Google Moscow Office

Winner Best Office Awards 2011
COMFORT AND ERGONOMICS

Accommodation: Moscow Hotel Baltschug BC Plaza
Architectural bureau: CAMENZIND EVOLUTION
Architect: TANYA RUEGG (T. Ruegg)
General Contractor: FUDES
Ceiling: Lafarge, AcoustiShield, Lindner
Flooring: Carpet EGE
Office Partitions: NAYADA
The furniture in the working area: Steelcase (Supply - Office Solutions)
The Negotiating Group: Table - VITRA MEDAMORPH, chairs - VUSAROLL (supply - CONCEPT)
Upholstered furniture: PUSHE
The furniture in the cafeteria: RESTORACIA
Lights in the cafeteria: BARRISOL with prints
Fixtures: REGENT, IGUZZINI, LUMEN, FAGERHULT, BOVER, PALLUCCO, SCHMITZ, BRUMBERG
Supply of fixtures: DREAM LIGHT
Cuisine: ELECTROLUX
Graphic prints: FOREST, PHENOTECH
Total area: 2600 square meters. m
Design: February-April 2010
Construction: May-October 2010
Photographer: Eugene Luchin

The new Google office occupies an entire floor at the business center Baltschug Plaza. In two thousand six hundred square meters, except for jobs, post 18 meeting rooms, 2 massage rooms, cafe Samobranka and kitchenette.

Google has moved into a new office in Moscow on December 8, 2010 in year five-year presence in the Russian market. Gathered under one roof staff development department, sales and marketing, previously worked in two different buildings.

In developing the concept of the new office was attended by the employees themselves Google - the interiors are based on their preference. Moscow Googlers wanted to create an office that reflects the corporate culture of Google, but it had the "Russian soul". As a result, the choice fell on Russian folk tales, and favorite childhood cartoons and films. Entire office, including meeting rooms, decorated in the style of famous works. For example, you can sit on a replica of "12 chairs" in the negotiation of the same name, spinning the wheel in "Vrungel, count birds in the" 38 Parrots "or the warm hearth in the Pope Carlo.

In "Russian" style decorated and other areas of the office. Thus, the reception desk made of brick, which reflects the architectural heritage of the Moscow Kremlin. Cafe "Samobranka" similar to the refectory in traditional Russian style: buffet table laid out with tiles, handmade tile, and patterns of stained glass lamps on the ceiling made by the ornamental painting of St. Basil's Cathedral. These ideas are brought to life designer Tatiana Ruegg, who worked on the interior of the Zurich office of Google.

As in other offices of Google, the employees in Moscow there is a possibility in his free time playing table tennis and football, mini-pool or video games.
Office became the center of the magic forest - Curved seashore, where the bar you can drink coffee and chat with colleagues in almost home. Here in the woods is a small library with a soft and comfortable sofas and shelves of books. There were, of course, no Memorial Solovetsk Antiquities - huts on chicken legs, which like to gather to discuss the project engineers Google.

"Moving in - a very important event for us and a wonderful gift for five years, Google employees in Russia. Надеюсь, что это сказочная атмосфера поможет нам создавать еще более интересные разработки и новые сервисы для наших пользователей», - отмечает Владимир Долгов, генеральный директор Google в России. I hope that this is a fantastic atmosphere to help us create even more interesting developments and new services for our customers ", - said Vladimir Dolgov, Google CEO in Russia.

"Moving in - a very important event for us and a wonderful gift for five years, Google employees in Russia. I hope that this is a fantastic atmosphere to help us create even more interesting developments and new services for our customers ", - said Vladimir Dolgov, Google CEO in Russia.

NOKIA Office in Moscow

Winner Best Office Awards 2010
COMFORT AND ERGONOMICS

The company takes part 5 floors in the renovated building Voentorg. Office is designed "for growth". On the development and consolidation booked about 15% of the area and jobs.
Nokia Representative Office
Accommodation: Moscow, BC "Voentorg"
Project Manager: EC Harris
General Contractor: Fudes Construction
Architectural bureau: Gullsten-Inkinen Design & Architecture (Finland)
The furniture in the work areas and meeting rooms: Steelcase, Brunner Immobilien, VITRA
Supply of Furniture: Office Solutions
Office space: 2900 square meters. m
Implementation: October 2008 - March 2009

At present it employs approximately 110 people. The hierarchy of employees not emphasized. All very democratic. Designated managers are in open space, workstations are the same as that of ordinary workers. The office has only one office, but a lot of colorful negotiation - home at 10 and 8 seats, trening-room, a place for presentations.

Here really care about people, about a comfortable job, why have not stinted on equipment places for recreation. Previously, employees of the Moscow office housed in the offices, and are accustomed to isolation. The abundance of areas for socializing, not least dictated by a desire to smooth out the negative from the transition to work in open space.

Designers had to use products that meet the corporate style. Regulated colors for offices Nokia - orange, green, blue are present everywhere - in flooring, furniture and wall colors. Also stipulated the principle of zoning with different levels of lighting and installation of ceilings. Have to be a "roll call" in the design of the ceiling and floor. Design of the Moscow office was created by the same team of architects, which designed the interiors of the company in Finland.

In fact, all Nokia offices in different countries have common features. Although no copy no. For example, the reception desk will be done to a tee, but always very similar to other reception at Nokia. In this project, consider the Russian specifics. Some things to our compatriots difficult to accept. For example, throughout the world in the offices of Nokia employees have different jobs. No usual tables. In the Moscow office of the company have found a compromise: the individual left the place, and instead of pedestals next to a table set special cabinets. In the decoration of their offices Nokia tries not to use natural materials. The only exception - the wooden ceiling in the recreation area and small bar in the dining room.

Says manager logistics office NOKIA, Marina Skoltsova: "All the interiors of NOKIA in the world is now organized into open space. The old office in the mansion Stoleshnikov was one of the last, where they worked in offices. In the West, widely implemented the system mobile office when people are not secured in their jobs. We expect that this will become our reality in a year and a half. We have a clear forecast of how many in the Moscow office will be outside and how many permanent staff, a number of guests and customers. Based on it, is calculated as the space should be organized. I try to accommodate all the "global" standards, to our Russian reality, and make the work of my colleagues, most convenient and quiet.

Our interiors with Jari Inkin - Finnish architect who designed the main office of NOKIA in Finland. It is believed that in terms of technology and design - the Moscow offices of one of the best NOKIA. Convenient layout, modern design, beautiful acoustic ceilings, good insulation in false-floors. In terms of technology all decided very wisely, for example, Wi-Fi in all areas of office, instead of projections, we use plasma panels, which enables to arrange entertainment, beautiful presentation. What distinguishes the Russian office of the other? Finnish architects have done to us two reminders of the "spirit of place" - a lamp in the work area and lobby surrounded by classic embossed rosettes, and the kitchen is decorated with lights, reminiscent of the church dome.

In November, FUDES celebrated 11 years of successful business within the Russian Federation, to mark the occasion FUDES held a party for staff and friends at the new Moscow indoor Ski center, most of the guests tried their hand at skiing on the new indoor hill with varying degrees of success, this was followed by a excellent meal and drinks in the centers German themed restaurant.

We are happy to announce that there were no broken bones in either of the evening's two sections and all the participants made it home safely and in one piece, however there were a number of complaints about headaches the following morning!