Nomba, Ikeja

A payments company's Ikeja office: black ceilings carrying the services, yellow acoustic rafts over the desk runs, and the company's own words set straight onto the walls.

The floor had to do three things at once — hold a growing team at desks, give them rooms that can take a call or a client, and carry the brand without a logo on every surface.

The ceiling does most of the work. Painted out black so the services disappear, it is marked instead by perforated yellow rafts that sit over the desk runs and the meeting bays, each one carrying its own track lighting. Below them the desking is white on black steel, paired with black task chairs, and glazed partitions keep daylight moving from the windows through to the middle of the plan.

In the main boardroom the company's mark is cut into the ceiling and lit from behind. Elsewhere the writing is literal: the values across the meeting room wall, and the phrases the team says to each other framed along the desks.