Black and white surfaces, indoor trees and a rooftop workspace all feature at the new head office for website building service Squarespace in New York (+ slideshow).
Squarespace wanted to house its four different offices in one place so took over 98,000 square feet (9,105 square metres) within a 1920s building in Lower Manhattan.

Formerly a printing press, the historic, 12-storey Maltz Building now houses the company's 322 employees on the top three floors, with interiors designed by New York firm A+I.
"Not only did we want to come together into a single space, but we also wanted to create more diverse spaces for working and collaborating," said Anthony Casalena, Squarespace founder and CEO.

His brief to the designers was to "create a space imbued with texture, richness and warmth".
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A+I's team spent three months with the tech company to evaluate needs, which they deduced were a wide variety of working environments ranging from formal to informal ? common at many offices for tech companies.

"The dominant modes of working ? solitary, focused work and highly collaborative, engaged work ? then inspired the yin-yang, black-white concept for the workspace," A+I co-founder Dag Folger told Dezeen.
Similar approaches have been taken at other tech company headquarters, including office spaces for Wix, Pinterest and Evernote.

The result at Squaresp...