Five cool London offices that make business a pleasure

Fond as we are of our own luxurious headquarters, we thought we’d see how we stack up against some of London’s swankest workplaces. Click through to check out some of the most enviable offices in London…

Google‘s London HQ got a seriously sci-fi upgrade by Penson late last year. These shots might look like they’re of a distant space station orbiting Andromeda, but they’re actually in a office block next to Victoria station.  ’Flight pods’ (or meeting rooms to us mortals) are walled with whiteboards, plus there are all the music, game and chill-out rooms you’d expect from a company with more money than God.

The Macquarie Group offices (by Clive Wilkinson Architects, photos courtesy Riddle-Stagg) have big, glowing red stairs floating in the middle, creating a slightly ‘M.C Escher’ effect:

Mind Candy (the folks behind kids craze Moshi Monsters) have chosen the natural over the futuristic in their Shoreditch offices. We especially love their treehouse:

Forward Internet Group‘s Camden offices feature some extra-classy touches, including a meeting room that looks a bit like it’s from a dream sequence, and a cosy amphitheatre:

Photo: Mel Yates

Photo: James Carnegie

Innocent Drinks haven’t spared their cute trademark love-it-or-loathe-it copywriting at their Kensal Green HQ…

The door (well, from their former offices) :

The doormat:

And here’s the verdant communal area:

Meanwhile, here at Time Out Towers, we boast the double-threat of our much-loved neon sign:

And our lively carpeting scheme, from the Bad Trip ’91 range:

That said, the view can be quite nice sometimes…

Got a cool office- or a super-depressing one? Either way, we want to see it, so Tweet us, post it on our Facebook wall, share it in our Flickr group or, y’know, just send us an email. - Guy Parsons

Tags: architecture, Camden, google, innocent, kensal green, london offices, shoreditch, time out towers, victoria