Barkow Leibinger   Germany   The office park City Nord in Hamburg presents an eclectic mix of historical and modern architecture, and a new building rises at Kaptstadtring 5. Its form integrates well with its neighbors, responding to the area’s characteristics in scale and heigh

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Chris van Duijn   China   The new 105-meter-tall tower designed by OMA-Chris van Duijn addresses its immediate urban surroundings with a sculptural facade of white ceramic stripes. It is the firm Jomoo’s headquarters, standing at the intersection of two contrasting contexts:

Atienza Maure   Spain   Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company within a block set between party wal

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The office buiding HORTUS has opened its doors in the technology campus Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, in Allschwil. It offers approximately 10,000 m² of space for around 600 workplaces, in an open-plan layout ensuring flexibility and induci

Díaz y Díaz   Spain   An ideas competition was held to build a virtual production center in what was a weapons factory in A Coruña. It is now the Cidade das TIC, a facility for developing information and communication technologies. The winning design – by the firm Díaz y

Quinta Fachada | Arquitectura Consciente   Ecuador   Located in a residential area of Ibarra, the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, this project was envisioned as an extension of the context. A respectful dialogue was established between the building and the landscape, incorporating susta

Foster + Partners   United States   The Los Angeles City Council has approved Foster+Partners’ Television City scheme, to be carried out for the real estate developer Hackman Capital Partners. This project will update the 1952 buildings designed by William Pereira and transform the 25-

BAX studio   Slovenia   In 2019, the Slovenian firm Dimnikcobau called an international design competition for the DCB Montana business center in the industrial zone of Moste, in Ljubljana. The Barcelona studio BAX won it with a project that involved three buildings, an exi

Mulder Zonderland   Germany   In 2019, the firm headed by Jan Maarten Mulder and Sjoerd Zonderland was commissioned to build Lab02, containing offices and laboratories for manufacturing medicines. Located in Lörrach, near the Black Forest, the 3,400-square-meter building presents

Harquitectes   Spain   The new headquarters of Prodis, an organization devoted to assisting and promoting adults with intellectual disabilities, is located in old industrial buildings of Filatures Matarí, within the Vapor Cortès complex, in Terrassa’s Ca n’Aurell neighborh

Barozzi Veiga   Germany   Kiefersfelden is located in the region of the Bavarian Alps, in the south of Germany, near the border with Austria, in an impressive natural landscape of mountains, forests, and green prairies. The small municipality, of some 7,000 inhabitants, is an

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   Located in the Scientific-Technological Park of Almería (PITA in Spanish), to the northeast of the city, the new Financial Center of the Banco de Crédito Cooperativo-Grupo Cajamar is the result of a competition, celebrated in 2019, which proposed the

Waechter + Waechter   Germany   The German practice led by Felix and Sybille Waechter designed the Innovationsfabrik 2.0 center for emerging enterprises for a site on the banks of the Neckar River in the city of Heilbronn. Its facades present an exposed timber frame protected by a

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in Allschwil’s industrial area, east of the city of Basel, the new BaseLink technology campus plans to build more than 75.000 square meters devoted to technology and innovation. The new campus houses HORTUS, which stands for House of Research

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The sip main Campus is part of the BaseLink site, a global hub for innovative companies in life sciences, technologies, and research. The project offers flexibility and durability, catering to start-ups, scale-ups, and established companies in the bi

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The master plan proposed for Helvetia Group’s new campus provides space for all Basel-based Helvetia employees, who have been spread across different buildings in the city. The various buildings of the Basel headquarters have grown very heterogeneou

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Adamson Associates Architects   United Kingdom   Next to busy Paddington Square in London, this mixed-use building contains offices, shops, and a variety of bars and cafés, all of it crowned with a terrace and a restaurant commanding views of the city. A 50x50x50-meters cube raised on a podium of p

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios   United Kingdom   Shrewsburg Flaxmill Maltings was originally built in 1797 and served different purposes in the course of time, including as military barracks during World War II. The site closed in 1987. A work of Charles Bage, the listed building is known as the ‘g

Tomás García Píriz   A few meters from its current headquarters in Granada, Red Cross decided to expand its facilities on the ground floor of a residential block, at the end of the centrally located Paseo del Salón. The decision addressed two needs: a regrouping of all t

VTN Architects   Vietnam   The architecture firm’s own offices incorporate modular concrete planters that do much to create a comfortable microclimate and provide a laboratory for the testing of ecological seeds. The experimental character of the building showcases the practic

Foster + Partners   China   The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has officially opened new offices in Shanghai’s Xuhui Riverside district. Designed from the inside out, the building is modular and lightweight, seeking to give an image of openness and transparency. It features a

Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius José María García de Paredes    Spain   Under the influence of Gio Ponti, the sinuous expressivity and exquisite materiality of the interiors seek to turn an administrative program into a genuine experience of space. The efficient layout, the fruit of an exhaustive study of references, is

oiga estudio   Spain   The Operations Organization and Control Center (COCO) of the municipal corporation Autobuses Urbanis de Valladolid S.A. (AUVASA) was set up to address the need to expand the latter’s facilities, in accordance with its new mission of ensuring intermod

Developed by Accenture Song with its Hybrid Spaces team (Nacho Martín, Ana Petra Moriyón), the Neo-Rotonda is a multimedia space comprising different immersive levels. It is located in Torre Andreu, a modernist tower in Barcelona known as La Rotonda,

The architecture firm Carvalho Araújo has won the international competition to build headquarters for EDA Drinks & Wine Campus in Vitoria and Laguardia. EDA Drinks & Wine Campus is a project spearheaded and developed by the Basque Culinary Ce

Thirty years after its creation, the Technology Park of Andalusia – now simply called Málaga TechPark to satisfy the whims of marketing – is a concentration of half a thousand companies, including many of the promising startup firms that have been tu

Three decades after starting out in the profession under Renzo Piano, Mario Cucinella (Palermo, 1960) now runs one of Italy’s busiest architecture offices, carrying out from his offices in Bologna and Milan a continuous stream of projects that, more

JDS, Coldefy, NL Architects, Carlo Ratti, ENSAMBLE STUDIO, UTIL cvba, and Ramboll have together won the bid to revamp the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building, main home…

With six sites in different countries of the European Union, the Joint Research Center is the organism that provides the European Commission with scientific support for the conception of its plans and policies. The Seville branch opened in 1994 as a

The Guardian   Joanna Partridge   Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development design

The Guardian   Carly Olson   Tightening regulations and a growing eco-conscious workforce are major factors in heralding green office campuses. About 40 miles south of San Francisco, three futuristic structures rise from the earth. They are, in fact, part of Google’s n

Alberto Campo Baeza has for the property developers Sumaida + Khurana y Bizzi & Partners designed an office building to go up in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. Combining white concrete, glass, and marble, it will rise around a large central atrium

El País   It is to go up on what is currently a parking lot in front of the flagship store at Nuevos Ministerios. A property of the department store chain since 2014, this is one of the most coveted sites on Paseo de la Castellana. The building will have a tot

Facing the arcaded gallery at Nuevos Ministerios on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the firms totem arquitectos and BETA.Ø have together come up with an efficient alternative to the conventional office building. The faceted volume has been expressl

The practice headed by the architect Enrique Álvarez-Sala recently completed the renovation of the General Insurance Directorate headquarters, an intervention which has involved consolidating the administrative building’s structure of post-tensioned

The list of Madrid works by the British architect Norman Foster – Cepsa Tower, Axis at Plaza Colón, the Hall of Realms at the Prado Museum – will soon be including an office complex for the Spanish sustainable infrastucture and renewable energy cong

The Barcelona practice headed by Boris Bežan and Mónica Juvera, Bax studio, won the invitational competition that was organized for the creation of the Dimnikcobau office complex in the industrial zone of Moste, located in the east-central part of th

A screen-like building, seemingly trivial but with a scale and urban position that make it a monument, has given OMA / Reiner de Graaf the victory in the contest for the new headquarters of the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB), beside the B

After the enormously successful architectural and corporate adventure that Apple was, the British firm Foster + Partners has won the bid to raise headquarters for another giant of our globalized world, Alibaba, a China-based leader in online retail a

The firm of Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, will be building a Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store, cum hotel, in Vienna’s historic center, right in the Museumsquartier. The project – OMA’s first in the Austrian capital

Shortly after being hired by the Art Institute of Chicago to enlarge its campus and give it a major makeover, the Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga has won the competition to build the mountain sports brand Dynafit’s new managerial and administravi

Digitalization takes command of the world, and its thinning effects are increasingly felt in architectural types that once upon a time were solid and stable. A case in point is the library, whose mission of being a container of books is steep in cris

The Architect's Newspaper   Antonio Pacheco   Gehry Partners has unveiled renderings for a new 800,000-square-foot office complex slated for the Warner Bros. studio campus in Burbank, California. In a press release announcing the project, Gehry said, “Once upon a time, Hollywood Studios had an i

Carrying the day over more modest buildings, such as the Tate Gallery in Cornwall, the Bushey Jewish Cemetery, and the Storey’s Field Community Center and Nursery in Cambridge, Norman Foster has for the third time landed the RIBA Stirling Prize throu

Promoted by the late Antonino Fernández, one of the principal proprietors of the Mexican business group Modelo (distributor of ‘Coronita’), the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) has dedicated its new headquarters in the brewer’s native tow

Curbed   Amy Plitt   JP Morgan Chase has selected the British firm, helmed by starchitect Norman Foster, for its new HQ at 270 Park Avenue in New York. In a statement, Foster said he is “delighted” to be working on the new Chase HQ. “The building design is set to respond

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