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Serviced Office Company’s Imperial Court in Manchester has won officebroker.com’s final Business Centre of the Month Award in 2011

Imperial Court is an impressive business centre situated in a contemporary glass-fronted building on Exchange Quay.
The property was launched 2 years ago at the hands of the Serviced Office Company, who carried out a £2.5m refurbishment. Since then, the team has worked extremely hard to put the centre on the map and occupancy has increased [...]

Office Gadget of the month

At The Serviced Office Company we love gadgets and are always on the look-out for ones that will brighten up your day in the office. Here’s something to keep you warm when the temperature outside plummets!
Mini Hottie Handwarmers
Keeping your hands warm in the cold isn’t always the easiest of tasks. Sure you could wear gloves, [...]

Office of the month: ghd Headquarters, Leeds

 With the festive season upon us, we thought we’d look at one of the most successful women’s hair styling brands.
This ghd headquarters in Leeds is the corporate office / headquarters for the global hair beauty brand with 15,600 sq ft area designed by Carey Jones Architects. The high specification project at Bridgewater Place in Leeds [...]

Office location of the month: Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

This place sounds like the most tranquil of places to work, especially if you like tropical heat and being close to nature! Lady Elliot Island is one of only three island resorts on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the only resort with direct flight access to the island airstrip. The island is located [...]

Office Gadget of the month

At The Serviced Office Company we love gadgets and are always on the look-out for ones that will brighten up your day in the office. Here’s something to get you excited about Christmas!

Ho ho grow
Grow your own Christmas veg at your desk! We love Christmas and everything about it… including the vegetables. Christmas dinner can [...]

Office of the month: Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), located in the Presidio, San Francisco

Following on from our last location of the month, the Skywalker Ranch, Mr Lucas has one other gem of a work place to his name. The Letterman Digital Arts Center, or LDAC, is the combined home of Industrial Light & Magic, LucasArts and Lucasfilm’s marketing, online and licensing units.Â
Once a military hospital in the Presidio [...]

Office location of the month: WingNut Films, Wellington, New Zealand

With the battle for Middle Earth nearly upon us again (The Hobbit movie is in production for release next year), we thought it appropriate to check out Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s office locale.
Jackson’s production company, WingNut Films, is based in Wellington, New Zealand, on the doorstep of some of the most extraordinary [...]

Office Gadget of the month

At The Serviced Office Company we love gadgets and are always on the look-out for ones that will brighten up your day in the office. Here’s something for all you Dr Who fans out there!

Dr Who desktop Dalek
Fans of the Doctor Who series will definitely be pleased to have all things Doctor Who around them, [...]

Office of the month: The McLaren Technology Centre, Surrey

 The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group, located on a 500,000 m² site in Woking. Â
The large, roughly semi-circular, glass-walled building was short-listed for the 2005 Stirling Prize. About 1,000 people work at the sleek McLaren Technology Centre; it functions as an office and factory for the Formula One racing-car company. It [...]

Office location of the month: Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, California

Skywalker Ranch is a 4,000 acre working ranch that is the workplace of film director and producer George Lucas. It also houses his headquarters for Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound.  Access to the main house is strictly prohibited unless permission is gained from Mr Lucas himself and no one apart from him and fellow director Steven [...]