Offices

  • The west facade seen from the West Cross Route. The second phase of AHMM’s Notting Hill Village project is to the left.
    Building Studies

    Turning yellow at AHMM's new Monsoon headquarters

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    Its bright cladding gives Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Yellow Building a distinctive exterior, but as a working environment the interior of this headquarters for clothing retailer Monsoon is a missed opportunity

  • The Matchbox’s emphatic external frame could have carried substantial loads, but is purely aesthetic.
    Building Studies

    Match made in heaven

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Shed KM’s Matchbox building for developer Urban Splash, next to the former Bryant & May match factory in Liverpool, is a striking Miesian office block that links old and new, reports Peter Blundell Jones. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

  • The building’s north-east corner takes the form of a cylinder.
    Building Studies

    Dixon Jones Architects’s perfect pitch at King’s Place

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Two new major concert venues live in harmony with The Guardian’s new headquarters at Dixon Jones’ Kings Place building in King’s Cross

  • The facade is deliberately understated, but the entrance is surprisingly undersignalled.
    Building Studies

    Platform soul

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    In the new HQ for BBC Scotland, David Chipperfield Architects has blended a simple idea and complex programme to stunning effect

  • Visitors are met with an airy double-height reception with a Italian travertine tile floor.
    Building Studies

    Moved up to club class

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    When planning consultant DP9 wanted to transform a tired building in London’s Pall Mall it turned to architect de Metz Forbes Knight for something a little different

  • A European oak ceiling in the restaurant draws the eye to the amazing view.
    Building Studies

    What girls really, really want

    2007-09-12T00:00:00Z

    With 70% of the staff women — and with Marie Claire and Chat among its titles — IPC Media’s fit-out of its new headquarters inevitably involved a bias towards female tastes

  • Building Studies

    The Palestra and the pod

    2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

    Palestra’s pod is the inviting gateway to Will Alsop’s architecture and ID:SR’s interiors, a happy combination of styles that blend practicality and whimsy