The vision was to create not just an office to work in every day, not just a ‘house’ for staff, but a place for shared experience, for making memories for storytelling.”įrom the reception, you step through into what could easily pass for a lived-in lounge room, with a tetris-like orange couch offering a comfortable breakout space. “So we created them a space that would feel like a home for the Dropbox Sydney family. “They wanted a space that was uniquely ‘Sydney’ but it still reflected the firm’s global values and DNA at the heart of it all,” Simon Trude of the Gensler team tells Collective Hub. (Which the office has, by the way – customised by iconic Bondi-based photographer Eugene Tan of Aquabumps, no less).ĭesigned in homage to the Australian home by architecture, design, planning and consulting firm Gensler, the office cleverly mimics the layout of the average (albeit amazing) local abode.
Stepping into the new Martin Place office of the first Australian outpost of file hosting company Dropbox is one such space: sure there are bottomless supplies of Tim Tams and tempting Playstation controllers dotted around the office, but the infused creativity and innovative spirit of the space is in so much more than the inclusion of the time-honoured ping pong table.
There are many things that tech companies are leading the charge on (from pioneering leave policies, tackling traditional communication models to simply ensuring that their product is top-notch), but if there’s one envy-inducing section of their inventive way of working, it’s the inclusion of a very, very cool office space.
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