What do these standout workplace projects all share?
- Rabobank’s workplace at Sixty London Wall winning Best Fit Out of Workplace at the BCO Awards. Designed by IDSR.
- Greystar’s London HQ taking home honours at the 2025 SBID International Design. Awards. Designed by Morgan Lovell
- Koba being named Best New Regional Flex Space at the Flex and The City Awards.
- Travers Smith and Trainline's offices at Stonecutter winning Best Commercial Workplace at the BCO Awards. Designed by TP Bennett
- Westpac being shortlisted at the FX Design Awards 2025. Developed by Overbury.
The answer?
Borg & Overström T3 taps!
Coincidence? We’re not convinced.
Across the workplace sector, the projects attracting industry recognition are the ones getting the details right. Sustainability, hospitality, wellness, flexibility, experience, and increasingly, the everyday moments people actually remember. The humble hydration point has quietly become part of that story.
Rabobank, Sixty London Wall: Sustainability Meets Sophistication
Rabobank’s award-winning fit out at Sixty London Wall was praised by BCO judges for its “calm, refined design” and strong focus on sustainability and wellbeing. The project targeted both BREEAM Outstanding and WELL Platinum certifications, while incorporating extensive material reuse and highly collaborative social spaces.
Delivered with a sustainability-first mindset, the office reflects a wider shift in workplace design: fewer gimmicks, more meaningful experiences. The communal areas were designed to encourage interaction and support hybrid working, exactly the kind of environment where beautifully integrated tap systems become part of the architecture, not just an afterthought.
The result? A workplace that feels hospitality-led, highly considered, and unmistakably premium.
Photography: Office Curator
Greystar: An International Award Winner Built Around Experience
Greystar’s European headquarters in London was named an SBID Awards finalist before ultimately helping Morgan Lovell secure the Overall Winner title at the 2025 SBID International Design Awards.
The project combines the character of The Gilbert building with influences from Greystar’s Charleston headquarters, creating a workspace designed to feel both globally connected and locally rooted. A feature staircase, crystal chandelier, breakout spaces, tea points and acoustic-focused open-plan areas all contribute to a workplace experience centred on comfort and community.
This is the new benchmark for office design: spaces that blur the line between workplace and hospitality. And in those spaces, integrated hydration isn’t hidden away in a back-of-house kitchen anymore, it becomes part of the aesthetic language of the office itself.
Photography: Borg & Overström
Koba: Flex Space Grows Up
Flex workspace has evolved dramatically in recent years. The best operators are no longer competing on desks and Wi-Fi, they’re competing on atmosphere, amenity and member experience.
Koba’s recognition as Best New Regional Flex Space at the Flex and The City Awards reflects exactly that shift. Premium shared environments now demand the same level of finish and detail expected in boutique hotels and members’ clubs.
That includes the touchpoints people use every single day: coffee, kitchens, collaboration zones… and water.
The most successful flex brands understand that high-quality amenities signal quality everywhere else.
Photography: Koba
Travers Smith: The Workplace as Employee Experience
Travers Smith’s BCO success reinforces a wider trend in legal workplace design. Today’s top-performing firms are investing heavily in environments that support wellbeing, collaboration and culture retention.
The legal sector has become increasingly competitive in attracting talent, and workplace experience now plays a huge role. Online discussions around Travers Smith regularly highlight the firm’s culture and employee-focused environment.
Award-winning workplaces succeed because they think holistically. The best projects don’t just look impressive in photographs, they improve how people feel throughout the day.
That’s where details matter.
A thoughtfully designed hydration point may seem small, but employees interact with it constantly. The best designers understand that repeated daily experiences shape how people perceive a workplace overall.
Westpac and the Rise of Hospitality-Led Offices
The FX Design Awards continue to spotlight projects pushing workplace design forward through innovation, flexibility and user experience.
Increasingly, award judges are recognising spaces that feel human, adaptable and socially driven rather than purely corporate. Whether it’s a global bank, law firm, flex operator or investment company, the direction of travel is clear:
Modern workplaces are being designed less like offices and more like destinations.
And destinations care about hospitality.
Photography: Hufton + Crow
Why Taps Suddenly Matter
There’s a reason integrated tap systems are appearing across so many award-winning projects.
Designers and occupiers are looking for solutions that deliver:
- Cleaner aesthetics
- Reduced plastic waste
- Improved employee wellbeing
- Hospitality-style experiences
- Better use of communal space
- Sustainability credentials without compromising design
The T3 tap sits directly at the intersection of all of those priorities.
It’s not simply a utility product anymore. In premium workplace environments, hydration has become part of the architectural and cultural experience of the office.
The Bigger Picture
Award-winning workplaces are rarely about one dramatic feature. They succeed because every element works together consistently.
Lighting. Acoustics. Furniture. Materials. Amenities. Flow. Wellness. Hospitality.
And yes, even the taps.
So when projects as varied as Rabobank, Greystar, Koba, Travers Smith and Westpac all specify the same hydration solution, it probably says something important about where workplace design is heading.
The era of “just good enough” office amenities is over.
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