Best Design Studio: Small
align
City of London offices for Macquarie Group
Interior Design - Corporate & Commercial | Creator: align | Commissioner: Macquarie Group
For their second project for Macquarie Group, align were briefed to design a series of innovative and flexible new working, meeting, presentation and break-out spaces over two storeys of their client’s City of London offices, in order to meet a period of sustained growth and a requirement for new and inspiring ways of working.
The scope of work covered much of the building’s 8th floor, including general workspaces; a staff kitchen/pantry; a large presentation and townhall space (which can also be used for other purposes); five meeting rooms and a large breakout area with an indoor-outdoor feel (‘The Terrace’). The multi-use presentation area was deemed particularly important to the success of the project and had to be able to be combined with The Terrace, with a folding wall between the two, for large-scale events.
The scheme also encompassed a number of private working booths, as well as a more relaxed work/meeting area on the building’s 9th floor. In a second phase of the project, the group’s internal services workspaces on the 9th floor were also re-designed, to showcase the services to the rest of the company. Spaces here included further open-plan workspace; a staff kitchen/pantry with integrated seating and a series of highly-differentiated meeting rooms with marked differences in tone and feel and where a number of different innovative acoustic solutions were to be trialled.
bubbleHUB
Interior Design - Co-Working & Studio Space | Creator: align | Commissioner: bubbleHUB
A striking, two-storey co-working space for new operator bubbleHUB, located within a characterful former pumphouse building in the centre of St Albans. bubbleHUB co-founders Benn Latham and Harry Dougall briefed align to help create a ‘unique and aspirational’ space, which was to be unlike anything else currently available in the St Albans area. 
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