Offices and Work Spaces

An illustrated selection of home office designs showing how architects and interior designers have created new spaces in private houses to accommodate the new need to work from home.

Essential for anyone involved in the design, management and use of work places, Creating the Productive Workplace is a critical multidisciplinary review of the factors affecting productivity, as well as a practical solutions manual for common problems and issues.

Where We Work highlights the many options that come into play when designing a home office and offers a wealth of inspiring visuals and design ideas from around the world.

The book looks at what this means for the design process, the role of the architect and physical place itself in the future, and provides a practical guide to help architects, designers, developers, clients and occupiers create office spaces that promote wellbeing, innovation and growth.

Increasingly, many of us can work anywhere, so what is the meaning of the dedicated workspace? With 30 detailed case studies of all kinds of workspaces - from traditional workspaces to sheds and studios - this book argues that a specific place to work is still needed but that the kind of space is changing fast and good design is key.

The dimensions of the core elements of office workplaces - desk and chair - together with the necessary circulation areas determine the design of office buildings.

Beyond the Workplace Zoo offers high-level pragmatic guidance on office design that meets basic human needs, drawing on the fields of psychology anthropology, sociology and zoology.

This book sets the iconic building in its historic context, details its its initial development, design and construction, its listing and then critically examines the current scheme and the reimagining of a late 20th Century landmark.