GeekWire has an interesting article about developer workplaces. Joel Spolsky recommends private offices or home office for developers to concentrate over fun places with ping-pong and lounges.

Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/amp/

I prefer silence too.