Parisian architect Estelle Vincent added the wooden structures to the Champs Elysees headquarters of marketing and data consultation firm Ekimetrics. "The challenge of the project was to find a way in this heterogeneous 1,000-square-metre space to carry an image that is both consistent and corresponding to the identity of Ekimetrics – mathematical in its expertise in ma...
The Dutch design studio was invited to create the artist's residence – called Room on the Roof – inside a small tower on the roof of De Bijenkorf, for a new program being launched by the department store in partnership with the Rijksmuseum on 27 January. A series of artists, writers, musicians, architects and designers will occupy the space, using it as a base to work...
Dutch architect Arnoud Olie, who is the founder of Meppel-based studio B+O Architectuur en Interieur B.V, designed the Office Building in the city of Zwartsluis for industrial parts manufacturer ForTop Zwartsluis. The brick and concrete building, which features a distinctive roof profile, also functions as a warehouse space and distribution centre. "The building has ma...
Haworth Tompkins – which was awarded the UK's most important architecture prize for its redesign of the Liverpool Everyman theatre – was approached by the Donmar Warehouse to create a new facility for rehearsals, education and admin.The not-for-profit contemporary theatre company had acquired a former warehouse on Dryden Street, close to its original theatre in Covent Ga...
Named the Red Mirror building, the three-storey office block was designed by Wise Architecture for the Gangnam district of Seoul. Slender bands of mirror, glass, steel and translucent red polycarbonate plastic form a grid enclosure for the two glazed levels visible above ground and a balustrade for a roof terrace. These strips are arranged in alternating horizontal and...
The headquarters for steel fabrication firm Lootens Line is located by a canal on the outskirts of the city, and was designed to accommodate offices, meeting rooms and a showroom. The new structure adjoins existing warehouses that CAAN Architects renovated and extended to house the client's own manufacturing machinery. A small office between the warehouses and a road t...
Located close to a motorway just outside the town of Ardooie, the headquarters for Rob Systems was designed by Bruges firm Govaert & Vanhoutte to house a showroom, offices and a production hall. The choice of cladding materials for the various spaces was determined by their different functions. The manufacturing area is completely closed off behind walls of concrete or...
Hechingen Studio is a crystal-shaped shipping container office that uses multiple glazed end walls to funnel natural light into the interior. The floor-to-ceiling glass also frames views of the surrounding landscape. An advertising agency commissioned Whitaker to develop the Hechingen Studio design as a low-cost cargotecture workspace near the rural German town of Hechi...
Sustainability is a major focus of the building design, which includes solar panels, water recycling, and green roofs. Gdańsk’s new Central Business District Development will be located along the city’s main axis roads and rail routes and in close proximity to the sea and university campus. The proposed office building makes the most of the surrounding urban density w...
The children had gotten older outgrown the lawn and the parents wanted a backyard office and a tranquil zen location for the couple's plants, so they decided to overhaul the backyard structure which had once been the shed, and turn it into a lush garden art studio, which is ticking all the boxes on our home workspace wishlist! Filled with some of the owners' favorite tre...
The building, designed by Tabanlioglu Architects, tries to redefine the typology of office architecture and give it a warmer home-like feeling. It was awarded the Best Office & Business Development 2015 award at MIPIM International Property Fair in Cannes, France. The five-story building was built for a pharmaceutical company whose owners, an elderly couple, wanted t...
Rzero intervention for this Mexican historic building responds to the requirements of three different clients, flexible spaces and a wide visual range of all the area, which wants to give each client a feeling of appropriation of space giving a special importance to the main entrance plaza. The idea behind the project – create without constructing – rules over any forma...
GoodHabitz, an online education hub in Eindhoven, Netherlands, hired Marcel van Heeswijk to design the interior of their new office space. Since the company’s mandate is the transfer of knowledge, van Heeswijk created a pair of stages equipped with workstations, where clients can focus. These stations have sound-dampening partitions, which allow for greater focus and con...
In this project of their own design studio in Shanghai, Lukstudio found a moment of encounter with nature, so rare in a urban context, in a forgotten courtyard. It is an old tree, the chimonanthus tree, known also as “wintersweet”. The architects were immediately charmed and so naturally, their design efforts became focused on restoring the dignity of this abandoned tre...
Built entirely from super-versatile cardboard, the Amsterdam office is a large volume office space inside a white box apartment. Made using van Bleiswijk’s "no glue, no screw" technique, the concept illustrates the agency’s philosophy to perfection: “Nothing is about the power of ideas, how a single idea can transform nothing into something. Using a cheap throw-away mat...
However the newly minted net-zero Glumac Shanghai office could change that mentality in a big way. Developed by Gensler in collaboration with Shimizu, GIGA, and Glumac over the course of a year, the Shanghai office boasts a stunning array of high-tech sustainable features and is China's first LEED v4 Platinum certified building. It's also designed to become the first bui...
The Switzerland-based healthcare company Octapharma debuted its sweet new Nordic headquarters in the Western Kungsholmen district of Stockholm. The company has been spilling out of its old Stockholm premises, prompting the purchase of the Great Brewery building next door, which Stockholm architecture firm Joliark repurposed into a gorgeous glass-walled company office. T...
From the largest living wall in North America to high rises wrapped in vertical gardens, we have seen quite a few impressive green walls. But LTL Architects has built an 84-foot-long green wall in a New York City office that might just be our favorite. Located in the offices of OpenPlans, LTL’s masterpiece is a near-exact replica of Central Park, complete with ponds, law...
The games developer King (creator of Candy Crush Saga) contacted Adolfsson & Partners to develop their new office concept in central Stockholm, in a building of the first half of the twentieth century planned by architect Gustaf Clason. With an ambition to bring King’s world of games and characters to life, A&P created a colourful and energy-filled office featuring bo...
Located on the western edge of Munich, near the Friedenheimer bridge, and adjacent to the light-rail lines that string throughout the city’s center, Am Hirschgarten is a campus-like cluster of four buildings, each of which entails a tower, which rises from the base of every building’s plinth. The project’s urban planning requirements mandated economical, sustainable, ...
Logical reaction to the surroundings, to the economic context (crisis) and social context (peripheral neighborhood in a ravine); to the climate (over-‐exposed latitude to UV rays); to the requirements of the developer: construction completion from august to december, in-‐fill of an urban block in a plot of 43,20x13 meters, physical connection to levels of the existing ...
An annex glass box had been added to second floor of the existing building allowing for the exterior brick façade to be experienced as an interior space. “We looked at the present configuration of the space and decided to keep it uninterrupted while inserting our office program” says Spark’s Beijing director Jan Felix Clostermann. The space is loosely zoned into ...
Reykjavik is the capital and largest city in Iceland. Located in the south west of the country and with a latitude of 64°8’ N, it is the world’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state – little wonder then, that extreme weather conditions are the norm and equally little wonder that something out of the o rdinary was required for an impressive new entrance to the Arion ...
The project will be the agent’s head office building, using modern design and new building techniques that efficiently support the communication net between the different departments within the building, so as to allow the optimum use of the whole project. Basement level for 14 cars parking Ground floor of 280 m2 office space + Reception First floor of 375 m2 off...
The ambition of TNT Real Estate is high. Mr. Flip Verwaaijen, Director of TNT Real Estate, has frequently explained that the organization is less, but good, durable square meters will. The newly built offices are characterized by two aspects, very energy efficient and CO2 emission-free. It is the ambition of TNT to the first mail and express delivery company in the w...
The main construction consists of 2 separate blocks with 7 and 9 floors, respective to the site topography. Besides the office and residential floors, the anchor of the building is Pegasus Airlines. Above the Pegasus’ office, which has a direct entrance at the street level, there are office floors of the ESAS. The uppermost floors of the rear building are designed as res...
The project aims to give identity and legibility to the whole building complex, currently characterized by different elements. The choice to collect the entrances into a new single main hall redefines both spatial hierarchies and distribution system. Pedestrian paths and driveway will be clearly separated. A new covered walkway system will connect the main hall, the offi...
The Isozaki Tower, nicknamed il Dritto (The Straight), was designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and by the Italian architect Andrea Maffei. With its 208 m, the tower will be one of the tallest buildings in Italy and the tallest to the roof. With 50 floors of which 46 are expected to use as office space, the tower will be able to accommodate up to 3,800 people. Th...
The main building (building A, 22 storeys) is sited along Via Gioia, extending the existing urban street front. The second building, which is not as tall (building B, 10 storeys), curves to open up its atrium towards the south onto a large stone square, framed by a garden and planted car park. The reconfigured public space and square create an environment which truly ce...
The Piedmont Region Skyscraper is an administrative building located in Turin, the construction of which began on 30 November 2011. It will be designed to accommodate the council, the Council and the offices of the regional administration of Piedmont. Designed by Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas and presented to the Piedmont Regional Council during a public he...
In 2012, advertising agency Lowe Campbell Ewald examined several options for relocating their corporate headquarters before falling in love with the “bones” of the former J.L. Hudson Co. warehouse connected to Ford Field in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The J.L. Hudson Co. warehouse building dates back to the 1920s. It features a combination of multiple structural syste...
Publicis Groupe has worked in Russia since 1990 and is represented by media groups Starcom MediaVest Group Russia (agency Starcom and MediaVest), ZenithOptimedia Group Russia (and the agency Zenith Optimedia), mediabrandig and consulting platform VivaKi; creative agencies Leo Burnett, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, as well as an internal department Re: Sources Russia. Bus...
a review of the well-known symbol of the London Underground. This strong trait gives the opening words to the creation of a space that interprets the innovative urban concept of underground by exploring chaotic flow lines conveyed in metro stations. The feeling of entering into a metropolitan area in which everybody is going for embarking on a travel, is strong from the ...
FREAKS has been ordered the interior design of Charles'Home headquarter and showroom on the ground floor of a very nice typical flamish facade apartment building located Rue de la Montagne, downtown Brussels, nearing the Galeries Royales of Saint-Hubert. The client's main concern was to welcome the visitors in a comfy space split in two : one in the shape of set as a ...
The recently completed Brisbane office at One One One Eagle Street in the CBD is part of a national design rollout being delivered by Bates Smart which kicked off in Sydney in 2013. The legal workplace is the first of its kind in Brisbane, breaking the traditional mould of law firm design by creating an open and flexible environment which fosters a culture of transparen...
Make is a place where businesses can come to fully immerse themselves in the culture around them. Located in San Diego, CA, Make is a 135,000 sq. ft. workspace converted from a floral trade warehouse. We built the experience from the ground up including strategy, naming, identity and architecture. We wanted to establish a place where creative companies could thrive. T...
