With the completion of its new headquarters, the 1,600 employees of the Le Monde Group have been brought together under the same roof in a generously arching building on 67-69 Avenue Pierre-Mendès-France in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. With its bold new plaza and semi-transparent outer skin, the building creates connections to the general public and surrounding transit while also offering citizens and passersby a generous respite in the city. On December 11, 2020, the building received the prestigious French real estate prize, the Grand Prix SIMI, within the category “New Office Building Larger than 10,000 m²”
YTL Corporation Berhad, a large Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate founded in 1955, grew from a small construction firm into a global infrastructure company spanning oil & gas, cement, construction, property development and hotels.
Previously occupying various offices in different locations, this YTL Headquarters located in Central Kuala Lumper (along Jalan Bukit Bintang) brings together for the first time, the entire suite of YTL departments (numbering more than a dozen, comprising 1000 staff members), each of which have developed their own culture and operations.
The project for the new WBSC headquarters in Lausanne is the result of a formal, sensorial challenge, which has as its main goal the ability to combine in a single architectural work the HISTORY of this sport and its FUTURE-oriented vision.
The HISTORY of Baseball and Softball itself, which dates back to the early 1800s, is full of epic moments. Painstaking analysis and research were conducted into these and other elements typical of these sport disciplines, such as the bat, the glove, the diamond, the ball, the red stitching and the Home Plate. The role of the baseball player is always at the heart of these elements. The rules of the game consist of “moments and episodes” where the individual, which is part of a team, is capable of heroic feats. Not surprisingly, this sport has been extensively featured in films that have made a huge, lasting impact on billions of cinemagoers.
One of the biggest aficionados of colour can be found in Zuffenhausen: Wörwag, a Swabian paint manufacturer that supplies global players worldwide. Companies such as Porsche are amongst its customer base; Wörwag branches can be found throughout the world from China to Mexico. This kind of success story has a lot to do with gumption on managerial level, but also with an excellent instinct for when the famous Swabian accuracy and cosmopolitan outlook are bound to succeed. This instinct really comes into its own in the company’s newly built headquarters: An office that meets all the demands of modern work environments, while paying a colourful tribute to the company’s unique identity wherever the eye falls. The design response provided by the IFG team was therefore not only smart but also: colourful!
Form4 Architecture created the design for Netflix to exude warm modernism at a human scale. Two buildings, totaling 241,000 square feet, are connected by a slender bridge located mid-air allowing for a free flow from building to building. The interior design blurs the distinction between work and social areas. Several types of distinct spaces were created through the use of dividers, furniture groupings, and architectural elements. Warm colors and varied textures impart a residential vibe. The overall design creates a relaxed and collaborative workspace.
The Chinese Culture (Publishing and Broadcasting) Data Industry (CCDI) project is the first national-level data center in China’s news, publishing and broadcasting industry. It is located in Guizhou Shuanglong Airport Economic Zone in Guiyang City. Upon completion, it will become the country’s largest platform for copyright trading, as well as the largest hub for innovative broadcasting and television networks clusters. Reaping the benefits of Guizhou Province’s geography, climate and natural resources, the park is driven by industrial policies, oriented towards big data and cloud computing industries, and strategized to drive the development of the national economy. Its goal is to create a dynamic, complex, open and ecological big data platform.
Surrounded by a lush exterior, the four-story timber structure combines timber frame construction with solid wooden elements to optimize material use and allow for the greatest amount of open floor plans. In addition to the open office concept and sustainable construction methods, the building features an optimized and sustainable energy concept, based on a combination of high-tech and low-tech solutions.
The Maison de l’Ordre des Avocats (MOdA, the headquarters of the Paris Bar Association), is an integral part of the new Cité Judiciaire, a group of buildings dedicated to the legal profession, currently under construction in Paris’s 17th arrondissement. Symbolically transparent, the life of the building, its activity and its comings and goings, will be clearly visible through its facade. The MOdA is sited so that its building fits with and references the much larger Palais de Justice (law courts) building, while standing proudly independent from it, a clear entity in its own right. Structurally sophisticated to deal with a site that sits on top of the Metro, it is also an important part of the new public urban spaces being generated here that will invigorate this neighbourhood.
Client: Ordre des Avocats de Paris + Sogelym-Dixence
Design team: B. Plattner, P. Colonna, S. Cimino, C. Guézet with S. Giorgio-Marrano, C. Maxwell-Mahon, J. Moolhuijzen, A. Bagatella, D. Tsagkaropoulos, O. Aubert, C. Colson, Y. Kyrkos
Rapidly growing “smart manufacturing” automation firm’s headquarters designed for the future now, and tomorrow.
Amplio Headquarters is the sort of technologically driven space that a high-tech firm needs, capable of functioning as an office, development lab and factory while running entirely on automation.
When the emblematic Kristalkule tower also designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was purchased by Finansbank late in construction, the acquisition was both an opportunity and a challenge for the architects.
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