With a growing team of staff and the demand for headquarters reflecting Tatler Asia’s newly relaunched brand, Collective's design draws the sea and forest in while maximising the accommodation of workspaces.
The spatial arrangement takes cues from its surrounding elements; the breakout spaces, dine-in kitchen and living garden facing the luscious hillside backdrop, while desks and private meeting rooms look out onto the city with a bespoke carpet running a gradient of blue.
The 360° view is enabled by placing the ancillary areas such as for storage, phone booths, printers and editorial pin up spaces around the core; allowing the main workspace activities to be placed around the floor to ceiling windows to capture the maximum view.
The headquarter spans 1,000 sq m, featuring alcove garden seating and a dining kitchen, which doubles up as a flexible meeting and workspace, event venue, cocktail bar and dining room. Featuring a customised terrazzo kitchen island fitted with a built-in wine cooler, the space can instantly transform into an entertainment venue befitting Tatler Dining’s food and beverages programme.
The palette throughout the kitchen adopts an ash-grey and charcoal tone against the use of reflective bright aluminium, creating a contrast with the vibrant greenery and gives a nod to the industrial past of the neighbourhood. The customised theatre marquee lights hang above the kitchen island, evoking the feeling of a ‘bar-stage’.
Carefully balancing between private and public spaces is the key to workspace design. It allows the maximum accommodation for different programmes and activities for its users. In Tatler’s case, due to the nature of their journalistic work, the requirement for instrumental spontaneous encounters and creating a feeling of openness was equally paramount as private workspaces and quiet meeting rooms. The result is a casual yet luxurious multifunctional space which caters to the new generation workforce and contextual to its surroundings.