Ogilvy & Mather, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Winner: M Moser Associates Ltd.
Award: Merit Award for Interior Design

Over the years, the Ogilvy Malaysia Group’s Menara Millennium office had expanded in piecemeal fashion, resulting in a scatter of workspaces on four widely spaced floors. The company’s recent acquisition of a large 10th floor space offered the opportunity to embrace all staff within two sequential storeys and create an environment more in keeping with their culture of creative collaboration.

In plan the volume resembles a ragged crescent, which presented a challenge in terms of designing a natural ‘flow’. The response was a fluid, open-plan scheme with stimulating contrasts of material, texture, colour and form. The use of red subtly brings a visual coherence to the design. Meanwhile, strategically placed ceiling cut-outs and tree structures conduct the eye upwards, helping to neutralise the sense of confinement induced by the irregular floor plate.

The entranceway opens to a versatile concrete-floored common area whose focal point is a circular bar, radiating from which is series of comfortable lounge- and cafe-type settings. Other notable features include timber-lined ‘Japanese Box’, a formal meeting room containing a circular table and tree structure, and an ‘Interactive Wall’ with disappearing table and stools.

An expanse of polished white floor cues a transition between the overtly collaborative common area and the carpeted office space. From here, Ogilvy Action, Ogilvy Public Relations, and Redworks team areas are established consecutively along the arc of the ‘crescent’. Though each area includes distinct features suitable to its team’s purpose, the open plan ensures that people and ideas flow unimpeded between them.

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