JLL’s Spire offices now ready

As with the two other floors of JLL’s Polish head office, the interior design of floors 26, 32 and 33 is inspired by scenes and landscapes characteristic of Poland. The felt finishing used in the open space to improve the acoustics features images from around Warsaw, such as Świętokrzyski Bridge, the Royal Castle and the Palace of Culture and Science. The new office also includes treadmills with desktops for work, gym ladders and Xboxes, while technological innovations have also been introduced such as cameras that can track speakers around the ‘Kieślowski’ videoconference room. Its glass walls are decorated with spools of film, movie posters are displayed on a column while a black curtain has been used to create a background.

“We have installed the latest Polycom teleconference system, which gives the room a film studio effect,” explains Danuta Barańska of Tétris, who designed and fitted out JLL’s offices. People entering the conference room are followed by electronic devices. When someone speaks the camera focuses on them and automatically displays a close-up of their faces. An innovative sound isolation system has also been installed that eliminates all sounds apart from human speech (e.g. the clinking of cups, doors opening). It is also possible to limit the range of the microphone to the table area to make it possible for guests to e.g. take private calls. The Bug, Wisła, Warta and Odra conference rooms on the 32nd floor feature wallpaper decorated with scenes of these rivers. The rooms are built from modules to allow them to be combined into one large room. There is also a moveable reception with a kind of desktop pulled out from the wall as a workstation for the concierge.

The leitmotif in all of JLL’s communal rooms is lace, which ornaments the Goose, Owl and Seal kitchens. Tétris has also created a fitness room, which includes treadmills with work desktops, foosball and gym ladders. One of the ‘creative rooms’ – less formal conference rooms – includes a game console and the technology that contrasts with a design inspired by the communist era in Poland. The wallpaper resembles the state TV test card from the time and there is an old-fashioned wall to wall carpet.

“Our idea was that the furniture should take you back to a bygone era, such as Józef Chierowski’s 366 armchair from 1962,” adds Danuta Barańska. JLL also occupies floors 29 and 30 of Warsaw Spire. The company moved into the building in 2016.