Video: Updated design of the Google office in Amsterdam: bright, bold, functional
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The myth that a work office must be gray and dull began to debunk architecture firm D / DOCK … It was her specialists who were involved in the design of the Amsterdam branch of the company. Google … With a lot of effort, they have created the perfect place where every employee feels right at home. A bright and functional room can meet the diverse needs of the company's employees, so that labor productivity is bound to increase in the near future.
Excellent conditions have been created for the office staff: in addition to workplaces, there is a gym and a relaxation room. The 80-seat cafeteria offers meals that will help you adhere to a healthy eating program. The decor of the cafeteria is a gift for real sweet tooth: on the ceiling you can see lighting panels in the form of Dutch caramel waffles, and on the walls - prints depicting gingerbread.
The main part of the office is a 3,000 sq. m. The office is stylized as an ordinary garage, this is a kind of reminder of what Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, started with. It was these guys who registered a company in 1998, the staff of which consisted of only 4 people, and for lack of sufficient funds settled in a rented garage. Of course, the current Amsterdam office is much more comfortable, lighter and warmer, the external stylization is expressed in deliberately careless decoration of the walls with graffiti drawings and specific lighting.
On each floor there are so-called "caves", enclosed spaces that house small conference rooms, video stands and mini-kitchens. The interior is thought out to the smallest detail, each department has its own place, each employee has his own personal space, although at the same time all employees of the Google team work in a single space, constantly interacting with each other.
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