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
