4 Corporate Office Interior Design Concepts That Dial Up Color and Innovation

Discover these corporate office interior design spaces by Interior Design 2025 Best of Year Award winners, from a workplace inspired by nature to a transformed office clad in Corten steel.

How Award-Winning Corporate Office Interior Design Ideas are Rewriting the Rules

Inside A Corporate Office Interior Design In The Heart Of The UAE 

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Best of Year Award – Medium Corporate Office

The 2025 Best of Year Winner for Medium Corporate Office, Roar crafted a workplace that reflects both Boston Consulting Group’s unique character and its location within the United Arab Emirates. Distinctive color-coded zones throughout the 25,000-square-foot office in Dubai are imbued with the energy of its regional surroundings, especially natural areas. Inspired by mangroves, green built-ins defines one work area. Coral reefs informed the palette of a collaborative zone and café, including the warm pink and dusty mauve hues of seating and tiles. The spirit of the Arabian Gulf infuses the blue zone, its phone booths and focus rooms opening off a corridor adorned with circular canvases depicting rivers and wadi. Throughout, many furnishings are from large international firms, including Herman Miller and Vitra. Other touches nod to local cultural motifs, expressed primarily in art installations. This isn’t a cookie-cutter office; it’s a celebration of identity and purpose. —Athena Waligore

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PROJECT TEAM: IRENA ANDONOVA; PALLAVI DEAN

Partake In City Views At This Biophilic Workplace 

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Best of Year Award – Extra-large Corporate Office

For several years, and certainly since the pandemic heightened concerns about air quality, architects and designers have worked to open up the hermetically sealed skyscraper in Shenzhen, China, adding operable windows and access to outdoor spaces. The 2025 Best of Year Winner For Extra-Large Corporate Office, this 30-story, nearly 1.2 million-square-foot headquarters for WeBank by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Jiang & Associates Creative Design Co. further blurs the boundaries between indoors and out. Some floors open onto large double-height terraces planted with native species that filter pollutants. The rooftop is a parklike landscape that captures rainwater for irrigation while reducing stormwater runoff. Inside the building, staggered atria run vertically through several levels, providing gathering spaces for workers while allowing daylight to circulate. The atria in this corporate office interior design have been specially engineered to create a pathway for air to flow through the interior: Outdoor air is pulled in at the ground level, funneled through the atria, and then vented out at the top, creating frequent air changes. Natural materials—like the wooden ceilings—provide biophilic benefits, further supporting workers’ health. —Jane Sarney

PROJECT TEAM: SCOTT DUNCAN: XUAN FU; JOYCE LAM; YUE ZHU; SEAN DOYLE; MARIA STURCHIO; HINS CHENG (SOM)

A Curvilinear Corporate Office Interior Design With Flair

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Best of Year Award – Medium Tech Office

This tech enterprise may not be a household name, but some of its clients certainly are. The vertically integrated company in Hangzhou, China,—encompassing R&D, production, and sales—creates electrification solutions for furniture manufacturers including Haworth, Herman Miller, and Steelcase. The 2025 Best of Year Winner for Medium Tech Office, Joye’s headquarters by LYCS Architecture supports those endeavors with a setting both pragmatic and transcendent, courtesy of a renovation that increased connectivity between floors, departments, and people. On the lower levels, a two-story atrium provides a multifunctional anchor that services a welcoming lounge, glass meeting rooms, an exhibition space with product showroom, a production facility, and corridor/galleries that display a brand timeline and company honors. On floors nine and 10, a full spectrum of workspaces to suit all styles are linked via a second atrium and profit from daylight flooding in through new skylights. Unifying the entire 53,800 square feet are sculptural staircases and cloud-inspired curvilinear elements that blur distinctions between floor, walls, and ceiling—an apt metaphor for Joye’s inclusive approach. —Edie Cohen

PROJECT TEAM: RUAN HAO; HE YULOU; LAI ZHENYU; XIE JIE; XU SHENG; ZHOU MIAO; ZHANG YANG; YU JIAQI; WANG DANLU.

Explore A Mixed-Use Space With An Industrial Past

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Best of Year Award – Office Transformation

A U-shaped compound comprising six 40-year-old buildings of varying height and appearance—formerly workspaces, warehouses, and dormitories for a chemical research institute—has been unified into The Yard, a continuous ensemble encircling a stone-paved courtyard with a rugged rock garden at its center. Incorporating office, retail, and hospitality spaces along with a library, cinema, and theater, the 50,000-square-foot, mixed-use redevelopment, and the 2025 Best of Year Winner for Office Transformation, by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is now predominantly clad in Corten steel—an homage to the site’s industrial past—though several original stucco facades remain. Interiors feature similar juxtapositions, with fresh plaster finishes contrasted against partially exposed brickwork and additional raw structural elements. Located in the heart of Dalian, China, surrounded by university campuses and software parks, the enclosed corporate office interior design echoes the idea of a traditional Chinese garden, a hidden spot offering refuge from the urban bustle. —Peter Webster

PROJECT TEAM: LYNDON NERI; ROSSANA HU; IVY FENG; WENBO DA; CHRISTINE CHANG; SIYU CHEN; SUSANA SANGLAS; FEITENG FENG; HAIOU XIN; ZIYANG LIN; LYUQITIAO WANG; GREG WU.