A 19th-century building in New York's East Village has been given a new lease on life as the headquarters of female-focused co-working club The Wing.

The Wing opened its 22,000-square-foot (2,044-square-metre) headquarters in the brick structure, which was built on 137 2nd Ave 1854 by German architect William Schickel. The move makes it one of just a few companies that occupy a whole building in the city.
Designed in-house, the HQ is intended to riff of the building's original details, such as existing terracotta tile floors, decorative pillars, mouldings and skylights.

"Between the height of the ceilings, the tiles, the moulding, the skylights, and the general grandeur of the space, it all felt really Parisienne to me ? and we designed the space around those elements with that influence in mind," The Wing's senior designer Laetitia Gorra told Dezeen.
"This build-out was very much an exercise of working with what we had and building from that," she added.
The team refreshed the interiors with white-painted walls, and then added coral accents to reference the original terracotta details. Green furnishings provide additional contrast.

"I was excited to play with paint and contrasting colours, not only from one room to the next, but also within the rooms," Gorra said.
A foyer at the building's entrance features a navy front desk and a large light overhead, comprising a series of thin rods in a circular shape and small bulbs at the ends. The fi...