3XN’s design for Swedbank is an innovative interpretation of the core values of the organization; Openness, Simplicity and Care – all materialized in a modern office space with emphasis on transparency, Scandinavian simplicity and a dynamic social environment. Thus the architecture is based directly on the organization’s profile as at once a solid, financially sound and modern bank interpreted through 3XN’s philosophy about behavior and architecture.
Liong Lie Architects has designed the new interior of the NTI head office in Leiden, Holland. NTI stands for more than 70 years of cutting-edge distance education. The new learning according to NTI is the ideal combination of online learning and classroom meetings.
The corporate offices of American Standard are located at the Corporate Headquarters, Campus Coyoacán, Coyoacán Avenue, México City.
With a land area of 1,500m2 the offices are conceived based on two central concepts which were fundamental for the development of the project. The first was to generate a showroom for its clients and the second, the corporate offices.
The corporate headquarters of the newly formed joint ventures – ‘Volvo-Eicher’ is designed to be a state of the art steel building for the engineering group which uses the least amount of energy and resources possible in its day to day functioning. The clients approach towards the projects required RKDS in coordination with Spectral Design services to design LEED rated building.
Cooperation across departments has been the key focus of the proposal for a new head office for the Codan insurance company in the Ørestaden urban development area.
Codan’s ambition to create a working environment that focuses on opportunities to work across departments is fulfilled by placing the interior spaces of the new head office building around a large, glass-covered atrium with balconies at different levels, as well as open stairways.
UNStudio’s design has been selected as the winning entry in the competition for the remodelling of the Hanwha headquarters building in Seoul.The renovation of the office tower incorporates the remodelling of the facade, the interior of the common spaces, lobbies, meeting levels, auditorium and executive areas, along with the redesign of the landscaping.
The main task was to design the interior office space for the company CEMEX, which is engaged inmanufacturing of concrete mixtures, cement and aggregates. The new offices will be located in the administrative center of City West in Prague Stodulky. Our goal was to fit 50 working places, arrange them into open-space office, 7 closed offices for team-leaders and a director, one large meeting room for 20 people and another 4 small meeting rooms with total capacity of 30 seats. In the office should also be a relaxation zone with a small gym and a kitchenette.
The headquarters for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, California brings staff, grantees and partners together to solve the world’s most intractable problems. Passive, bioclimatic design strategies support the core philanthropic mission while serving as the basis of the net zero energy (NZE) and LEED Platinum building performance.
Two sister Middle Eastern media companies sought to create conjoined headquarters buildings. Aside from the companies’programmatic and area requirements for the headquarters, their demands were few: propose two elegant structures that make reference to traditional Arab architecture. The companies also provided a long, slender precedent structure—approximately 100 m (330 ft) long x 22 m (72 ft) wide—for consideration that could simultaneously accommodate offices and the relatively small broadcast / news studios. REX took this slender precedent as its starting point.
PROGRAM: Headquarters buildings for sister media companies, including offices, studios, and common facilities (agora, amphitheater, auditorium, café, canteen, employee lounge, executive lounge, fine dining, gallery, health club, majlis, and theater)
AREA: 240,200 m² (2,600,000 sf)
CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: Confidential
STATUS: Invited competition, 2013
KEY PERSONNEL: Alberto Cumerlato, Tomas Janka, Gabriel Jewell-Vitale, Roberto Otero, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Aude Soffer, Alex Tehranian, Cristina Webb.
ChaiOne is an innovative enterprise mobility agency. Their new international HQ will be located just east of downtown Houston. It will be a renovation of an abandoned 1920’s Art Deco Concrete Shell building which was the original Schlumberger HQ. This project is part of a broader push to develop a livable high tech start up district in the long neglected east Houston area.