people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters

people’s architecture office: 21 cake headquarters all images courtesy of people’s architecture office

chinese firm people’s architecture office has recently completed the new ’21 cake headquarters’ for the popular gourmet pastry franchise in beijing. the two-layer light-grey office holds all the rich flavors of vibrant tones inside, topped with a large skylight. white surfaces on the interior act as backdrops for the laminated panes of primary colors, red, blue and yellow. depending on one’s position and sequence through the hallway, the overlapping planes visually overlap to create a different combinations of resultant hues spanning the range of the rainbow, illuminated by natural and artificial light. the furniture, also in vanilla tones, are fragments of geometries that can fit into one another as puzzle pieces, allowing for flexibility in reunion space and function.

stairwell

stained glass panels on the second floor

2nd floor office

central aisle on the second floor

colored glass hanging over the main entrance

1st floor lobby

(left) stairwell (right) office area under atrium

stairwell as seen from the offices

(left) stairwell (right) atrium

entrance

street-side elevation

floor plan / level 0

floor plan / level 1