K Labs

Sixteen floors. Ten tenants, six answering the door.
Most of the building is scaffolding, which is honest. Press a button.

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The lift needs JavaScript, so here is the building directory instead. Sixteen floors, ten of them finished and six of them open — which is roughly the honest state of things. A locked floor is built but not published yet, so it has no link to give you.

01Click — a cabinet of pens
02The Cross-Market Report · locked — designer pay and mobility, tax and visas normalised
03Discontinued — a corridor of interfaces that died
04Fifty-Four — a Rubik's cube whose colours are six live media
05Knock-Up Stream — an endless runner that only goes up
06Mouthful · locked — a world map you eat your way across
07Devil Fruit · locked — a photo converter that runs entirely in your browser
12Junk Drawer — spill small blue objects on graph paper
13The Drawing Office — a section through this building, and what every floor is made of
15After Hours · locked — London in the rain, from the roof

Ground floor

Click

Six retractable pens. Each one clicks differently. That is the whole website.

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Floor 02 · open

The Cross-Market Report

Designer pay across the UK, Europe, the UAE and India — with tax and the right to work normalised, which no salary guide does.

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Floor 03 · open

Discontinued

A corridor hung with interface conventions that died. Every one of them was obvious at the time. Scroll to walk it.

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Floor 04 · open

Fifty-Four

A Rubik's cube whose six colours are six live media, and not one photograph. Scrambling mixes clocks with words; solving sorts all fifty-four back.

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Floor 05 · open

Knock-Up Stream

The Chrome dinosaur stood on its end and pointed at Skypiea. Ride the stream up, dodge the Sea Kings. An unofficial One Piece fan game.

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Floor 06 · open

Mouthful

A world map you eat your way across. Ten countries, thirty dishes, every one of them drawn rather than photographed. Drag it about.

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Floor 07 · open

Devil Fruit

Drop a photograph in and it comes back flat, hard-outlined and cel-shaded. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded anywhere.

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Floor 09

Bricked up

Nobody in the building remembers who did this, or why.

Floor 10

Fog

Just fog. It has been like this since the building opened.

Floor 11

A cat

It was here before the lift was installed. It has never left.

Floor 12 · open

Junk Drawer

Graph paper, and a page that spills small blue objects wherever you drag. There is no reason for it. That is the reason for it.

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Floor 14

Out of order

There is a bag of crisps caught on the spiral. It has been there since March.

Floor 15 · open · roof

After Hours

As far as the lift goes. London in the rain, flat and cold, from the roof of a building that is mostly scaffolding. Scroll sideways. Change the weather.

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Floor

Floors seen 00/15

Directory

Click

The Cross-Market Report

Discontinued

Fifty-Four

Knock-Up Stream

Mouthful

Devil Fruit

Bricked up

Fog

A cat

Junk Drawer

Out of order

After Hours