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Hoping to attract to their offices, corporations are designing “work centers,” luxury spaces meant to rival the comfort and versatility of their living room.
By Stacey Freed
Visitors to the Springline hotel in Menlo Park, California, feel surrounded by a sense of comfort and luxury found in high-end hotels: off-white walls with a Roman clay finish, a gray and white marble coffee table, and a white leather bench. under an 8 x four resin canvas engraved with the words “Hello, Tomorrow”. The characteristic smell of Springline (notes of salty sea air, white water lily, dried musk and sweet melon) lingers in the air.
But Springline is not a hotel. It’s a “workplace,” which means that the design of its spaces is inspired by boutique hotels.
The hotel sits on a 6. 4-acre public square, a short walk from the Menlo Park Caltrain station in the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes two high-end workplace buildings, nine restaurants, workspaces and terraces where other people can socialize and connect, play sports facilities, a high-end golf simulator, a high-end Italian grocery store and a 183-unit residential building. And like any smart hotel, it offers a calendar of network events ranging from craft cocktail lounges to quiet nightclubs.
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The concept comes from the “symbol of a resort, a lovely location or a lovely building, anything that makes you say, ‘I need to see this experience, I need to be there,'” said Matthias Hollwich, founding director of global design. HWKN company that designs a professional resort, Sky Island in Canada Water, in London. “It’s not like home. It’s not like other buildings. This is new.
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