A huge translucent panel punctuated by circular openings fronts the latest branch of co-working space Second Home in east London, which includes a nursery and outdoor play area.

The shared office has been designed by Madrid-based studio Cano Lasso and takes note from the work of Frei Otto, a German architect renowned for creating tensile structures draped in see-through membranes.
Second Home's co-founder, Rohan Silva, hopes the unusual facade, which is made from fluorine-based plastic EFTE,  will act as a landmark to young creatives in the local area.

"Too many buildings have grey facades that deaden the landscape," he explained to Dezeen.
"We tried to create an external environment that will have people wondering in saying 'what is this place"'".
Second Home London Fields is the company's fourth co-working branch to open in London.
It joins a base in Spitalfields, which has an outdoor terrace dotted with pools and plants, another in Holland Park, which occupies the former studio of Richard Rogers, and a third in Clerkenwell that opened towards the end of 2018.

Behind the facade of the London Fields building are colourful interiors also designed by Cano Lasso. At ground level there is a cafe and seating area with tangerine-coloured flooring and polycarbonate walls, which will be open to the public throughout the day.
It leads through to a rear workroom with textured orange walls and ring-shaped "flying" tables that, using a pulley...