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Deutsche Telekom — architectural project by Parallel Group

Commercial

Deutsche Telekom

Skopje, North Macedonia

Quiet Floors

Breakout rooms are lined in felt and set away from the desks, so a call never happens in the middle of somebody's afternoon. It is a small move on the drawings and a large one in use, which is the trade the whole project is built on.

Deutsche Telekom — view 1

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Exterior Perspective

Deutsche Telekom — full-width view 1
Deutsche Telekom — full-width view 2
Deutsche Telekom — detail view 1

Seen from here the argument is plain: an office where the acoustic strategy came before the plan, not after it, with nothing between the idea and the way the building is put together.

Deutsche Telekom — full-width view 3
Deutsche Telekom — full-width view 4

Closer in, breakout rooms are lined in felt and set away from the desks, so a call never happens in the middle of somebody's afternoon. Every part of it was resolved on paper first — it is not the kind of decision that can be made on site.

Deutsche Telekom — detail view 2
Deutsche Telekom — full-width view 5
Deutsche Telekom — closing view

“We set out to make an office where the acoustic strategy came before the plan, not after it, and we resisted every chance to make it more than that.”

- Parallel Group Architects

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