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SPORTS OFFICE
By Nam Khuong
Photographs taken at Adidas Office 22F - Bitexco Financial Tower, District 1, HCMC.
Designed and Built by TTT Corporation - 36 Ly Tu Trong, District 1, HCMC.
Stepping into the 22nd floor of Bitexco Financial Tower, you will see a youthful, dynamic and modern office space. Nothing is hard to understand because this is an office of a well-known brand in sports : ADIDAS!
Due to the occupation of the entire floor of one storey in an ellipse-ground building, the arrangement of functional spaces of this office is also influenced certainly by the general curve. Architect VO CAO THANG – the senior interior designer for this office said: "This building has an ellipse space so the inherent curves created interesting features for the space, however, it also makes the interior arrangement a little bit difficult. We agree with the plan of basing on the space to make the most reasonable layout. It is important to use the color and decoration so that the space wells up its simpleness and carries strongly mark of Adidas, a sport style”.
Those features are firstly expressed in a pair of white – black used in all spaces. This is also a pair of colors on Adidas logo. Referring to Adidas, we cannot forget to mention the three lines on the logo which formats the brand of that group and at this office that is three blue vertical stylized lines on the wall of the reception area. It is also used for the ceiling area of the large meeting room. The reception area is a combination of pieces of white, black and gray, a good match of cubes, of floor and ceiling, etc. Light plays a very positive role, for example, white light comes into interior materials makes everything become luxury, and yellow light from spotlight is a highlight and creates warmness... All contributes to make a simple receiving space with a very specific style.
The working area is decent, especially the youthfulness is expressed by the open of ceiling to show the entire ceiling structures above. The pretty interesting thing which makes the spirit in this office is the posters decorated with images associated with sports activities. These posters appear everywhere and are frequently changed by the employees. The participation of decoration for their own office is also a way to make the employees here attached to their space.
In the economic stage with many fluctuations at present, there are many things needed to be calculated upon conversion of an office from one building to another building. Saving of investment costs is always considered carefully. With the Adidas office, success is that with a moderate and reasonable investment level, they have a nice office with high efficiency of use.
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