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CLOU Beijing Office

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Kaan Alpagut
Kaan Alpagut Design Manager, Workplace Experience at The Lego Group
Beautiful details and a very pleasa...
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Donald Strum
Donald Strum President at Michael Graves Design
The interior reads as austere and u...
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Alexander Fehre
Alexander Fehre Founder at Studio Alexander Fehre
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Hilda Impey
Hilda Impey Creative Partner and Founder at Hilda Impey Studio
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Wenke Lin
Wenke Lin Founder and Design Director at BDSD Boundless Design
It's an office environment that res...
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Monika Choudhary
Monika Choudhary Cofounder and Creative Director at Habitat Architects
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Sabine de Schutter
Sabine de Schutter Founder and CEO at Studio De Schutter
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Yuko Tsukumo
Yuko Tsukumo General Manager at Nikken Sekkei
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Maud Capet
Maud Capet Associate Principal - Interior Design at OBMI
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A new chapter for CLOU Beijing Within the familiar surroundings of Sanlitun SOHO, CLOU Beijing office has doubled in size to take up half a tower floorplate on the 17th floor, with a fully glazed facade offering sweeping views across Sanlitun and into the mountains of North Eastern Beijing. Flexible workspaces for complementary ways of collaboration Cool and clean lines define different zones of work, communication, research and display, connected by CLOU’s signature silver galvanized walls – a feature that has been threading through all spaces since the office‘s inception. Black and white materials and furniture contrast with warm wood and color accents, softly mirrored in the reflection of the steel. Brightly lit open office zones are complemented by various meeting rooms for in-person and virtual encounter. Each space adds own characteristics – the boardroom with its glass enclosure around bright blue flooring and warm orange-red fabric, a more intimate conference space with warm wood furniture on speckled green terrazzo, and a cave-like all-wood retreat for quiet work and conversation. On-site trying and testing A proper workshop occupies a large area of the office: in a zone for modelmaking, design tests, and material research, the wood clad environment integrates workbenches and 3D machinery with library storage and archive rooms. Flexible furnishing allows for quick conversion into a photo studio or a mini-auditorium for inter-office presentations. Stepped display areas connect workplace and workshop along a communal meeting zone: where steel and wood intersect, models of projects past, present and future showcase progress and variety while benchmarking possibility and quality. Lustrous foundation: Terrazzo The new Beijing office references terrazzo, taking it from the bright floors of our retail spaces in order to let it work as a means of territorial definition: open office areas are laid out to zone common and shared spaces in gleaming brightness, while meeting spaces encapsulate in subtle accent colors. Boldly striped contrast patterns create spatial dynamics in the lively community and circulation axis. Emotive enclosure: Wood Wood conveys sensory warmth and underlines the creative, generative character of environments. In our office, it inscribes our workshop and think tank spaces that bracket the space at its extremes. Clean slate: Galvanized steel Galvanised steel panels have afforded all CLOU offices to date with flexibility and multi-use surfaces. The material’s sharp and cool appearance, its non-directional surface pattern and its magnetic properties render the surfaces of the functional wall and furniture cladding a versatile canvas for all representation of our design processes on display. From the main entrance through the design floor and the communal areas, the softly distorting reflections emphasize industrious brightness in a connective gesture.