Inside Duolingo’s stunning new NYC office, where employees get to choose where and how they work

Too often, offices are designed as one size fits all. Rapt Studio’s design for Duolingo’s new downtown New York City office takes a different approach.

In many ways, language-learning app Duolingo’s new office in New York City doesn’t look like an office at all. Instead of a lobby, there’s a white-wall art gallery exhibiting 6-foot-tall digital paintings of the app’s characters (each language has its own avatar) and a sculpture of Duo, its owl mascot, elevated on a plinth in the center of the room.