BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group   China   Dubbed ‘O-Tower,’ the skyscraper designed by the Danish firm BIG, headed by Bjarke Ingels, as new R&D headquarters for the Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO will rise in the city of Hangzhou’s Yuhang District. Surrounded by a natural lake, an

Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   The Evangelical Protestant Church’s new headquarters in Stuttgart occupies the site of a 15th-century Dominican monastery destroyed in World War II and makes its remnants part of it. The complex replaces the disjointed postwar reconstruction and crea

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   This project converts a decaying building into a contemporary and durable office space without demolishing its skeleton. The existing building was stripped and then wrapped with an independent facade that serves as both an architectural element and a

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   Sited right at the entrance to the new Mediapark in Brussels, the Maison Media Huis contains various entities related to media and broadcasting. Instead of one large building, three buildings are stacked in a pyramid formation that is immediately rec

MAPAA   Chile   The Chilean practice of Cristián Larraín and Matías Madsen, MAPAA, was commissioned to build an office facility in Pirque, a commune in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, in the Maipo River Valley. Surrounded by olives and vines, the 330-square-meter

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Netherlands   Upon its completion in 1992, Rijnstraat 8 represented both an innovative office typology – its atriums served as conservatories – and a leading example of sustainability. Over time, the building no longer offered the flexibility required of a contemp

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Italy   The new home of Fondazione Prada in Milan, inaugurated in 2015 after the renovation of seven structures of the old distillery – warehouses, laboratories, and brewing silos; and the construction of two new ones – a glazed exhibition hall and a mirror

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Catalan practice of Enric Batlle and Joan Roig transformed an old industrial construction in Barcelona’s 22@ district into a corporate headquarters for Doctors Without Borders. A 2003 renovation had converted the building into offices, modifying

Cifuentes Costales   Spain   A work of the practice of Santiago Cifuentes and Pelayo Costales, the project for the audiovisuals center and headquarters of Grupo Secuoya connects the media company’s executive, management, and administrative departments to its creative, design, an

Mínimo Común Arquitectura   Paraguay   Located in the middle of farmland in Curuguaty, a city in the Canindeyú Department of Paraguay, 350 kilometers from the capital, Asunción, this 200-square-meter office building by the local firm Mínimo Común Arquitectura rises on a platform, set 1.5

Rafael Moneo   Spain   In 2005, the Berlin city council called a competition to define the massing and the set the guidelines for a block bordered by Schinkelplatz, Straße an der Kommandantur, Niederlagstraße, and the small square shaped by two Schinkel projects: on one ha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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