Photographer Jason Strong has sent us his images of the new Skype offices in Stockholm, designed by Swedish firm PS Arkitektur.
Created within a former brewery, the project comprises audio and video studios, offices and social areas for 100 staff.
The scheme features white walls, wooden floors and colourful rounded furniture, with custom-made wallpaper featuring Skype's logo and symbols.
Here's some information from the architects:
Skype moved from a smaller office at Slussen, Stockholm to the Münchenbrewery 11 april 2011.
The office design is based on the spirit of Skype, how it is a useful and playful tool that connects the world.
The in-between shapes of interconnected nodes has given us romboid and triangular shapes that is visible in the flooring and in the design of some of the hard furniture.
The playful happy theme in colours and soft furniture comes from the Skype graphics and the Skype cloud logo is reinterpreted as cloud-shaped lighting throughout the office space.
The Stockholm office predominately works with audio- and video development and this is manifested in the special made wallpapers with cables, earphones and other devices linked to audio-video technique.
Furniture: Blå station (round soft furnishing), Hay( string furniture), Crassevig (white chairs and bar-chairs with a net pattern), Arper (conference seating), Martela (workstations), Offecct( green big soft seating), Johanson design (poufs and sofas)
Customized furnishings: It is pS Arkitektur who has designed the furniture and Olle Lindelöf AB/Linjon AB has built them
Lighting: Stockholm lighting (the big skype cloud), Foscarini/Diesel, Next, Zero, fagerhult
Location: Munchen Brewery, Stockholm
Size: 1680 sqm ( 100 workplaces)
Team: Mette Larsson-Wedborn (head project architect), Peter Sahlin, Beata Denton, Thérèse Svalling and Erika Janunger.
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| Facebook Headquarters by Studio O+A |
Google office by Scott Brownrigg |
Wieden + Kennedy offices by Featherstone Young |
The colors are exquisite, tho' the ambiance is fey. It would be interesting to see the people who work here and how they dress.
To quote The IT Crowd, "standard nerds" ;)
I love these spaces ala facebook and google office designs. I wish more offices would adopt this type of design theory, it makes for such a creative and inspirational space which always carries over into employees work ethic. If my office looked like this I would be inspired on a moment by moment basis; architects adore these spaces! Really cool, thanks for sharing.
What a great place to work. So much space and light. I especially like the triangular grey toned floors. I love seeing offices like this.
Love the rounded furniture that resonates with the skype logo
I wonder how ugly is place is going to look like now that Microsoft has acquired skype.
Brr, wouldn't want to work at Skype, Stockholm after seeing this :S Every image shows terrible taste, so 'loud'!
i'd like the idea of a lot of different color near the white!
Ok,where is the idea?So many shapes,colours and patterns…Looks quite messy and disturbing.It' s not an easy place to work.