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Workplace · City of London · 2026

Confidential Tech: London

An unseen network, for the network that is unseen.

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The strategic insight

An unseen network, for the network that is unseen.

Client
Confidential, global technology
Location
City of London
Sector
Workplace
Year
2026
Status
In design

Two floors in the City of London for a global technology client. The brief: a workplace that mirrors the product. Quietly powerful, highly structured, with only key touchpoints visible. The London Underground served as the spatial metaphor: a rigid network of circulation and infrastructure, interrupted by deliberate moments of exposure, organic relief and unexpected depth. Sociopetal and sociofugal zones arranged as a gradient of sociability, from collective energy to concentrated work.

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What this project taught the engine

The in room iteration loop was established on earlier projects: the client present, decisions resolved in session, the design advancing at the speed of the conversation. This project added a further dimension: a project specific website, deployed by an agent in hours rather than weeks. A bid surface that evolved with the design, not after it. The configurator inside i/o spark is the design half of that loop; the deploy on demand microsite is the surface half.

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