Equity Estate is a global ‘boutique practice’ for asset management and management services that focuses on corporate real estate.
Requiring open plan workstations, enclosed offices, large and small meeting rooms, a kitchenette and informal meeting spaces, Hollandse Nieuwe created the concept around the client's core business: real estate.

The story of real estate became a leading factor throughout the design. It is the experience of space, a symbiosis of the architectural and the interior. The result is enduring and simple, a space not recognizable at first glance as an office. Transparencies and solid surfaces mark a clear and minimalistic division between public and private functions. These open and closed areas are set up in plan as a rigid, symmetrical pattern. This allows for easy navigation through the space, while the combination of materials like glass and a cork resin floor create an acoustically refined and intimate experience.

The colour palette reflects this strict understanding of space, consisting of black and grey tones. Two types of laminated glass resulted into subtle differences of reflectivity and transparency, with these qualities used as a tool for visibility.

The combination of this rigid design starting point, hard materialization, refined detailing, and considered reflections and transparencies has created a poetic and atmospheric world, a world that reflects the specific functional needs and cultural values of Equity Estate.