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Office Space Featherstone Young has just completed the interior of this new office for space advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy in London Dubbed “The Cole”, the new office space now provides the agency with not just workspace for their staff but multi-functional event space that will hopefully encourage collaborations with creative partners and their clients. Dedicated craft and product development area for its new school within the agency called Platform has also been provided. The Platform space is a floating space within the new and existing offices, allowing the students to occupy different parts of both buildings in an adhoc manner while staying involved in the day-to-day activities. Other key spaces within the new building include a kitchen and dining area, the central social hub where informal meetings can occur. It has a 5m long island unit which doubles up as a meeting table and toast-making worktop. Cupboard doors are peppered with second-hand cabinet handles, a nod to the nearby Petticoat Lane and Spitalfields flea markets. One floor is dominated by a large flexible auditorium space that can host a range of events from one-to-one meetings to large-scale music performances for up to 160 people. Bespoke retractable lights enable the change of atmosphere and Featherstone Young used wire-framed construction work lights in cluster arrangements to emulate a chandelier effect. Off this main space are a series of garage lock-ups that have customised up-and-over doors allowing the lock-ups to be either hideaway spaces for private activities or be extensions of the main space. Within the workspaces there are floating libraries likened to “crows’ nests” which take full advantage of the double height industrial space. These floating spaces provide visual links across the larger workspaces and create smaller intimate spaces beneath. They also have the added benefit of virtually doubling the floor space. Other facilities accommodated in the new space include editing suites, product development and research labs, flexible gallery space and a roof top terrace. Featherstone Young says it designed all the spaces to be fun and flexible. Within the arrangement of space there are specific design elements that help guide people round the space whilst injecting a sense of humour including the “stairway to nowhere” and the red-tunneled corridor conceived as “a mouth with its tongue sticking out”. Simple, everyday materials and the use of bright colours such as yellow, red and green complement the industrial aesthetic. Project: Wieden + Kennedy office Client: Wieden + Kennedy London Architect: Featherstone Young Photographer: Tim Brotherton/Chee Kit Lai Contractor: BW Interiors Ltd Services Consultant: Mendick Waring Structural Engineer: Conisbee

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