Trees, picnic tables, swings, high-end design, colour, wood, steel. It sounds chaotic, but the concept behind Google’s offices in Tel Aviv proves harmonious and relaxing, and well suited to inspiring employees and spurring their creativity.
The design is by the architecture firm Camenzind Evolution, in collaboration with Setter Architects and the studio Yaron Tal.
Together, this imaginative team has staged a magical world that occupies 7 floors of the Electra Tower skyscraper in the Israeli city.
On every level, the layout clearly separates the areas intended for meetings, or simply for conversation and the exchange of ideas, from those that provide the quiet and privacy needed for individual work or by an employee who simply needs them.
Each floor, of roughly 8,000 sq. m, was shaped through a different approach, which conveys, in terms of meaning, the diversity of Israel as a country and as a nation.
And besides the conventional means of moving around inside the building – stairs and lifts – there is also the alternative of a slide to shoot down to the floor below!
Edited by: Ioanna Pavlopoulou
