align has completed the design of a 25,000 sq ft space on the 4th floor of the Adelphi Building on John Adam Street in London’s west end for The Economist Group, enabling all the group’s London staff to be integrated into the same office for the first time in several years. Whilst The Economist newspaper’s editorial team first moved to the John Adam Street building five years ago, its commercial teams and the group’s other businesses – around 530 people in total, incorporating job functions from events, marketing, editorial and legal to HR, technology and finance, as well as the group’s charitable educational foundation – continued to be housed in a separate office in Canary Wharf.
Michelin’s Canopy was implanted in the Carmes site of Clermont-Ferrand since the company’s inception in the late 19th century, and instituted as its headquarters in the 2000s. The project, delivered in 2021 and carried by the partnership between Encore Heureux Architectes, Construire and Base, aims to embody the image of the group in a welcoming, unique and cohesive space, all while inserting itself in an emblematic public square. The headquarters’ innovative new reception area symbolizes Michelin’s reinvention, conceived to face 21st century challenges head-on; a design and operation that were conceptualized in a circular economy perspective, mindful of environmental impact.
The dynamic architecture of the Innovation Curve at Stanford Research Park celebrates the creative process of technology, which is fundamental to the international success of Silicon Valley. The peaks and valleys of sweeping metal curves serve as architectural metaphors for the highs and lows of exploratory research and development. Designed by Form4 Architecture of San Francisco, the new development comprises four buildings on the edge of Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto. The LEED Platinum-certified project contributes to the site’s emergence as an uplifting campus for tenants involved with computer gaming, translation software, and digital inventions. Representing the evolution of innovation on the face of the buildings, the lyrical design serves as a potent visual reminder of the dedicated, expansive, and intense work taking place inside.
Size: 288,000 total square feet in four buildings on 13.5-acre campus: Building 1: 66,700 square feet; Building 2: 66,700 square feet; Building 3: 77,000 square feet; Building 4: 77,000 square feet
Article source: Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes
Levitt Bernstein and TKMT architectes designed a new visitor centre as part of the Institut Laue-Langevin campus in Grenoble, a pan-European initiative providing neutrons to visiting researchers for experiments and analysis at the molecular level. The new building will give access to the institute’s array of state-of-the-art equipment and provide scientists with a base for their work. Also included are new conference facilities, bookable lab space and healthcare support. Inspired by the nearby neutron accelerator, the design of the building takes its cues from specific scientific methods, while also creating highly functional, multipurpose spaces.
Located on Plaza Saint-Hubert, one of Montreal’s classic commercial strip, TUX’s new head offices reflect the dynamic and creative values of this marketing company. Two existing buildings were merged as one and, while TUX’s offices occupy a whole level, other uses have taken place in the building to create a mixed and diversified program.
The project’s program includes a cafe on the ground floor, directly connected to the plaza through the front facade. As you move past the cafe, a photo studio and a cafeteria then follow and open to the rear alleyway. On the second floor, a vast and opened workspace is bathed in abundant natural light coming from skylights and large windows. Then, a third floor has been added to the structure to house a family in a large residential penthouse.
At the corner of Donker Curtiusstraat and Van Hallstraat in Amsterdam, Studioninedots has created the surprising transformation of a prominent, 1964 office building. In the new DC Van Hall, we introduce studio housing for graduates and students, which together with creative workplaces and small-scale entrepreneurs bring new life to the surrounding Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood.
On the ground level of Westbeat Studioninedots’ mixed-use building in Amsterdam-West a new office landscape has been created. With ‘Wet Beast’, Studioninedots presents a workplace concept in which three mystical objects provide space for experimentation, interaction and spontaneity within the social sphere of a working environment.
The world’ s leading chemical company BASF moved its office in İzmir to its new location with an area of 570 m2 and had its interior concept and design work realized by Mimaristudio.
Led and support by BASF Facility Management/Real Estate Management department, with the Basf corporate criterias and ideas, the company realized one of its first hybrid working model applications in the world in Turkey.
Article source: Architectural studio ZJA in collaboration with HEYLIGERS architects
The former Diamond Exchange, Capital C Amsterdam, dating from 1911, has undergone a major renovation designed by the architectural studio ZJA in collaboration with Heyligers architects. The monumental building has been largely restored to the original Gerrit van Arkel design and has regained its original allure. The Dutch monument is crowned with a striking, spatial dome of glass and steel; the High Light. Common thread running through the building are about twenty art and design projects.
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MVRDV has completed construction of the Idea Factory, a transformation of a former factory building in the Shenzhen urban village of Nantou that sustainably reusing and improving the building instead of demolishing and rebuilding it. The project contains a mixture of offices for the Urban Research Institute of China Vanke and offices for rent – yet despite this programme, its distinguishing features are public in nature: a stairway cuts its way through the six-storey building, leading to a rooftop with a series of “rooms” enclosed by living bamboo “walls”, offering a variety of amenities and activities.
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