OnOffice pays a visit to east London to meet Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd, and find out how the design luminaries’ work has evolved across the years What Tom and I have always enjoyed are briefs,” says Luke Pearson. “A blank sheet of paper and a client saying, ‘Just give us something lovely’ has never ticked all the boxes for us. It’s like, where’s the challenge in that?” Pearson is the co-founder, along with Tom Lloyd, of the award-winning London-based design studio Pearson Lloyd. The p...
Architects Beyond Space and Fritschi Beis Architektur have collaborated with Holcim to design its office as a living showcase for material research, innovation and circular construction principles Holcim, a global leader in cement manufacturing and sustainable construction, has reimagined its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, to create a future-proof workspace that showcases material innovation and carbon-saving solutions in its design. The office spaces, which accommodate about 400 em...
London-based studio Industrial Facility, co-founded in 2002 by designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin, takes a thoughtful approach to contemporary life. It’s a perspective that leads to beauty as well as utility in their products, furniture and exhibitions When Sam Hecht imagines the image of a chair after a room empties, it is not a poetic interlude but a design problem. “When we leave,” he says, “does the room still exist? What is the chair doing? It still has a relationship to the walls,...