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or its loft-like offices inside a spacious industrial warehouse in Amsterdam, the creative studio Onesize—they work in various mediums ranging from motion graphics and animation to visual effects and film and T.V. production—worked with the Rotterdam-based sustainable design firm Origins Architecture to create a contemporary workspace that is both functional and structurally innovative.

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nspired by natural habitats like cocoons, beehives and spiders’ nests, British designer Liam Hopkins created a cozy dining space at Bloomberg’s London headquarters. Using reclaimed cardboard and pallets, Hopkins created a cave-like shelter that protects a rectangular table inside. The frame is made of an astonishing 3972 triangular cardboard borders, while the same number fill the inside. Held together by 11000 nails that had been reclaimed from wooden pallets, the resulting structure was built first in triangular sections, then assembled on-site by hand. ‘Pupa utilises the structural and acoustic properties of cardboard,’ Hopkins says. The project was created for Arts Co. and Bloomberg’s Waste Not, Want It series of specially-commissioned art and design projects made almost wholly of Bloomberg’s waste.

A former 1940s brick and timber warehouse has been converted into a modern office in San Fransisco. The challenge for IwamotoScott Architecture was to respect budget and schedule constraints while redesigning the space to include workstations for digital production, prototyping, a showroom and meeting space. The office is owned by interactive media brand Obscura Digital. The impressive 3345-sq-m space is divided between three levels. The lowest level contains the workshop and showroom, while the reception, meeting spaces and main offices on the middle level. Production space is on the top floor. A focal point is the custom-made BookCaseScreenWall – an array of 186 folded sheet metal modules. The pieces were laser-cut and attached to 31 vertical ribs suspended from an existing steel structural beam.