As an international corporation, Drees&Sommer provides support in all aspects of property for public and private building owners as well as investors. Our range of services includes development consultancy, project management, engineering, infrastructure consultancy and strategic process consultancy. With 17 locations in Germany and a further 18 throughout the world, we currently have over 1,500 employees. We adhered to the highest standards in the transformation of our Stuttgart office building, drawing on Drees&Sommer’s extensive experience in innovative usage and spatial concepts as well as corporate processes which always take employees into consideration.
Article source: Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
The project for this 50-storey office block sought to favour the possibility of a panoramic view over the city, so that there is an evident predominance of glass on the façade while nevertheless avoiding the formulaic glass tower of arbitrary forms. The existence of the American tradition of skyscraper construction, with some especially attractive examples inChicago, suggested the need to reestablish a dialogue between the classicism of stone and the high-tech of glass.
Building the head offices of a social housing operator is a unique and symbolic act. For the public and the operator’s various partners, the building needs to embody and reflect the values of Aquitanis. It needs to convey a gentle form of symbolism.
Based on the pre-existence of a large building which serves as a “skin” to maintain, the concept of action is based on dividing the interior space in “boxes” spaced to the existing construction and arranged according to the program and spans in the original facades. This proposal aims to build within the built and add without touching in order to integrate without merging two distinct approaches to architecture, the existing and the new proposal.
Article source: Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
New head office of Cartier firm in Paris Saint-Honoré district. The offices are articulated around a courtyard.The main street, Rue du Faubourg, provides three entry points into the interior courtyard. The façades are made of clear and serigraphed glass; the paving is Pietra Serena. The programme includes offices, shops, a showroom, a restaurant and a bar, a multi-purpose hall, a gymnasium and parking space below grade for 450 vehicles.
Docked icebreakers are an essential part of the Katajanokka-shore environment. The new head-quarters of Arctia Shipping Ltd. will be placed in a floating office building in front of the listed main building of the Finnish ministry of Foreign Affairs which was originally designed by C.L.Engel.
This is the world headquarters for the United Nations trade body for INBAR and is the first U.N. headquarters inChina. Its goal is to define and implement a global agenda for sustainable development and it is dedicated to improving the social, economic, and environmental conditions of its members through the use of renewable resources. The project was received as a result of winning an international competition. The building is set at the focal point of the Wangjing Area, a new district inBeijingand it is intended to provide the catalyst for the renewal for the area.
The need to renew the premises of an office block located in a suburb in the north area of Madrid was perceived as a chance to make the most out of an underused building. One intervention after another had made it more and more meaningless, with a broken up and confusing spatial organization structure and an environment that made it difficult for it to be seen from the urban surroundings. The operation entailed a new space management policy for the company, which turned the building into its new corporate headquarters.
In 2011 we were approached by a client we had built a house for to design the new office for his company. In his opinion the house we had designed for him is still “the best house in the world” and he expected nothing less for his new office fit out. Indeed the only design brief other than the number of workstations to be accommodated was that it had to be “funky”.
Skype’s primary goal was to create a world-class o”ce that would di!erentiate them from their Bay Area competitors in the recruitment of talent. Their new space not only had to be a design statement that reflected their modern but fun personality, but it also had to meet very specific acoustic requirements to support the company’s extensive use of AV. Skype hired Design Blitz architects to design their new North American headquarters on an aggressive budget and schedule. Despite being one of several new o”ces that year for Skype, the completed project ultimately became the standard for the international communications company and also achieved LEED Silver certification.
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