Company headquarters in the inner city usually form blind spots, unattractive to the public and desolate after office hours. Therefore, the design is not understood as an architectural but as an urban task with the aim of maximizing public space on the building lot. With a number of plazas, a direct footpath from the main train station and the inner city and the integration of external uses, the area becomes more attractive to the public. The demand for maximum public use and communication dictates the internal organization of the building.
Aachenmünchener Headquarters
Aachenmünchener Hq, Aachen | Germany The annex occupies two blocks of late 19th-century city fabric, and provides a new interpretation of the typical perimeter development with its semi-public and leafy courtyards. The urban sequence of expansions and squares is extended by a perron and a plaza evolving from it. Existing and new buildings are connected by the “boulevard” which consists of a transparent level hosting seminar areas, a restaurant, a cafeteria, meeting rooms, and other communication areas. The boulevard floats above the various garden spaces inside the building block, and connects the office spaces, eventually opening up at the main entrance and the pocketpark, offering a representative face to the street.
Architect: kadawittfeldarchitektur GmbH
Completion + Construction time: 11/2007 – 10/2010
Builder: Generali Deutschland Immobilien GmbH
Project Manager: Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Stefan Haass, Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Jascha Klusen
Type: office building
Construction volume: gfa 28.050 m² cubature 100.600 m³
In Minas Gerais, a state located in Middle East of Brazil, COPASA – Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais, is the state owned company responsible for the water treatment and distribution to the majority of the cities. For the planning and management, the company has an Administrative District for each of the five regions in the state. The project here presented comprehends one of the administrative head-office, located in São Sebastião do Paraíso – Minas Gerais state.
Intexure Architects designed the City of Houston Green Building Resource Center. It is a design leading by example, proving sustainability can be both beautiful and attainable. This project successfully achieved client goals in demonstrating a variety of sustainable options as well as increasing the general public’s awareness about the value of green design.
Nordson New Corporate Headquarters Incorporates Leading Green Building Technologies.
Nordson Corporation recently opened a new 28,000 square-foot global headquarters facility in Westlake, Ohio that incorporates leading green building technologies and is expected to earn a prestigious Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification later in 2011.
Drawing on the power of parametric scripting, the design of the Phare Tower gathers disparate programmatic, physical, and infrastructural elements from the requirements of the building and its surrounding context, and synthesizes these into a form that seamlessly integrates the building into the idiosyncrasies of its site while expressing multiple flows of movement. In the spirit of the Paris Exposition competition proposals, the tower embodies state-of-the-art technological advances to become a cultural landmark.
KKA designed a new office building of 1100 sq m, adjacent to a new industrial hall, in Kungälv for the steel manufacturer Lecor. The building, which houses the Lecor headquarters includes offices, dining area/kitchenette, meeting rooms, a library and changing rooms.
It is a plan of the flagship shop of Ginza ‘Natsuno’（the “Chopsticks” specialty store）of Ginza. A long and slender building where 40m “Chopsticks” like structure stands tall on a site only 50m２ in the corner in the intersection on Namiki street and Matsuya street.
The SkyCourt building in the Intangible Culture Park takes its inspiration from the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the relationship between the architecture and the natural context. The multiple courtyards in the compound frame views of the sky above. The courtyards also frame small gardens that bring the natural world inside the house.
Designed as a sinuous sculpted structure, the building has been split into podium and apartment elements. These elements physically describe the different uses within the development and employ changes in height and setbacks to alter the perception of the buildings size from different angles. In perspective no entire elevation is viewed at once. The buildings have no front, rear, or side, and present a consistent level of finish when viewed from any direction.
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