A sense of welcome The first floor of Eversheds Sutherland's Paris headquarters, designed by Chambers architects, is dedicated to a client suite. It opens onto an inner courtyard reserved for the firm, and abundantly planted. Through the long glass wall, this vegetal décor is omnipresent from the moment visitors are welcomed. It accompanies them as they [...]
Eversheds to the essentials Scandinavian and Japanese interiors are often known for their ability to get to the heart of the matter. That the human element and its use take precedence over décor, even if the latter fulfils its function as discreetly as it is indispensable. The new Paris offices of Eversheds Sutherland, one of the world's largest international law firms, breathe this simplicity and rigor [...].
Making volume The 2D vision of space planning or the advantageous interior perspectives our customers are used to being confronted with without alternative, offer skewed representations of existing and projected volumes. But volume is the raw material of our design work. It is a source of both constraints and inspiration, at once [...]
All the light Unlike architecture, interior architecture, whether commercial or tertiary, has long tended to spontaneously think of light in its artificial version. The permanence of lighting in offices and stores, guaranteed at any time of day and in any weather, was a solid premise. Light [...]
Chambers architects is currently working on an exceptional project in Paris for the headquarters of a world leader in social networking. The group's new work place strategy, already deployed in London, Dublin and San Francisco, emphasizes the importance of local roots. But rather than play on Parisian imagery that has been seen over and over again, Chambers architects has [...]

May 9, 2025

Done and done

While the new Paris headquarters of Pinsent Masons, a British firm of international lawyers, does not reproduce the open-space layout chosen for all employees at the London headquarters, it does share with it an original signature space. In England, access to the building is via an attractive lounge area, which welcomes visitors [...].

Conventions inherited from bygone eras, when the hierarchy between noble and servant spaces was paramount, still influence the architectural design of office interiors, probably unconsciously. Quite naturally, we are asked to put meeting rooms on the first day and social areas on the second... It's not so long ago that [...]

February 27, 2025

Done and done

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For Anaplan, the visitor's tour was conceived as a brief journey between spectacular heritage and comfortable intimacy. It begins in one of the two halls on the first floor of the original Crédit Lyonnais headquarters, designed in 1878 by William Bouwens van der Boijen, a leading specialist in Parisian townhouses. The hall is lit by a glass roof, [...].
Anaplan, one of the leading suppliers of enterprise planning software, has chosen a unique address for its new headquarters: 18 rue du 4 septembre (Paris 2e), in the historic former Crédit Lyonnais building renowned for its extraordinary monumental glass roof. On the 3rd floor, in a 700m2 space, the client wanted a work environment [...].
The move of the Paris headquarters of Clyde & Co, an international law firm, from a Haussmann-style building to a rationalist, purely Sixties-style building, still in the 8th arrondissement, is by no means a sudden or hasty choice. For at least three years now, Chambers Architects has been studying the question of relocation, testing out a wide range of hypotheses and locations. The program, [...]