The project for the new corporate offices of Siemens in Polanco was done by Serrano Monjaraz arquitectos. One of the main objectives of the project was to obtain the LEED Gold certification and for this reason all the elements considered for the development of the project were selected with the adequate characteristics to achieve this goal.
Spacesmith was selected to design Avon’s product shop, image room, heritage wall and executive suite for their new Headquarters. In designing these highly visible, public spaces, Spacesmith took the design vocabulary that had been previously established for the project a step further, using materials and design elements that achieved a subtle but powerful quality of heightened luxury and beauty. As part of the Company’s goal to reduce the environmental impacts of Avon buildings worldwide, sustainable materials were implemented in this design that contributed to the new headquarters achieving LEED® Gold certification.
In 2007 Microsoft Italia chose to establish its headquarters in a rural landscape characterized by the seasonally shifting pattern of agricultural production. The proposal focused on the condition of agricultural fringe, an opportunity to create a transition; to create a meeting point between two technologies, working the fields and working with computers. These two realms of technology develop in parallel, with neither prevailing over the other.
Architecture and Landscape: Flores & Prats, Barcelona.
Engineer: Studio MPartner Srl, Milan;
Botanic Adviser: Luigino Pirola, Bérgamo
LEED Certification: Greenwich Srl
Interiors: ReValue, Milan.
Area: 150.000 m2 of plot.
Budget: 150.000.000 euros.
Program: Campus for Microsoft Italia. Offices and services 45.260m2; Auditorium for 400 people, 2.560m2; Kindergarten for 90 kids, 3.000m2; Underground Parking for 1000 cars, 26.500m2; Landscape 55.000m2.
Awards: First International Prize Dédalo-Minosse inVicenza, June 2011. LEED GOLD Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
Software used: A combination of hand drawing with Computer Assisted Design
These buildings are laid out according to a strip arrangement, creating an ordered and functional design which sets out clear entrances and highly versatile, multi-purpose spaces. There is a main communications strip, which is the backbone of the design, created as a glazed area with climbing vegetation and scattered courtyards that provide interesting sequences for the visitor/user.
Internal collaborators: Raúl Vallejo, Antonio Palenzuela, Pedro Seguí, Adrian Navarro, Javier de Simón, Ismael Motos, José Espín, Antonio García, Amanda Cirera, Rafael Robles.
These buildings are laid out according to a strip arrangement, creating an ordered and functional design which sets out clear entrances and highly versatile, multi-purpose spaces. There is a main communications strip, which is the backbone of the design, created as a glazed area with climbing vegetation and scattered courtyards that provide interesting sequences for the visitor/user.
Internal collaborators: Raúl Vallejo, Antonio Palenzuela, Pedro Seguí, Adrian Navarro, Javier de Simón, Ismael Motos, José Espín, Antonio García, Amanda Cirera, Rafael Robles.
External collaborators: JG Ingenieros, Secoal Ingenieros and Sondeal G&M, Decisiones Geotécnicas y Bronce Arquitectónico.
BARCODE Architects completes the first redevelopment phase of CZ insurance headquarters. CZ approached BARCODE Architects with the question to drastically transform the interior of their headquarters in Tilburg so that new ways of working with more opportunities for communication and knowledge sharing could emerge.
The Confederation of Employers of Albacete (FEDA) is a nonprofit organization representing and supporting the business network in the Region. Due to the evolution of its activities and growth of services, the organization raised the idea of bringing together in a sole building all the installations that were scattered throughout the city of Albacete. This idea was the seed of this project.
Colaborators: Mar Melgarejo Torralba and Ayara Mendo Pérez (Conceptual design); Rubén Perea Ibáñez, Oscar Carpio Rodríguez and Juan M. Sánchez Guitiérrez (Constraction’s project phase); José Verdú Montesionos (Building Eng.); Soledad Rodríguez Capuano (Model); José M. Noguera Pardo (3D views)
Use: Office, conferences, meeting, education.
Site: Albacete, España. 39º 00’ 25.49” N 1º 51’ 32.22” W
Article source: Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH
For every business, the new build of a company headquarter is a forward striving action, and thus, also the new ÖWG/ÖWGes office building, became an architectonic contribution to the urban room of Graz. In essence, it’s about expressing presence and future-orientated ambition both externally and among the employed staff, the building should communicate that new approaches are being made.
Image Courtesy Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH
The project is located on a 5-acre site at the southern end of the Halifax downtown waterfront with access from Lower Water Street. The site steps down approximately 7.5m from Lower Water Street to the harbour, east of the site. To the south there has been significant redevelopment of some of existing harbour buildings including the NASCAT, and Pier 21. To the north and west vacant lots exist that will be subject to future development.
Project: NSPI – Nova Scotia Power Corporate Headquarters
Location: Canada
Photography: RPM Productions, Tom Arban, Greg Richardson
Building area: 193 000 ft²
Construction cost: $49 Million
Date completed: Anticipated completion – April 2011
Client name: NSPI – Nova Scotia Power Corporate Headquarters
Architect team members: Jay Bigelow, Carl Blanchaer, John White, Harrison Chan, Arnaldo Zaragoza, Jee-Young Kang, Han Tang, Grace El-Khoury, Max Veneracion, Ronald Baga, Ken Price, Janet Nowakowski
Structural Engineer: BMR Structural Engineering
Mechanical Engineer: M & R Engineering Limited
Electrical Engineer: M & R Engineering Limited
Landscape Architect: Gordon Ratcliffe Landscape Architects
Interiors: Figure3
Contractor: Aecon Atlantic Group
Other Specialist Consultants: LEED Specialist – Enermodal Engineering
This the head office project at Matsuzaka, Mie prefecture in Japan. The project‘s target is not on the value of the object view in respect to sculptural appearance of the building , but rather on the value of the environmental view with body experience.
Image Courtesy Takeshi Nakasa / Nacása & Partners Inc.
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