Google Campus is a project run by Google UK, it is a 7 storey space intended for coworking and events. The coworking space is located in the centre of London’s so called Tech City, aka Silicon Roundabout. It is part of Google’s aim to fuel the success of London’s tech start up community. As office spaces go Google never disappoints, but its especially nice to see coworking being used as a vehicle to fuel entrepreneurship!

If you are looking for a coworking space in London check out what eOffice has to offer @ www.eoffice.net.

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Pier Paolo Mucelli, the founder of eOffice, has recently begun his presence on the new social kid on the block  - Pinterest. He will be using the site to showcase great modern workplaces, interesting furniture, concepts for interior design and various new technologies relating to commercial spaces.  With an average of 1.36 million users daily, the social photo pinboard has taken the web by storm. Click here to see his boards.

Here are some examples of his cool boards (Click the picture to go to the site):

At eOffice we aim to provide one of the best collaborative work spaces in London, creating a business culture surrounded by technology and infrastructure conducive to co-working. Our aim is to help business executives work in a cost-effective environment without having to sacrifice professionalism and prestige. With this aim in mind eOffice provides  office space, meeting and video conferencing rooms, and even virtual office services.

These pictures are from Microsoft’s campus building which is a huge office complex. Though the complex features many distinct parts, one of the coolest is the Microsoft Garage. The Microsoft Garage is an office space with a twist, its not your conventional workspace. It is in fact the place where Microsoft encourages its free-form grass roots inventions. The space is called the Garage because it actually has two giant garage doors!

Yandex is a leading internet company in Russia, operating the most popular search engine and the most visited website in the country. They  generated an impressive 63.3% of all search traffic in Russia in 2011 and 59.4% in March 2012. The architects behind their new Odessa office space aimed to create a bright office which was extraordinary and memorable.  Odessa, being a maritime city, naturally lent itself to a subtle maritime theme – for example the light-diffusers are in the form of sails, and the walls are covered with copper.

Established companies hope interaction will spark collaboration

Taking a page from start-ups, some established companies are opting to share their workspaces.

In downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., workers from five large employers, including furniture maker Steelcase Inc., SCS +0.87% shoe company Wolverine Worldwide Inc. and food retailer Meijer Inc., share an open, lofty space in a recently developed building.

Employees are urged to wander from floor to floor, bounce ideas off one another and test out new products in the hope that such informal interactions will help spark collaboration, solve problems and generate new ideas.In some cases, companies are renting desks in co-working spaces, with an idea that workers from different companies, and with different skill sets, can complement one another. Some companies are also turning to shared workspaces as a way to save money on pricey leases or to house employees in areas where they don’t have other corporate offices.

While some companies say these co-working initiatives are too young to point to new products created from intercompany mingling, managers add the practice can help inject older firms with a start-up mentality and bring in new talent.

Initially popular among start-ups and freelance workers, co-working spaces are gaining traction among bigger employers who want their staff to cross-pollinate, or interact with employees from other firms.

“What’s appealing to the big businesses is they want to be near the places where the start-ups are,” says Steve King, a partner at Emergent Research, which researches workplace issues.

When workers are stuck on a tough problem, working outside of the office can help, Mr. Ware says. “Sometimes that change of scenery encourages you to think differently and that’s what we want.”

If you are looking for shared office space please click here to see the cool services eOffice has to offer. 

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Addleshaw Goddard is a London based Law firm, it has over 160 Partners, with an annual turnover in 2011 of £161.9 million. Their office space in based in London, in the Moorgate area. They also have offices in Leeds and Manchester, however the main office is based in London. They recently fit out the space, the result being a sleek and stylish office perfectly matched for the industry they are in. We especially like the use of  vivacious chairs as they help avoid the office looking bland!

Nice conference room

If you are looking for office space in London or meeting rooms in London eOffice has a range of facilities which would be perfect for you. Please click here to find out more.

McAllister Alcock Architects is the Australian architectural firm behind this cool office space. The space is the office space of an Australian real estate firm, according to the architects:

Conversion of an existing warehouse to create a new St Kilda office for an established Real Estate Agency. The existing bland box was ‘re-skinned’ with a new facade of perforated pre-weathered ‘Coreten’ steel. A landscaped screen provides a green outlook and ‘signposts’ the building. Additional floor area was created by inserting mezzanine spaces within the existing building volume, while maintaining the existing lofty ceilings over the ‘public’ areas.

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O2 is one of the UK’s largest telecoms businesses, owned by the Spanish telefonica. They recently fit out their office space in Slough.  The office space is 110,000 square feet including general office space, informal break-out areas, meeting rooms and storage.

On the outside this trunk has an industrial and textured surface, resembling a WWII aircraft bomber in some ways. On the inside however it is a totally different experience, hiding away is a compact fully functional office. This seems perfect for individuals who work at home and are tight on space and want to keep the clutter of a conventional home office away. What’s especially cool is that its portable!

90 York Way, London is the location of Guardian’s office space in London. Their office is spread over 142,000 square feet over several floors. The office is a mixture of open plan and cellular offices, a large staff restaurant, and a seminar and meeting room suite. A stainless steel and glass staircase was also installed.