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Upsized, stylish and going niche: Co-working spaces bloom in Singapore

With its lavish interior designs and custom-made furnishings - including Italian hand-dyed rugs and handmade lamps sourced from New Zealand - The Great Room could be mistaken for the lobby of a brand new boutique hotel, instead of a co-working space. And that is what the founders set out to achieve. “This luxurious design concept came from observing how people like to meet in hotel lobbies....

Young tech professionals co-living in Singapore: What’s the draw?

“You live in your office? Why?” This is the typical response 26 year-old Lim Weiyuan gets when he tells people where his home is. Mr Lim, who is a co-founder at four year-old startup Reactor, has been living and working out of a condominium unit in East Coast with two colleagues for the last six months. A fourth member, Alex Foo, is due to move in permanently in June, while a fifth member, Puah Jing...

CapitaLand latest to enter co-working space arena

THE concept of co-working space is gaining traction with office landlords here, with CapitaLand being the latest to introduce this in its headquarters building. CapitaLand is partnering co-working space operator Collective Works under a 50-50 joint venture to turn the entire 12th floor at Capital Tower into co-working space. Spanning some 22,000 square feet, this can potentially house up to 250...

Co-working space seen as boon for office landlords and tenants

Co-working spaces, a concept which made its way here six years ago, can be a hedge for office landlords against a wave of new office completions. Rather than engage in an intense price war on rental incentives and subsidies, developers can take a dip in this "blue ocean" to gain a competitive advantage over their peers, Cushman & Wakefield says in a new report. One way is to carve out undesirable or...

Singapore’s first family-friendly co-working space opens

Singapore's first co-working space equipped with child-minding facilities officially opened on Wednesday (Feb 17). Trehaus, which is located on Orchard Road, aims to give working parents a chance to meet like-minded people and grow their business network, while staying close to their children. Here, parents conduct their business at the Workspace and have the option of dropping their kids off at the...

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