We spend most of our lives in offices, so it makes sense that they should offer an enjoyable aesthetic and spatial experience. The advent of the startup, or more accruatetly, “startup culture,” has transformed the office-as-cubicle-drudgery into the hip office-as-lounge. See Frank Gehry’s sprawling campus design for Facebook, a 10-acre “neighborhood” consisting of numerous “subdivisions” where “friends” work, chat, and brainstorm amid sculptural fish-like desks and feature graffiti walls; or AOL’s spunky Palo Alto Headquarters, a warehouse full of neon-tinged work and break “zones.” Or have  a look at the following projects, which all imaginatively reinvent the workplace in more ways than one. Some take the formal approach, others play with program and performance, while still more focus on interiors.

These are the Architizer A+  finalists for the best Office Building Low Rise (1-4 floors), Mid Rise (5-15 floors), and High Rise (16+), plus best Office Interiors. Click through for the images!

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CENTRA Metropark
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Iselin, United States

Vakko Fashion Center
REX
Istanbul, Turkey

Asfinag Office Building
Peter Lorenz Atelier
Innsbruck, Austria

Employee Hub at Dollar General Distribution Center
Leo A. Daly
Bessemer, United States

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
EHDD
Los Altos, California

OFFICE BUILDING MID RISE (5-15 Floors)

Salewa Spa Headquarters
Park Associati, Cino Zucchi Architetti
Bozen, Italy

Daum Space.1
Mass Studies
Jeju Province, South Korea

iGuzzini Illuminazione Ibérica Headquarters
Josep MiAS ARCHITECTS
Barcelona, Spain

Shanghai Huawei Technologies Corporate Campus
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Shanghai, China

House VolkerWessels
De Zwarte Hond
Amersfoort, Netherlands

OFFICE BUILDING HIGH RISE (16+ Floors)

Photo: Tim Griffith

Al Hamra Tower
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Kuwait City, Kuwait

Leatop Plaza
JAHN
Zhuijang, China

China Steel Corporation Headquarters
ARTECH-INC
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

0-14 Tower
Reiser + Umemoto
Dubai, UAE

Tianjin Global Financial Center
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Tianjin, China

OFFICE INTERIORS

One Shelley Street
Clive Wilkinson Architects
Sydney, Australia

Office 04
i29 interior architects
Amstelveen, Netherlands

Chongqing Mountain & City Sales Office
One Plus Partnership Ltd
Nanshan, Chongqing, China

Collapsable Workstations
Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design
New York

The New Offices of the Botín Foundation in Madrid
MVN arquitectos
Madrid, Spain

by Architizer Editors

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