Gallery

Every corner of the coworking space

32 photographs of the actual building on 13-D in Valencia Town. No renders, no stock, no borrowed lobbies. This is the floor you would be walking onto, on an ordinary working day and on the evenings that are anything but.

The WorkBench building on 13-D in Valencia Town, Lahore: a dark fronted building with the lit WorkBench sign above the glass entrance and cars parked in front.

01 / The space

Street door to open floor

Walk in off the street, past reception, up the stairs, and you are on the floor. This is the part people want to see before they believe it.

The glass street entrance to WorkBench in Valencia Town, Lahore, looking through the doors to the reception desk and the amber W on the charcoal fluted wall.
Reception at WorkBench: a concrete desk against a charcoal fluted wall with the amber W above it, a row of caged pendant lights, and a glass walled office to the left.
The W lounge at WorkBench, with the concrete reception counter, the amber W on the fluted wall, an orange and black disc artwork and a grey sofa with terracotta cushions.
A doorway inside WorkBench opening onto a warmly backlit oval mirror, with an access keypad beside the frame and a palm in the corner.
The staircase at WorkBench: concrete treads with a steel handrail, dark planter boxes mounted down the side wall and a green moss wall at the top.
A black steel tree sculpture in five panels mounted on a plain painted wall inside WorkBench.
The open coworking floor at WorkBench mid workday: members at long shared desks with monitors, black cone pendant lamps overhead and a red phone booth against the back wall.
A long row of empty shared desks at WorkBench with black task chairs and black privacy dividers, running the length of the open floor past glass partitions and a plant.
Four members working side by side at a long shared desk at WorkBench, laptops open and grey dividers between them.

02 / Meeting and focus

Rooms with a door that shuts

A meeting room, a conference room, and the quiet ends of the floor where people put their heads down. Every membership opens all of them.

The meeting room at WorkBench: a long light wood table and black mesh chairs facing a wall mounted screen on a terracotta panelled wall, with a core values graphic painted on the white wall to the left.
A member at WorkBench working on a laptop at a long desk, with two colleagues at the same run of desks behind her.
A member in a blue shirt drawing a diagram in red marker on a frosted glass wall at WorkBench while two colleagues watch from their seats.
The conference room at WorkBench, a long white table with ten black mesh chairs, a wall mounted screen on the terracotta wall and a caged pendant light overhead.

03 / Breaks

A whole floor for not working

The cafeteria has a floor to itself. Tea and coffee are unlimited and already in the price, and the game room has table tennis, foosball, a PlayStation and an Xbox.

The cafeteria floor at WorkBench: a foosball table in the foreground, members standing at the coffee machines on the left, dining tables under black pendant lamps and a yellow vending machine on the right.
The coffee corner at WorkBench, with a dense green plant wall, a coffee therapy sign in wire script, a live edge wooden bench and a chess set on a carved wooden table.
The games corner at WorkBench with two yellow snack vending machines, a black foosball table and a table tennis table behind, under a painted paddle logo on the wall.
The game room at WorkBench: a blue table tennis table on a tiled floor under a black ceiling, with a painted paddle logo and a bat rack on the wall.
A neon sign of coffee beans falling into a cup, lit amber and white above a coffee machine at WorkBench with buttons for espresso, cappuccino, latte, kadak tea and doodh patti.
Three glass plaques in navy presentation boxes on a wooden table at WorkBench, each engraved WorkBench Table Tennis Tournament 2025 with champion doubles and champion singles titles.

04 / Community

The community part, in public

The days that put the community part to the test: Independence Day, talks, award handovers, and one extremely committed mango party.

Members standing together in front of a green and white Independence Day backdrop at WorkBench, with Jashn e Azadi calligraphy, a Minar e Pakistan illustration and an arch of green and white balloons.
A member handing a green and white wrapped gift to a colleague in front of the Independence Day backdrop at WorkBench, under an arch of green and white balloons.
A group of women in pink and brightly coloured shalwar kameez posing together for a group photograph in the WorkBench lobby, under the amber W on the charcoal fluted wall.
Two men holding a framed plaque between them in the coffee corner at WorkBench, standing in front of the plant wall and the live edge wooden bench.
A speaker in a pink shalwar kameez standing beside the meeting room screen at WorkBench, mid sentence, with slides showing behind her.
A session in the WorkBench meeting room: a speaker presenting a slide with a large pink ribbon on it, women seated along both sides of the long table, pink balloons taped to the walls.
Women seated along one side of the long meeting room table at WorkBench listening to a talk, with clusters of pink balloons taped to the glass partition behind them.

The mango party

The plant wall went up in paper mangoes, trays of mango canapes came out, and people stopped to pose.

A group of members posing together at the WorkBench mango party, holding cardboard mango and mango drink props, in front of a green plant wall hung with paper mangoes and a Mango Party sign.
A Mango Party sign spelled out in orange paper mangoes on a green plant wall at WorkBench, with yellow and green paper mangoes pinned all around it.
Mango canapes laid out on wooden boards and white plates at WorkBench, photographed from above, with carved mango roses, sliced mango and a glass bowl of mango and cream.
The mango party table at WorkBench seen through hanging green and yellow streamers, with cardboard mango props on sticks and trays of mango canapes on the counter.
Three cream posters taped to a white wall at the WorkBench mango party reading Keep Calm and Eat Aam, Aam ke Aam Guthlion ke Daam, and Qatal e Aam, beside a plant wall hung with paper mangoes.

Come and see it

Ten minutes here beats 32 photographs

Photographs are useful right up to the point where you want to know whether the internet holds, whether the chair suits you and whether you like the people. Come and stand in it.