![]() The Airbnb company mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere - with our Dublin office, we embodied this philosophy - designing the space around team neighbourhoods with no assigned seating, and offering a choice of ways of working for our teams.īisnow: What are the growing trends you can see in how people work and how is this influencing real estate? ![]() In our Watermarque office, our reception is modelled on an Irish pub! In our Warehouse office, we tried to retain as many of the original features as possible - however, with a much older building and modern building codes, this isn’t always possible - we did retain the original Warehouse doors, which are now mounted in our office. Kelleher: Our Dublin hub is a campus - comprising two offices and an off-site kitchen. We had a large internal multidisciplinary team working on the project together with our Dublin design team and the landlord’s design team - it ‘takes a village’ as they say!īisnow: Tell us what is unique about your Dublin hub and why you did things that way. Kelleher: With our Dublin Warehouse office, we were involved very early given the extensive nature of the landlord renovation of the original space, and given that we were going to be the sole occupant, we did have a great opportunity to influence the design of the building. Is that how you always like to do things, and what did you look for in your development partners in this process? In 2017, the Paris, Berlin and Barcelona teams moved to new homes, and our Milan team will move to a new space in 2018.īisnow: With your Dublin hub, you were heavily involved at the design stage with the architect and developer. Kelleher: We have had a busy couple of years, with London and Dublin expanding in 2016. By 2016 it was opening its new Warehouse office and keeping the space at Watermarque.Īirbnb EMEA Real Estate and Facilities Manager Michelle Kelleher told Bisnow how it arrived at the concept and its future plans for Dublin and Europe.īisnow: What is Airbnb’s real estate plans for Dublin and Europe? Will you be expanding in the near future, and if so where? By January 2014 it had moved into 21K SF at the Watermarque building. It established its first presence in the city in 2013 with eight people working out of a house. It has over 36,500 SF and is comprised of 26 “neighbourhoods.” More than 500 people work across customer experience, human resources, finance, trust and safety and IT in the Dublin HQ.Īirbnb in Dublin epitomises just how rapidly tech firms can expand. The new office, dubbed simply The Warehouse, is Airbnb’s second-largest office worldwide. In 2016, it moved its headquarters to a disused Dublin warehouse in Grand Canal Dock. So it was no surprise that when it came to building and designing its European headquarters in Dublin it broke the mould again, working with the developer and architect from the outset of the process to create an office that is at the cutting edge of the way people and companies want to work today. Since 2009 it has been making waves in the residential rental market with its online marketplace.
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