Austin based Specht Architects partnered with STG Design and Novo Construction, designs Indeed.com’s new Austin HQ. “Indeed’s newest Austin hub expresses a new visual identity for the company – one centered around an honest expression of the company’s values, while also incorporating signature elements that are to be deployed throughout Indeed’s other worldwide offices,” says Scott Specht, founder Specht Architects. “ It is modern, minimal, and simple, yet infused with warm materials and spaces for a multitude of ways of working and recharging.”
In their design for the new head office and production site for Kirsch Pharma HealthCare GmbH in Wedemark, Germany, SAOTA rethinks the often underwhelming and generic industrial prototype.
The site of German‐based Kirsch Pharma HealthCare’s new factory and headquarters in Wedemark, Germany, is a somewhat anonymous industrial zone without distinctive contextual cues. South African‐based architectural firm SAOTA approached the project with the understanding that a meaningful architectural response to this environment would require a building that stood as a sculptural object in the landscape, making a strong architectural statement that imparted a sense of presence and identity in its own right.
An office floor on the 18th floor in newly built WTC with large panoramic windows and a phenomenal view over the city of Utrecht. This is Aalberts HQ with 25 employees including the Management Board, facilitates central functions like strategy, marketing & communications, M&A, business development, group control, legal and governance, treasury, tax, insurance, internal audit and all responsibilities and communications towards our shareholders.
From the beginning, we had a vision of a concatenated lounge floor, where working, meeting and relaxing merge in a free and casual manner. A place to feel at ease while working on great deals.
Petrol Ofisi, leading fuel distribution company in Turkey, relied on Lagranja Design for the design of their new headquarters in Istanbul, placed in a mixed-use complex in the Asian side of the Bosphorus. Lagranja Design had many factors to consider; namely timelessness, well-being for the company’s employees, and optimal organization of over 10,000 square meters of office space.
Conceived as interlocking cuboids, separated by a city block; the facade narratives and building ratios of the CITIC Properties Headquarters read as two parts of one whole. Each block comprises a smaller, jewel-like, glass and metal volume set within a larger granite clad base. Located on two land parcels within the former 2010 Shanghai World Expo site, the development is composed of two separate mid-rise Class A office towers. To the north of the development is the Huangpu River, facing east is the World Expo Boulevard; cultural and event spaces surround the site, such as the Shanghai Conference Center, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, and the World Expo China Pavilion. The southern building tops out at fifteen floors and the northern at nine. In total, the buildings GFA measures 57,666 sqm, built across two sites totaling 12,549 sqm.
The Design Project of headquarters building of BIALMED pharmaceutical wholesaler breaks a stereotype of a typical warehouse design time fulfilling a task of blending an enormous structure into a green landscape of Masuria district in Poland at the same. The design becomes almost a natural part of the surroundings.
The attempt to merge industrial architecture with nature may seem strange at first, but both – the Client and the Designers made this a priority in the design process. Greenery , nature and sustainability were the most important theme of the project – not only when it comes to building architecture, but technical installations as well. The building itself is heated by heat pumps, while electricity is gained of photo-voltaic cells.
The building holds the new administrative headquarters of the “Federation International de Gymnastique” (FIG).
The ground floor accommodates a reception area, a conference room, translation booths and a cafeteria. Above sits three administrative floors and an attic designed specifically for seminar and conference usage. A semi-buried car park and a basement, dedicated to technical installations and archives, serves to the five floors above the ground. Approximately 2,300m2 of net administrative area are thus distributed on four level of 500m2 each and an attic of 300m2.
OPPO launched their first phone in 2008, growing to become China’s leading smartphone manufacturer and the fifth largest worldwide with over 40,000 employees in more than 40 countries. Pioneering new communication technology in smart devices and internet services, OPPO has established six research institutes, four research & development centres, and a global design studio.
Project Directors: Charles Walker (Commercial Director), Christos Passas (Design Director), Satoshi Ohashi (ZHA China Director)
Project Associates: Hussam Chakouf (Competition Lead), Juan Liu, Yang Jingwen
Project Designers: Melhem Sfeir (Competition Lead), Duo Chen, Katerina Smirnova
Project Team: Massimo Napoleoni (Facade Specialist), Aleksander Bursac, Mihai Dragos-Porta, Vera Kichanova, Ying Xia, Che-Hung Chien, Meng Zhao, Qi Cao, Alex Turner (Graphic Designer)
Workspace Analysts: Uli Bloom, Philip Siedler, Lorena Espaillat Bencosme
Project Support: Tatiana Chembereva, Camille Kelly
Fourstar Group tapped Blitz’s expertise creating innovative offices in Silicon Valley to design its Shenzhen office space to reflect the product development and consumer goods distributor’s innovative design services and reinforces the company’s culture of creativity. Blitz transformed a three‐floor, 59,400‐square‐foot office building into a best‐in‐class office space to support Fourstar Group’s expanding global retail partnerships and intense demand for toptier talent. In addition to its headquarters in Shenzhen, Fourstar Group has offices across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. As an innovation‐driven company, Fourstar Group leads the entire product development process from design and engineering through manufacturing, quality control, packing, marketing, and distribution.
Client: Fourstar Group is a product development and consumer goods distribution firm headquartered in Shenzhen, with offices across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Studio Alexander Fehre was asked to design an office world for the new headquarters of Bosch Automotive Steering. The new building was originally constructed for predecessor ZF Lenksysteme, who wanted a building with emblematic character. Following the takeover by Bosch, a new direction was chosen for the site and the headquarters were repurposed as a development campus. SAF was asked to illustrate this process of change by redesigning the interior space with a focus on inviting, open-plan spaces in place of traditional office structures, and an inspiring colour world instead of sharp, black and white contrasts.