Due to its prominent street corner location, the new TAZ building must mediate between the urban fabric of a traditional Berlin block and solitary buildings from the IBA era. The design combines the urban block and the corner, adopting the height of the eaves characteristic to the city, in order to continue the block. Meanwhile, a subtle setback of the facade facing Friedrichstrasse marks the entrance. The structural system, conceived as a network, attempts to achieve the greatest possible load capacity with the fewest possible elements. The net is a structure with no hierarchy, in which all the parts must perform equally, and can only achieve stability together, symbolizing the horizontal and open organization of the company. The main structure is composed of diagonal bracings along the periphery of the building envelope, and therefore does not require any additional support on the inside. The almost thirteen-meter-long, free-spanning office floors create a raw, workshop-like atmosphere and are able to respond flexibly to a variety of forms of use. The glass-enclosed staircase sculpture in the center of the new building is, due to its dimension and plasticity, more than just a vertical connection mechanism, offering a place of informal exchange...[+][+]