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
The new library in Caudéran exudes serenity and is supremely functional, both in terms of quality and fitness for purpose. The building is in perfect harmony with the surrounding environment, symbolising the City of Bordeaux’s interest for each and every neighbourhood of the conurbation.’ Frédéric Neau, architect
The new Pierre Veilletet Library is part of an urban landscape redevelopment programme for the Stéhélin neighbourhood of the Bordeaux Caudéran area.
The project aims to ‘redefine the boundaries between sports, recreational activities and town through a number of interconnected programmes designed to transform the Stéhelin neighbourhood into a major hub for the people of Caudéran’.
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.
Article source: Patrick Schweitzer & Associés Architectes
The project is located on the outskirts of the Plaine des Bouchers Business Park, in the very heart of the Meinau district In Strasbourg. Particularly visible from the Avenue de Colmar, the project makes a singular and qualitative mark on the district while ensuring the liveliness of the avenue.
For the San Francisco offices of Publicis Groupe, Blitz employed its new workplace design approach to create a space that promotes a culture of connection, inclusivity, and agility. The offices were designed with the aim to colocate and consolidate the firm’s 11 national and international brands in San Francisco, which employ 550 people previously spread across 120,000 square feet in multiple locations. The result is a dynamic and energetic workspace that reflects the Groupe’s mantra, the Power of One, which served as the key driver for the decision to move all brand agencies under one roof.
Expanding upon the principles of activity‐based workplace design, Blitz provided agile spaces for teams and individuals, while acknowledging the needs of a new mobile workforce. Diverse workstations empower team members to be more effective and engaged than at a traditional assigned desk. Flexible spaces, both open and enclosed, seamlessly integrate access to data, AV, and video conferencing to support a variety of activities throughout the day and encourage crosspollination among brands.
The office for IT department of the PETSHOP company is located in St. Petersburg, on Chkalovsky avenue, in soviet industrial building of 50th – 60th years of the 20th century. Ridge ceiling and concrete columns more than 4 meters high, the top floor and huge windows overlooking the Petrograd Side – these are fine introduction of space for creative department of moderm dynamic company.
The aesthetics of Bauhaus (the higher school in Dessau and the architectural direction of the first third of 20th century) has become a basis of style and the main source of inspiration. Simple laconic forms, utilitarian approach and the ideas of functionalism once has made a revolution in architecture. Now we transfer this esthetics to interior design, but only its decorative part.
Designing a new studio space for a long established and leading environmental graphics firm meant creating a spatial experience that provided continuity with their work ethic and yet explored new inter-relationships that could foster creative thinking.
The design process began with a deep understanding of the rituals of the creative group; headed by Anthony Lopez. On an everyday level their zen-like approach towards a barefoot office, sharing a communal lunch, multiple spaces for informal reflection, outdoor pads for the all-pervasive phone calls, amongst others, shaped the spatial configuration. The need for larger gatherings such as their bi-weekly Forum and other office social events, also informed the design process.
Gaysorn II is a mix use development that aims to create a new approach to commercial design through careful planning and curation of Lifestyle, Work, Play and Grow in a holistic environment.
Inspired by the traditional Thai culture in craft and hospitality, the project synergizes and combines the components of retail, dining, workplace, conferencing and wellness through an integrated and sustainable design in the heart of Bangkok’s CBD and retail area.
Gaysorn Plaza I was developed in 1994 and was facing strong competition from newer, larger retail development in the neighborhood, Gaysorn II is primarily an office tower on top of a retail podium, and it is the developer’s intent that the combined retail area will make it more commercially competitive in the area.
Article source: Quarta & Armando Architecture Design Research
In the new space designed for tableware company Home Base, dining showroom and office coexist in a meld of contrasting brightness and darkness.
Home Base is a tabletop company that works with the world’s best hotels and restaurants in creating bespoke, uniquely designed ceramic tableware to enhance dining experiences. In 2019, it decided to relocate from a conventional office to a new space in Shanghai’s Xuhui district, and Quarta & Armando was given the task to make the most of the 320sqm, 8-meter-tall former industrial building, accommodate an ever-expanding team as well as create a memorable experience for visiting customers.
The new Westland town hall and municipality office were opened in Naaldwijk. The opening included an official ribbon cutting ceremony by mayor Sjaak van der Tak, alderman Bram Meijer, Volker Wessels CEO Dik Wessels and Volker Wessels director Piet van der Hoeven. The town hall functions as a center for the council as well as for public services and ceremonial gatherings. It is situated at the Verdilaan. The new municipality office houses the majority of the municipal staff and is located at the Laan van de Glazen Stad (Lane of the Glass City). The new edifices were jointly realized within the framework of a Design Build Finance Maintain and Operate-assignment that was granted to the Groene Schakel (Green Link) consortium, which consists of Boele en Van Eesteren, Homij Technische Installaties, the PHC Dienstengroep and Kondor Wessels Projecten. The architecture and interior were designed by cepezed and cepezedinterior.
Project: Westland town hall and municipality office
Location:
Verdilaan 7, Naaldwijk (NL)
Laan van de Glazen Stad 1, Naaldwijk (NL)
Photography: cepezed | Lucas van der Wee, Gert-Jan Vlekke
Primary Client: Gemeente Westland
Contractor: De Groene Schakel (consortium with Boele & van Eesteren, Homij Technical Installations, PCH Dienstengroep and KondorWessels Projecten)
Type Of Contract: DBFMO (Design, Build, Finance, Maintain, Operate)
Architect: architectenbureau cepezed, Delft
Project Team: Jan Pesman, Ronald Schleurholts, Joost Heijnis, Frederique van Alphen, Robbert van de Straat, Frank Maas, Mattijs van Lopik, San Dino Arcilla
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