Coworking: Dictating the Future of Workplace Design in Australia

Coworking: Dictating the Future of Workplace Design in Australia

Article by All Work

JUNE 2016

"Workplace design is no longer taking its lead from corporate offices, instead it’s flexible, people-friendly co-working spaces that are dictating future trends."

Gone are beige fittings, isolating cubicles and hushed formality. Here to stay are open spaces, creative colours and shapes as well as green features.

Angela Ferguson, MD of workplace design firm Futurespace, says Australia’s relatively young architecture and rebel spirit allows it to be more creative.

“In Europe you have buildings that are thousands of years old, but Australia doesn’t have a legacy of architecture that inhibits how we design. We also have a lack of regard for authority, we’re comfortable challenging the norm and are open to new ideas. This is why office design is really cutting edge here, because we’re keen to embrace new ideas, to explore and experiment,” Ferguson says.

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