IN THE CLUB
When you walk into The Village — a new co-working space on Jervois Road in Auckland — you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve walked into someone’s Herne Bay villa
“We wanted it to feel like a home,” says co-director Louise Graham. She leads me down the hallway past their bookable meeting room with its powder-blue architraves, and the bright-yellow walls of their ‘quiet zone’ — a shared working space. It certainly doesn’t look like any corporate office or co-working space I’ve ever been to.
“Offices can often feel cold and echoey,” she adds. “We didn’t want it to feel like that. We wanted it to feel warm and inviting.”
That it does. We walk into the kitchen, or ‘social zone’, which has a plate of ginger crunch on the counter, and her eight-month-old son Magnus is asleep in his buggy in the corner. The room itself has a couple of tables with some chairs where people can work in what seems
