Uber, WeWork, Airbnb: Check Out the Most Beautiful Offices of 2017

Airbnb’s new Dublin headquarters, built inside an abandoned warehouse, is the first office the company has designed from scratch. The huge staircase at the center serves as a working and meeting area.

The office is organized into 29 “neighborhoods,” or distinct space configurations to give staff plenty of options for places to work. The giant staircase offers a view of the office’s huge TV screen that’s used during presentations.

Meeting rooms draw inspiration from Portugal, Greece, and other places around the globe, but with an added twist: Like in many of the company’s offices, they’re modeled after actual Airbnb rentals.

Design firm Linehouse transformed a former opium factory into the Chinese flagship office for co-working company WeWork. The space combines old and new, with the original staircase and steel beams still intact.

In the kitchen, where customers can pull up a stool and chat over coffee or tea, fluorescent lights create what the design firm calls a “tropical retro” feel.

Booths and open work areas overlook the building’s sunny atrium. Hand-panted, poppy-patterned wallpaper plays up the office’s opium factory roots.

The ride-hailing company wanted its Pittsburgh office, home to its Advantage Technology Group Center (an R&D hub), to reflect its disruptive ambitions. At left is the “Tunnel of the Future,” featuring  renderings of different prototypes.

Assembly Design drew inspiration from the City of Steel when creating a vision for the space–walkways are designed to look like Pittsburgh bridges, while the wall in the open area at left is made of cor-ten steel, and was laser-cut to depict a map of Pittsburgh.

The showroom is where Uber engineers research and develop mapping and self-driving car technology. Garage doors slide open so that cars can go directly into the all-hands meeting area for employees to view.

Built into a Victorian era castle, Money.co.uk’s office combines old fashioned (and in some cases, straight-up medieval) elements with modern decor and splashes of color. Design firm Interaction gave the space new life but kept its traditional architecture.

Each room has a Sonos speaker system controlled by a wall-mounted iPad. Outside each meeting space is a touchscreen booking panel that’s linked to each employee’s personal calendar.

The fintech company’s many Star Wars fans helped influence the theme of the cinema. When it’s not being used for meetings, the room serves as a space for employees to screen movies, play video games, and snack from a popcorn machine.

Each of the four levels in genealogy company Ancestry’s office has several sun-splashed locations for lounging or collaborating. The hanging lanterns are meant to resemble DNA strands.

A wide range of colors and patterns nod to different cultures. The office, designed by Rapt Studio, overlooks the hills and mountains of northern Utah.

The office is true to the company’s roots–and those of its employees. The wall decor features portraits of long-time workers paired with photos of their ancestors.

Designed by Fitzsimmons Architects, the Oklahoma City regional offices of natural gas company BP Lower 48 uses lots of wood, stone, and natural colors and textures to create an organic look.

Fitzsimmons had to create a hole in the roof of the building to lower the main conference table, made out of chamcha wood, into the office.

The company paid homage to the building’s history as a former automotive dealership by keeping the operable overhead door that used to lead into the building’s showroom (now a space used by BP Lower 48 for meetings and events).

This co-working space relies on plant life of varying type and size as a key design element, as seen here in the office library. Design firm Going East drew inspiration from the High Line, New York’s vegetation-covered elevated park.

Employees can work at a large, candlelit multi-purpose table–and listen to music through built-in headphones if they crave some isolation.

A staircase doubles as a seating area for meetings and performances. Small touches like flowers, paintings, and area rugs are meant to make the office feel less like a place of work and more like a home.

When web hosting company OVH wanted to create a comfortable new office, they took their commitment to flexibility to a whole new level–each element in the office is movable, including the plant containers shown here.

A cedar boardwalk built by design firm Atelier Pierre Thibault runs down the middle of the office, giving the space a casual, central meeting area.

Enclosed offices are located on each side of the boardwalk, should employees want a little more privacy Glass doors allow staff to hunker down while enjoying views of Quebec City

This Portuguese coworking space is home to a whopping 1,000 plants. While the greenery serves a decorative purpose, it also help to improve the air quality and make the space more energy-efficient. 

In keeping with the space’s theme of promoting mental and physical wellbeing, the space has a dedicated wellness area for yoga classes, as well as a “lending library,” which contains more than 2,000 books in both English and Portuguese.

Designed by architecture firm SelgasCano, Second Home Lisboa is housed inside the Mercado Da Ribeira, a food market originally built in 1892. SelgasCano used plants to create privacy, rather than add new walls.

Squarespace began the process of designing its new 98,000 square foot headquarters two years ago with architecture firm A + I. Opened in March 2016, the only color in the minimalist space is the green plant life.

What the office lacks in color, it makes up for in sleekness. A + I used leather couches, coffee tables, and bookcases when furnishing the lounge areas, to make employees feel comfortable even in a very black-and-white space.

Squarespace’s offices take up the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors of Manhattan’s Maltz Building, formerly a manufacturing space. The office bar, located on the 12 floor, has picturesque views of its own, but so does the rooftop deck.