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Some of our insights on designing over 200 law firm workplaces are featured in both Popoffices and Toutiao. To understand the six key shifts in legal office design, see the Popoffice post here and the Toutiao post here.

Interior Design Magazine has featured Robarts Spaces 65,000 sqm New Frontier United Family Hospital in Shenzhen. This project encompasses façade and interior design for the reuse and adaptation of the 20 year old unused and abandoned hospital building structure. The Robarts Spaces team embraced the design challenges and transformed this abandoned space into Shenzhen New Frontier United Family Hospital, a private comprehensive hospital offering a patient-centric environment.

This hospital space is open, flexible and full of natural light. The stretched petal shaped ceiling looks like the waves of the sea, as well as the rich blue tones inspired by the sea and the bay. The outdoor landscaping on the south side of the building is specially made into an open garden, allowing more connections between the hospital and the surrounding communities. Click here to see the article in ID.

Robarts Spaces Design Director Wang Yi and Senior Interior Designer Zhang Zhenru were invited as keynote speakers by the Nanjing Forum 2022 on office design trends. They shared CBC Group Shanghai Office, a recent Robarts Spaces design and build project.

CBC Group Shanghai Incubation Center challenges and explores the traditional office space, acting as a dialogue for workplace “transformation” during the Covid pandemic.

The new workplace is located in prosperous Shanghai Jing’an district. The design aspires to attract the energy from the city and create an immersive oasis in the concrete jungle. The space allows people to gather, reinvigorate, communicate, and be inspired.

Upon arrival, the guest is immediately welcomed by either a handcrafted coffee or personal greeting from a team member, in contrast to a traditional reception. Guests and employees can select their seating as they wish. Greenery is ever present. The warm palette and detailed service of this new space provides all with a feeling of comfort, rejuvenation, and healing from the fast-paced metropolis.

Across the elevator lobby, extreme simplicity and purity is purposely designed into the space. Light marble and earth tone furniture are used to give a first impression of stability, reliability and strength as the core values of CBC Healthcare Infrastructure Platform.

In the open office area, private offices are placed near the building core, allowing staff at the open workstations full access to natural light. The warmth and comfort of the entire space are achieved through design and deep cooperation with the client by putting the wellbeing of all staff and guests at the forefront.

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Robarts Spaces Partner and Design Director, Yaching Hsueh, and Design Director, Wang Yi, were featured as keynote speakers at Guangzhou Design Week.

Their presentation focused on Robarts Spaces co-creation with Swire for their new Beijing workplace, sharing the extensive collaboration which began with a series of workshops with a wide range of Swire employees, leading to a design focused on collaboration, welllness, and sustainability.

Several months after the workplace was completed, Robarts Spaces conducted a rigorous Post-Occupancy Evaluation with Swire which evaluated usage, staff satisfaction, and achievement of project goals. Learnings from the Post Occupancy Evaluation are being used in the design for an expansion to the workplace, and can subsequently be used in across Swire's new workplaces.

This collaborative ongoing process of co-creation, analysis, and learning breaks through the boundaries of traditional design and build, offering innovation to both design and workplace strategy. For more information, please click here.