Colour Spectrum

A business club in prime city location that champions excellence and diversity through bold colour

Interior design and architecture firm Lepel & Lepel faced a compelling challenge: transform standard office space into a distinctive corporate destination. Building on their successful redesign of the Cologne location, they reimagined the Düsseldorf headquarters of this global enterprise at a prime address within the Kö-Bogen. The result masterfully merges the site's avant-garde palette with the company's identity. "Best of both worlds: spectrum" anchors the interior design philosophy.

The service company sought to project diversity, inclusion, and teamwork—grounded in Düsseldorf's elegant, sophisticated urban context. This ambition became a spatial narrative: the "Olympic Village"—a dynamic, multidisciplinary hub where teams converge in pursuit of excellence. The design captures the city's pulse: its avant-garde spirit, refined elegance, art, culture, and fashion. Gone are the dark corridors, isolated offices, and closed meeting rooms. In their place: vibrant open zones, transparent sightlines, and a dynamic corridor structure that invites visual discovery and spatial flow. At the heart lies "Spectrum"—a chromatic journey through violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red—each colour rhythmically defining zones like disciplines within the Olympic Village. The reception announces the concept: a luminous wall of backlit colour wallpaper reveals the full spectrum at a glance. From here, spectral hues radiate throughout: the welcome area greets visitors and staff in an inviting, sophisticated yellow-orange that perfectly frames the company logo. Meeting rooms pulse with red-orange, fuelling dialogue and connection, while the lounge blends red and violet into an energising sanctuary.

The collaboration zone glows in yellow-green—stimulating, creative tones that catalyse open exchange in this communal space. Deeper greens infuse the recreation lounge with freshness and calm, while blue tinged with violet supports focused work in the serene concentration zone. Flowing lines of light trace the ceiling, echoing the architecture's organic language while guiding movement and flow. Artfully rippled mirror surfaces create fluid transitions between colour zones and effortlessly inject the glamour factor essential to a fashion capital like Düsseldorf.

www.lepel-lepel.de

Photography:

HG Esch
www.hgesch.de

(Published in CUBE Düsseldorf 03|25)

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