Not everyone loves the open-office trend, but Shopify's new Toronto office may convince some doubters.
The online commerce company, which is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, opened its Toronto office -- a 100-year-old warehouse -- in May. The office has been a huge renovation project, which is why Shopify is only showing it off now. The company contracted M-S-D-S Studio, a Toronto design firm, to reflect Shopify's "core values of transparency and the open exchange of information," according to the design agency.
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The office includes 90 workstations, a boardroom, three large meeting rooms, six small meeting rooms, two phone booths, a cafeteria, a kitchen/cafe, a gallery, games room, break-out and informal workspaces, plus a reception area and retail shop. Check out photos, below:
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Shopify-1A.jpg" caption=""The front block of conference and meeting rooms are conceived as a market street with store front signage," according to design firm M-S-D-S. "The louver walls running the length of the main corridors in the front office are broken up and patterned to symbolize the vitality of the marketplace."" credit="Paula Wilson" alt="Shopify-1A"]
[img src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Shopify-4C.jpg" caption=" The raised cafeteria "converts easily into stepped seating around a presentation area and retractable projection screen," M-S-D-S said." credit="Paula Wilson" alt="Shopify-4C"]
