Hip offices are a match made in heaven for dating HQ

Project: Tinder Headquarters

Location: West Hollywood, California, United States

Award: Workspace Interiors: Corporate Offices (Over 10,000 sqm), Silver, 2023

Design Practice: Rapt Studio

Client: Match Group

The new 77,000-square-foot Tinder Headquarters are designed to accommodate diverse styles of working for different people. The experience begins upon entry to The Commons, modelled on a traditional town square. As the largest space, it facilitates casual encounters with colleagues and offers space to circulate and chat. It hosts company-wide events, with benches placed at angles for facilitating conversation.

On floor two, the café, or “Boost Bar”, pays homage to the local coffee shop. Two more levels up is Game Over, the IT help desk inspired by a neighbourhood arcade.

"LA Galleria" on floor five pulls elements from the workshops and displays of artist studios. Diffuse lighting, custom modular furniture on wheels, and walls clad in top-to-bottom whiteboards make it easy to pin up work and talk it all through with colleagues.

Design highlights

A quieter area can be found within The Stacks on floor six. It features a custom hot-pink table with cut-outs along the edges, designed to support focused work by fostering the feeling of being together without distraction.
The pinnacle space rests in a hidden corner of floor seven: dubbed “5 p.m.,” it draws on the private, exclusive qualities of a speakeasy, with visitors entering via a false phone booth.

Photo credits: Zach Sorensen