BDO Offices – Tel Aviv
Studio Naomi Shahar designed BDO Digital’s Tel Aviv department, overcoming architectural challenges with a circular flow layout, emphasizing the original concrete ceiling, and incorporating the ‘B’, ‘D’, & ‘O’ letters in the design.
BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which perform professional services under the name BDO.
Naomi Shahar Studio was commissioned to plan and design the BDO Digital department in Tel Aviv. This is the sixth project Naomi Shahar Studio is performing for BDO.
This 750 square meter floor is located in an Outdated building built during the 1980s. It features low ceilings and a central structural core that majorly impacted the design decisions during the brainstorming and thinking process. The solution Naomi Shahar Studio designers came up with was to form a circular flow office.
Naomi Shahar Studio placed many of the public functions adjacent to the core of the building, using it to mask the design limitation it presented. For example, meeting rooms, closed booths, the cafeteria as well as the reception desk were placed on the ‘inside” area of the floor (close to the core). The outer areas are dedicated to offices and a magical circular corridor divides between the inner and outer functioning areas.
The designers choose to expose the building’s original concrete ceiling as a way to maximize the height of the office. Other important design elements include graphic design using the ‘B’, ‘D’, & ‘O’ letters of the firm’s name as the “STARS” of the show. They were presented in a round fashion to match the rounded walls. That same design is used throughout the office, in the acoustic walls of the cafeteria etc.
Naomi Shahar Studio is Proud to have come up with a design solution that is both very convenient for its occupants and pleasing to the eye.
Design: Studio Naomi Shahar
Photography: Lior Teitler
