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Yoox Net-a-Porter Group Office in White City Place

Work Environment Interior Development, London, UK – design by Grimshaw Architects

26 Oct 2016

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group Office

Design: Grimshaw, Architects

Location: White City Place, London, UK

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group Office strengthens commitment to London with cutting-edge Tech Hub
Best-in-class facilities designed to accommodate growth, maximizing innovation and collaboration across the teams.

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group S.p.A (MTA: YNAP) (“YNAP”) is opening its new Technology Hub at White City Place in West London, unifying its UK technology teams in one location.

YNAP has selected Grimshaw, the award-winning British architecture firm, to design a stylish forward-thinking work environment that reflects the Group’s unique position at the intersection of fashion and technology. The Tech Hub will feature an innovative interior design with up to a quarter of the surface dedicated to adaptive space. The flexible features match the evolving needs of the business with a focus on creative and collaborative ways of working, supporting seamless operations with the Bologna-based tech team and other parts of the global business.

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group’s Five Year plan is built on a foundation of mobile and has been developed to outpace the industry through innovation. The new Tech Hub will accommodate for the planned 20% increase in YNAP’s global technology team, made up of 1000 employees equally spread across the UK and Italy. The Hub will nurture the mobile-centric culture, allowing engineers to create best-in-class technology solutions, and accelerate the Group’s R&D and release of the next wave of developments including yet-to-be-released technological breakthroughs.

“Yoox Net-a-Porter Group grows, it is exciting to move into a new home for all of YNAP’s UK technologists that will inspire and facilitate creativity and innovation, enabling us to build even better retail and content experiences for our customers.”
– commented Alex Alexander, Chief Information Officer at Yoox Net-a-Porter Group

“We are thrilled to be working on this new dynamic and flexible fit-out for Yoox Net-a-Porter Group. We feel a terrific empathy with them and believe their attitude to adaptability and change exactly matches our own.”
– commented Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Chairman and founder of Grimshaw

“I am delighted that there will be yet more new tech jobs coming to the capital. This highlights once again that London is open for business, new investment and global talent.”
– commented Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor of London for Business and Enterprise

“We are delighted to welcome Yoox Net-a-Porter Group to White City Place, which is fast becoming the key creative hub in West London and the commercial heart of White City. At White City Place we are networked for creative thought and provide the high speed IT connectivity, tech infrastructure and social amenity that businesses like YNAP demand.”
– commented David Camp, Chief Executive of Stanhope Plc, developers of White City Place

“Mitsui Fudosan is committed to the W12 area and to attracting tenants like Yoox Net-a-Porter Group to White City Place which, in addition to the redevelopment of the adjacent Television Centre site, together form the core of the regeneration of White City.”
– commented Eiichiro Onozawa, Managing Director of Mitsui Fudosan UK, investors in White City Place

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group Office – Building Information

Location: The Media Works at White City Place
Original surface: 70,000 square feet
Total capacity: 650 staff
Timetable: technology teams will move into the new space by March 2017

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