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.

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters stairwell

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters stained glass panels on the second floor

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters 2nd floor office

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters central aisle on the second floor

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters colored glass hanging over the main entrance

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters 1st floor lobby

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters (left) stairwell (right) office area under atrium

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters stairwell as seen from the offices

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters (left) stairwell (right) atrium

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters entrance

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters street-side elevation

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters floor plan / level 0

 

 

people's architecture office: 21 cake headquarters floor plan / level 1