OnOffice – Issue 174, Spring 2026

OnOffice – Issue 174, Spring 2026
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Overview: onoffice is the UK’s leading publication for the commercial architecture and design community, featuring innovative workplace, hotel, education and civic projects from around the world. Informative, original, provocative and stylish, onoffice has been hugely popular in the UK since its launch in 2006. From cutting-edge office interior projects and architecture, through technology and products to industry issues, onoffice takes designers, architects, facilities managers, specifiers and end users on a journey through the cosmos of commercial space, delivering piercing insight, fearless criticism and the gamut of essential knowledge that makes perfect sense of the world of work. With more than a modicum of much needed wit, onoffice is the “don’t miss” for the workplace.

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TECHNICAL MANIFEST ID: 64E6E105B2
English
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2026
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