Pallet office, Amsterdam

The stacked-pallet 'desks' are positioned along the longitudinal axis of an otherwise totally white surrounding space, with the pallets laid one on top of the other with small displacements. This instils the office 'furniture' with a visually dynamic character, while at the same time the workstations remain structurally sound. Even the stairs to the upper part of the split level – itself housing four additional desks intended for the management, plus a meeting/presentation room with a large pallet-table – have been made with an ingeniously jumbled pile of pallets. The stairs also serve to screen a sort of lunch or break table at the lower level's rear from the rest of the workspace. Behind that lies a studio area, where the architects took a different approach and installed white desks in a gleaming, minimal arrangement that maintains a visual continuity – via its overall whiteness and the contrasting black accents of cables and desk chairs – with furnishings in the other areas, such as light fixtures and banisters.