In the tranquil little country of Liechtenstein, a small office was in dire need of an update.

Given the limitations of a rented property, an intimate office was created, perfectly suited to the small team and the desired public image.

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In the Medeu ski resort near Almaty, Kazakhstan, cabins and various other infrastructure are being built using sustainable construction methods to both develop and protect the area.

One of the project developers opened a planning office right there on site, and we had the pleasure of creating a design for it.

Just asking for a friend... can you ski into the office there?

And while we were already busy with new, exciting projects, many diligent and talented hands were working on the realization of the previously announced nursing home project.

After a styling session that provided the finishing touch, the dining rooms with their themed worlds of "Garden," "Museum" and "Delft Blue" were officially opened and put into use yesterday!
And there is more to come...keep you posted!

First office project in beautiful Switzerland...and what a project it is!

4,000 square meters spread over three floors are waiting to be transformed into the world of activity-based working.

The foundation has been laid; now it's time to roll up our sleeves and get the process started.

We'll examine where the needs lie, what the wishes are, what workflows exist in the respective departments, and how we can get the employees on board.

It's going to be an exciting journey.

Keep us posted!

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Abu Dhabi"?

Desert, camels and skyscrapers?

Those were also the first thoughts when the design for the staff canteen at the Marriott Hotel Al Forsan Abu Dhabi was created.

But the more you learn about this fascinating country, the more you discover about mangroves, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and the famous Louvre Museum.

These highlights were to be reflected in the staff canteen (78 seats) with its adjoining terrace (38 seats).

The result is a harmonious space, divided into a lounge, a bar area, and a general seating area with long tables that invite socializing.

It's no secret that the hotel industry struggles to find qualified professionals. Working hours are challenging, salaries are often modest, and training is truly extensive and not for the faint of heart.

But when the workplace itself is outdated and unattractive, it becomes even more difficult to attract and retain young talent.

The General Manager of the Rainicance Brussels understood this, and together we developed a back office that meets the standards of a four-star hotel. A smart move to future-proof the operational heart of the hotel!

Anyone who has had experience with dementia in their family or circle of friends knows, how burdensome this disease is for those affected, their relatives, and also the caregivers.
And it's difficult to tear loved ones away from their familiar surroundings
and place them in "strangers'" hands.

That's why it's rewarding to create common areas for everyone involved, spaces that make the work of the care staff easier and the stay more pleasant for the residents and their families.

We have developed themed living and dining rooms that gently evoke sweet memories: of a beach bar, a conservatory, an old-fashioned pub, a farm, a museum, a garden, and much more.

We are delighted that we were able to officially open the first two rooms, the beach bar and the orangery, today!

A truly exceptional project!

We had the opportunity to develop 8 holiday apartments in Almaty, Kazakhstan, fully furnished with IKEA products. These were shipped from the Netherlands to Almaty in collaboration with the International Sales Department of Inter IKEA Systems in Delft, Netherlands.

In addition to the usual criteria for furnishing rental properties, such as durability, functionality, and longevity, our client placed great emphasis on making guests feel at home.

And judging by the guest reviews on the portal, we certainly succeeded! Congratulations, Aida!

An Amsterdam hotel, that wanted to provide its employees with relaxing breaks and a comfortable retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily hotel life, needed help.
The challenge: T
he room was rather small and located in the hotel's basement.

We gladly accepted this challenge and created a break room with 44 seats that feels more like an Amsterdam café. Friendly colors, pleasant lighting, room dividers, and green plants complete the picture.
 

Enjoy your breaks and eet smakelijk!

What's so special about designing an office for just 30 employees?

Well, for one thing, this office is located in Jakata, not exactly a place you encounter every day.

Secondly, yes, it's a manageable space for a manageable number of people, but it still needs to include all the elements of a modern work environment. Besides electrically adjustable workstations, the obligatory meeting rooms, the reception area, and the cafeteria, we've also created an open area for team collaboration, a small, secluded lounge, and a room for practical workshops.

One more reason for me to add Jakata to my travel list!

And another FIRST!

The first outlet mall in Kuwait has opened.

Our client also wanted to be part of this pioneering project!

As part of the store's planning, we were entrusted with the design of the in-house bistro, because even outlet shopping makes you hungry and thirsty.

The highlight of this project was undoubtedly the implementation in
Al Khiran, Kuwait!

What an experience!

With this design study for a Short Stay Unit in São Paulo\Brazil we  wanted to explore if we can develope:

• A space with great design and excellent functionality!

• No nonsense mentality without compromising on comfort!

• Cost-conscious product choice with maximum durability

• Easy to maintain!

• Clever layout with a twinkle!

• Designed for people who will leave as friends!

What do you think, did we manage?
 

Dining like in 1001 Nights 2.0.
Working in the retail design world, on an international level, requires putting yourself in the customer's shoes. It was a great pleasure to develop this dining room in Kuwait, where the whole family can gather! Working with and for other cultures is truly a great gift for an interior designer!

The starting signal has been given, and the first part of our project for the comprehensive renovation of a residential facility for people with dementia is complete!

Feel free to take a look around the newly designed entrance area and the billiard room behind it.

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression!

As mentioned many times before, immersing oneself in other cultures and experiencing how they live, eat, and work is always an adventure.

Even in a large, international corporation, all these factors play a role in the design of an office.

These 1,500 square meters were redesigned according to the activity-based working method, increasing the number of meeting rooms, informal workspaces, focus work areas, and phone booths, not to mention a break room for relaxation.

We wish all employees every success with their projects in this
well-designed work environment!

This small but stylish break room at the Marriott Hotel in Sopot, Poland, received a complete makeover with minimal resources but a big impact.

From now on, employees can enjoy the beach vibes that characterize Sopot during their well-deserved breakfast and lunch breaks!

Designing workspaces for all kinds of businesses is one of the things that makes interior design so exciting!

When we had the opportunity to furnish RTI Blockchain's new office in Delft, The Netherlands, we also took inspiration from their vision:
Packaging management with a smile.

That's why we delivered a design that now supports "working with a smile" every day!

All the best in your new space, Team RTI!

The best reason to take a long break on social media is to start a new project that demands full focus!
After this entire, challenging Corana period, a project request suddenly lands on our desk in an area in which we have unfortunately not worked very often: the interior of a care facility.
It goes without saying that in all of our projects the focus is on the people who live and work in the rooms that we design.

But to design rooms that improve the living conditions for people with dementia and the nursing staff and make the space more livable, is a very special and incredibly inspiring task.
We are very much looking forward to implementing our designs!

Sometimes you have to take a deep breath when faced with the sheer scale of a project:

The client in Shanghai wanted a customer restaurant with almost 800 seats, various zones, lounges, a children's play area, an event kitchen, and a business lounge. A challenging remote planning process, but the result is simply fantastic! Thank you so much for this challenge!

Preparing for times after the pandemic, we created a charming, small holiday home in the middle of the mountains of Tyrol, in a prime location, both for a vacation in summer and for fans of winter sports.
It was important to the owners and operators to create a cozy but also functional "temporary home" for their guests and they assingned us with the interior design and implementation.
Designed for 4-6 people, our approach was to create a warm and modern atmosphere with some traditional links to the Austrian culture. We hope that the future guests will enjoy their stay at "My Chalet" as much as we enjoyed realizing the vision of the owners! 

For a new  property in the Netherlands we recived a request to visualize an ergonomic home office setting. The studio homes offer the space to work professionally from home or to start a nice business at home.
The project developer gave the first 17 buyer a voucher to funish their new work space.

The renderings served as base for a VR tour through the house!

After a project scope of more than one year we all were looking forward to  a "grand opening" of the new created office.

Now things are different and the opening needed to be done digitally for all employees.

As a designer, you know you did well when your client takes the effort to release a documentation booklet for his team, in order to take them back to the one year office remodeling journey! A nice surprise finding this in my mailbox! Thank you guys for this wonderful assignment and the trust in me and my work!

After a project scope of more than one year we all were looking forward to  a "grand opening" of the new created office.

Now things are different and the opening needed to be done digitally for all employees.

As a designer, you know you did well when your client takes the effort to release a documentation booklet for his team, in order to take them back to the one year office remodeling journey! A nice surprise finding this in my mailbox! Thank you guys for this wonderful assignment and the trust in me and my work!

Everyone is looking forward to return to the office, meet up with colleges and simply socialize at work.
Even planed before this virus hit the planet, this area is more than just a place people call canteen: It is the office plaza, designed for recreation but also for informal meetings, reading mails with a cup of coffee and...yes, picking up some gossip! Every office should have a place like this! How dose it look like in your office space? 

Last details added to finalize and hand over an amazing project: 1000 m2 activity based working office in Leiden, a one year journey, completely furnished with IKEA furniture and furnishings.

Boxes, boxes, boxes....the brand new office is ready to move in...all we need now are people in the office to unpack those boxes.
In the meantime the office project proceed with the remodeling of the next floor....to be continued!

Office rebuild behind the curtains: At a very, very quiet site we bring in the last details... in this case a small cooperation seating. It is a strange but somehow nice feeling to create a new work environment for people, who work from home for a very long time right now, and to give them a warm welcome and hopefully some nice surprises when the come back....in a brand new activity based working office!

Work in progress! Always exiting if the result of workshops, discussions, briefing, designing and planning becomes reality!
1000m2 activity based working office is taking shape! To be continued!....

Redo a locker room is not what comes to mind when thinking of exiting interiors. But we are proud to transform this locker room of a 4 star hotel in London into a happy place to start and end the workday for hard working people. Truly a sassy, savvy space!

New office project in progress. Two floors, 1000m2 in total, will be converted from a common open space office to an activity based working space! It is very gratifying to not only provide a design but also to guide the whole changing process with advise and workshops. More to come soon!

Our latest staff restaurant project was successfully implemented at a 4 star hotel in Budapest.

Staff and management are very happy and enjoying the time off now in an pleasant and relaxing surrounding. Thanks for the lovely photos! 

Creating an environment for people to experience a nice and relaxing holiday is a pleasure. Doing this for a client who really cares for it guests and want to invest in a surrounding which listens to the requirements, needs and wishes of people who want to enjoy the nicest time of the year is just great! 
In this chalet, in the middle of the beautiful Alps, people can stay in a modern interior with all facilities to make it a wonderful stay at Alpin Chalet Leutasch!In this chalet, in the middle of the beautiful Alps, people can stay in a modern interior with all facilities to make it a wonderful stay at Alpin Chalet Leutasch!

Changing an office space to a flex office, or better activity based working space, causes most of the time quite some tension for the employees. Therefore we offer workshops for the whole team to participate in the design and briefing process! This gives us designer valuable insights and helps the staff to own their new office from the very first design draft! 

We proudly present our latest project in Warsaw. The staff canteen, hallways and meeting room of a 5 star hotel got a complete make over. Now the employees enjoy same nice environment as their guest do! Well deserved! 

Most meeting rooms look pretty much the same, they are simply functional.

But what if you want an inspiring environment for the next team workshop?

A well known cinema chain in The Netherlands asked us to develop a interior concept for meeting rooms connected to film themes.

What a wonderful challenge!

What do you think, could this be THE location for your next meeting? 

May the force be with you! 

Most meeting rooms look pretty much the same, they are simply functional.

But what if you want an inspiring environment for the next team workshop?

A well known cinema chain in The Netherlands asked us to develop a interior concept for meeting rooms connected to film themes.

What a wonderful challenge!

What do you think, could this be THE location for your next meeting? 

May the force be with you! 

A five star hotel in Vienna gave their employees a new refurbished staff restaurant that reminds much more on the famous parks in Vienna than an ordinary canteen.

This is how a lunch break turns into a pick-nick! Enjoy!

It was an amazing challenge to develop three interior concepts in three different price levels for new build apartments for an real estate company in Hanoi / Vietnam, who wanted to furnish this apartments with furniture of a big, Swedish homefunishing retailer. 

Bringing cultures together is always a pleasure and an interesting journey.

We keep you posted!

Never underestimate the impact of an office design to people working hard the whole day. 
Even a small space can have a set-set up which supports big ideas!

This office and meeting space of just 24 square-meter became, with very little effort and ergonomically but stylish furniture, a fantastic work environment and a 3D company card. This all for a small budget... that's what we call an up-great! 

Earlier this year we reported about our real estate project in Kazakhstan. Now The Forbes published an article mentioning this project and even showed some pictures, We can't be more happy to see that the project is such a success! Please find the whole article here: https://forbes.kz/process/property/pochemu_ryinok_kommercheskoy_nedvijimosti_uje_ne_budet_prejnim

Probably you have had once breakfast on a plane but also once on a runway? The employees of a hotel at the Charles de Gaulle Airport/Paris will have this excitement from now on every day! The interior design links in form, color and decoration to the close buy airport... light, airy, modern and functional. We hope you guys will take off after every break! 

Yes, it is done! Two apartments, planned on distance, have been implemented in far, far away Kazakhstan. It is always a challenge to design places you never visited yourself... but is is unbelievably rewarding to receive finally pictures from a satisfied client! We like! 

Maximum result for a minimum budget: A nice, little business hotel in Bern / Switzerland challenged us with the task to give their rooms a modern and fresh look by keeping all key elements, such as bed, bathroom, wardrobe etc.. The result was not only very cost efficient, it leads also to very positive guest reviews! 

Two very different Londoner hotels have been calling for help with their staff restaurants. No problem, with lots of pleasure we gave both restaurants an "UP-Great", considering of course the style, history and location of both hotels. As different as they are, they have something in common: very happy employees! 

The best credit of your work are happy faces of your clients. It seems, our design for this staff restaurant of a 5 star hotel just next to the famous VW-factory made some people happy and will help them to enjoy their breaks even more. Enjoy! 

A little glimpse on our latest project in Kazakhstan: Four fully furnished apartments designed for the booming capital Astana! Two independent projects will offer wonderful apartments for very different target groups and with well designed layouts. Hopefully many people will be inspired to imagine their future home there. 

There is a constant growing need for small space living, also in Germany. We developed a furnishing concept for apartments with an average size of 25m2, suitable for single persons, students and temporary living. An historical building will be transformed into 34 small units, fully furnished and ready to move in. We hope that many people will find a new, pleasant home in there! 

Latest assingment brought us back to our roots of retail design. We did some design and styling work for a well-known furniture retailer in Zwolle, the Netherlands. Thank you for the assingment and a great teamwork! 

From the middle of Africa we received the wish of an funktional and modern office environment. A team of ambitious people running a plantage for avocados, lychees and macadamia nuts in Mozambique. Considering the circumstances of climate, tasks and of course the products produced, we created a office in an modular structure to serve their requirements but also to bring some colour and some fun into their work-life! All funiture are on the way to africa right now and we can't wait to see the first fotos of the final result!

They call it the "Underground" at Marriott International in Bethesta / Washington, a place to evaluate mock up rooms with guests, discuss with partners and experiment with new concepts. We had the chance to get a little inside of it...a great experience and honor!

A show stage for their robots, that's what Robo Valley, an instutute of the TU Delft,We wanted to create for the TUSExpo2016 in the Wo rld Trade Center in Den Haag. We supported them with a booth layout and during the build up... with pleasure and many red dots!

First assingment this year: we will take care of some public areas at the historical building of the formal artillery storage. This building is under reconstruction to host in the future BUCCANEER DELFT, an energy and offshore accelerator for young companies. Looking forward to bring history and future together!

Our strength is to translate human needs into clever interior concepts. This time it was all about robotics! With pleasure and lots of fun we supported the International Master Class Robotics, hosted by the Westcord Hotel in Delft, The Netherlands. Planning and styling of this event was a great experience. A nice example how a technical event can look like....dare to be different! 

Hotel business is a hard one. We created with a lots of pleasure a new staff restaurant for a Hotel in Cologne / Germany in order to create a place for the emplojees to meet, eat and relax. Many happy faces were a great reward!

Construction company Heijmans in Rosmalen has invented something new. A ready home for singles who want to live affortable  in the city where we see  a big shortag. The house that The Heijmans ONE is built up within 24 hours and is easy to also move on just two trucks. To learn more about the product, Heijmans did invite a person for a three month test living. We had the honor to furnish her temporary home!

Very nice article in a local newspaper concerning our office project "De Compagnie" in Rijswijk, Netherlands....great feeling that everyone enjoys our design!!

Interior concept for international student acommondations

Studying is much more than just learning. Especially if this means to move abroad. To accommodate international students we were ask to develop some apartment units which suit to the demands of this target group: Functional and cosy, colorful and with a twinkle. A home far away from family and friends. 

The local newspaper of the hometown of UPGREAT's founder Astrid Harding-Voss has published an article about her journey with UPGREAT. We are proud to share it with you! 

It is always exciting to be involved in ambitious projects; but to furnish about 3000 apartments in a new township in Bangalore, India is quite a challenge. This concept to residential living is unique in India and will create housing which is affordable by using innovative design and furnishing solutions.  
In order to understand the specific needs, wishes and dreams of the Indian people,we facilitated a focus group workshop in Bangalore. Many differences but many similarities are visible too:  Men dream about a separate room for media entertainment and women can never have enough shoe storage... Same, same but different!