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A Modern Office Takes Over a Classic Building

Estelle Vincent Architecture was hired with the daunting task of designing the new headquarters of Ekimetrics within a classic Haussmann building on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The building comes with historical significance and traditional charm, while Ekimetrics is a marketing company that’s dynamic and artistic. The challenge was to merge the two to create a cohesive office space fit for the young brand within 1000 square meters (10,763 square feet).

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To help break up the larger rooms of the office, which house a large number of workstations, they designed structures within these open spaces to add some privacy for informal conference rooms, like the above Eki.Cube.

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The Eki.Cube adds two meeting rooms to the large space within its wooden structure. On one side, there are built-in lockers and a slide! On the other, there’s a staircase.

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Because every office needs a slide!

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The bottom level of the Eki.Cube is a meeting spot for employees.

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The top floor of the Eki.Cube provides another semi-private room for employees to gather for informal meetings.

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The Eki.Cabin is in the main meeting hall and holds an office space for two people.

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The Eki.Cabin also transforms to become a meeting room with the 24 modules it’s built to hold. The wooden boxes can be moved around to become different things, like a stage, steps, or seats.

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The Eki.Truck space houses the kitchen behind its food truck facade and is a place for employees to relax and have a cup of coffee.

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Photos by Arnaud Schelstraete.

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in photography from SCAD and can usually be found searching for vintage wares, doing New York Times crossword puzzles in pen, or reworking playlists on Spotify.