Pudis Offices by Studio COSMO
Pudis Offices lands in Prague, Czech Republic, where Studio COSMO reworks a headquarters for a civil engineering firm with five decades of practice. Inside a nine-story Podbaba building, the team pares back to core materials and introduces a new kitchenette and a 26-seat meeting room to support daily rhythm and growth. The intervention respects the original structure while folding the company’s visual identity into light, surfaces, and furniture.
Morning light runs across oak parquet and a cool stainless skin. Overhead, a cleared concrete frame reads clean and strong, letting the floorplate breathe and the plan feel legible.
This workplace renovation sits inside a nine-story headquarters in Prague’s Podbaba district, where Studio COSMO leads a phased rework for a long-established civil engineering company. The brief centers on practical daily use—an upgraded kitchenette, a needed 26-seat meeting room—and on restoring the building’s original bones. Materials carry the story, with durable surfaces and custom elements tied to the firm’s identity.
Strip Back to Structure
Work begins by removing the noise: built-in partitions, suspended ceilings, baseboards, and surface cabling all come down. The concrete structural frame returns to view, allowing daylight to travel farther and giving the floors a measured rhythm. Oak parquet, long part of the building, is retained and refreshed, its warm grain balancing the cool gray of the concrete. The room reads clear and purposeful.
Kitchenette as Hub
With lunches delivered and most people eating at their desks, the oversized dining area no longer fit the routine. Studio COSMO scales it to a cozy kitchenette focused on warming meals and great coffee, turning it into a social hinge for quick breaks and informal chats. Stainless steel cladding gives durability and a crisp sheen, while a ceramic island anchors the center as a practical worksurface. It’s compact, robust, and easy to keep tidy.
Meeting Room Recast
Freed from the dining footprint, the plan makes way for a new 26-seat room that supports the growing team. Custom MDF paneling shapes the acoustics and carries a subtle pattern derived from the company logo, adding texture without distraction. The setting handles briefings and workshops with equal ease, aided by clear sightlines and a calm material register. It feels focused, not fussy.
Logo Into Light
The firm’s original crossroads mark—reworked by KNOW HOW solutions—becomes both graphic and guide. Studio COSMO translates that motif into custom luminaires built specifically for these rooms, turning wayfinding into an ambient layer of light. Lines meet and branch like junctions, a quiet nod to road and bridge engineering without turning the interior into signage. Custom furniture by Brick rounds out the set, tuned to the surfaces and scale.
Material Continuity
Stainless, ceramic, MDF, concrete, and oak create a tight palette with clear roles: tough where hands work, warm where people gather, and expressive only where it aids focus. The restraint keeps maintenance simple and the rooms legible under changing daylight, which plays off steel and softens across timber. Company colors and graphics land as measured accents, aligning brand and building without noise. Nothing feels spare; it feels direct.
Afternoon shadows lift the parquet’s texture while the custom fixtures draw gentle lines overhead. The renovation reads as a careful edit of a serviceable building, turning latent qualities into everyday utility. It’s a durable upgrade, grounded in structure and light.
Photography by Petr Moschner
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