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Pure and lucid, thou a cherished remembrance mine; Luminous the radiance of the moonbeam thine;

All the dross of earth washes away, through road rugged winding, we shall pass singing.

ELLE DECOR’s August issue has a full-feature article on a project recently completed by Robarts Spaces. This residential project is unique as the firm’s work focuses on workplace, healthcare, and education spaces. With the lines between work, home, wellness, and lifelong learning being blurred, this residence integrates a range of space formats to fulfill the client’s vision for a space that is both elegant and welcoming, while showcasing art pieces to realize their fullest effect.

Swire Properties invited Robarts Spaces to co-create a new workplace with a mission of enabling “staff to be their most innovative, effective and sustainable best selves”, offering a disruptive change in their ways of working for Swire and also serving as a benchmark for their own real-estate clients.

Inspiration for the design traces back to Swire’s history and is enlightened by emphasis on the local environment and the people who animate the space. With its beginnings in ocean shipping, over recent decades Swire has strongly committed to sustainable development. The new workplace puts environmental protection and human health at equal importance in all aspects including design concept, materials, furniture, lighting, acoustics, and air quality. This project has achieved both LEED Platinum and WELL Platinum certification.

Robarts Spaces Partner Yaching Hsueh presented at the WORKPLACE Shanghai Conference as a keynote speaker this month. Yaching shared our recently completed Swire Beijing project, sharing highlights of how this collaboration transformed the workplace with sustainability and wellness at the forefront of form and function. The result is an dynamic, inspiring, and uplifting benchmark office for Swire.

Robarts Spaces designers among others were invited to participate in the Haworth + Kvadrat Moodboard Contest in Shanghai in April. With more than ten teams in the spirited competition, the jury awarded the Robarts Spaces team as the winners.