The Living Rooms - LOM architecture and design

LOM helped a major financial institution to deliver a flexible workplace concept for their London headquarters. The result is The Living Rooms – a vibrant office space that applies co-working principles to create a new kind of corporate workspace.

The design facilitates different ways of working based on individual needs and preferences, with flexible technology allowing staff to choose where and how to work every day.

The 2,600 square metre space is designed for employees who can work flexibly without needing fixed personal desks. This allows a workspace with 400 desks to host up to 800 people.

“This co-working inspired office offers a whole new workplace experience by bringing together technology, interior design, furniture, materials, graphics and planting in a welcoming and human-centric space. ”

John Avery, LOM Director

The floor has three distinct areas: Dawn (south-east facing), Day (north facing) and Dusk (north-west facing), which wrap around a central atrium ‘garden’ and The Garden Cafe. These areas are tied together by a sinuous circulation route that subtly guides people around the floor. A soft and natural interior scheme used throughout is designed to support wellbeing and productivity.

We’ve provided fully ergonomic, height adjustable desks, shared kitchen style desks, partially or fully enclosed individual work positions, scrum areas, flexible meeting spaces and quiet, mobile-free zones. An app was developed to track use and visualise the availability of desk space in real time.

This is a new generation office space for the company, providing high specification interiors that work twice as hard by using only half of the space that would have been needed.

The project is a finalist in this year’s Mixology and British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards.