AIT 10.2025 Office Buildings – Workspaces by and for Interior Designers/Architects

When it comes to their own workspaces and offices, interior designers/architects seem to have endless design possibilities – no client to contradict or make demands, and the budget is in their own hands. What happens when planners are also clients? This is what happened in Stuttgart: in the former Wilhelminian-style industrial quarter of Mörikehof, the museum designers from Space4 now have plenty of space for their ideas and a colorful working environment that employees look forward to every day. At OnEarthStudio in Xi’an, China, it is also an existing building that now houses their office and research rooms. These have little in common with German workplace guidelines, but the low-tech solution made of plywood, structural steel, and black wooden slats is all the more atmospheric. In the new Fabrik Office building in Obersendling, Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen has designed 3,500 square meters of office space for itself and the consulting group Ramboll – with furniture and ceilings made from waste wood, carpets made from recycled marine plastic, and fixtures made from former formwork boards. But the other 30 or so projects we researched on the subject of offices and administration are also characterized by the conscious use of space and materials and present appropriate and independent solutions. Do you have any plans for the fall break? Several new museums are currently making a name for themselves and attracting visitors with brand-new concepts, which we report on: the Maritime Museum in Stralsund, the Mother-of-Pearl Museum in Adorf, and the “Museum Island of the Future” in Bremerhaven.