Design

London Builds a Co-Working Space in a Tree

The free-range office trend reaches new heights of ridiculousness.
Park Hack et al.

There once was a time when doing office work outside the office meant heading to a coffee shop. But more and more people are choosing to co-work—going to a communal space populated by strangers that’s not your office, but very much like an office.

And now you can pretend to be an office drone in a tree. Architecture firm Tate Harmer (watch out, Tate!), artist Natalie Jeremijenko, and others have built an elevated co-working space in London with a floor impaled by a living trunk. Called TREExOFFICE, the little pod has all the amenities of a real corporate HQ, including electricity, Internet, and that one coworker who’s always interrupting your flow to goof off.