BAID Architekten from Hamburg are responsible for the design of the ALDI Nord Campus in Essen-Kray. The new, signet-like administration building of ALDI Einkauf SE & Co. oHG will eventually provide workspace for up to 2,000 employees.
At the beginning of March, the new ALDI Nord Campus in Essen-Kray was opened after a construction period of almost three years. The building complex, which covers around 100,000 square metres, was designed by BAID Architekten from Hamburg and is a significant milestone in the corporate history of the Essen-based discount supermarket chain. On an area the size of 14 football pitches, the new building offers an ultra-modern, agile working environment. A working environment that provides plenty of room for cooperation and communication in new ways of working. The ALDI Nord Campus is thus a symbol for the transformation process of the ALDI Nord Group.
When creating Terrain Consulting’s new workplace, we developed a hybrid workplace that provided the company with the ability to be flexible and agile. The design reflects the company’s confidence in its brand as a leading Planning and Land Surveying consultancy.
The traditional ‘Front of House’ area was replaced with a welcoming communal area for informal meetings, staff lunches or large gatherings; breaking the mould of typical workplace reception areas.
The new building, which houses LAGO Logistica and LAGO Osteria, was designed by zaettastudio and intends to give a sense to the industrial building, with a bold architecture that explores the lexicon of technological innovation, without neglecting the artisanal and territorial tradition of the company.
Architect Giorgio Zaetta expresses. “We usually work on residential projects, with a home like dimension. The challenge of this project is to create the spirit of a house inside a factory, therefore an industrial architecture not only functional, but also capable of encompassing other values. Beyond the external shape, what distinguishes the project is the quality of the interior space, which manages to create a place to work feeling at home.”
Our work for Kaufman, one of the leading importers and distributors in the fields of health, comfort, design and lifestyle in Israel, was full of creativity. Kaufman Group is steadily expanding in all directions, from the web to brick and mortar. The newly created logistical center for the Kaufman space needed to depict this growth, as well as house and showcase all of its brands. It needed to embody a logistical center, but it also needed character and design.
The inspiration for this design utilized the personality of all of Kaufman’s brands, this includes the classic Italian design (Natuzzi), the comfort and ergonomics (Dr. Gav), the young vibe (Marley), and others. Through the diversity of the designs and the adhesion to Kaufman’s brands, this space brings life and joy to each who enters.
Infobip is a unicorn IT company based in Vodnjan, Istria, where it also built its first campus. The company’s rapid growth has spawned the need for a new hybrid building in Zagreb. Infobip is located on a plot on the southern edge of Zagreb, in a rurban zone bordering New Zagreb, directly next to the corridor of the newly planned avenue that will, once it is built, run along the southern edge of Zagreb. The zone is an entropic and poorly regulated area with low-rise medium-density multi-dwelling buildings lacking both an articulated public space and nature.
The Zemelny Office Building is located close to the Moscow metro station called Ulitsa 1905 Goda. The building is surrounded with the industrial architecture dating back to the last century, while three kilometres away there is the Moscow City business district, and the Zemelny has become a ‘green’ alternative to it.
The tower with a total area of 39000 m2 stands on a 3-floor stylobate and is “enwrapped” with a fishnet diagonal-lattice metal shell. The prototype of this structure is based on the hyperboloid creations by the engineer Shukhov, the author of the Shukhov Radio Tower in Moscow.
The project consists in converting an industrial warehouse into a space with two main uses: 1) temporary accommodation specifically conceived for groups of people 2) organisation and promotion of events (cultural, social, marketing, etc.).
The initial strategy was to try to combine these two realities by creating a set of common areas for the living space with strong character and materiality in order to serve both situations.
Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) is an energy company focused on development and operation of power plants in India. SEL is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources PLC. It is headquartered in India and wanted their new facility to communicate a clear sense of reliability for the country within a co-existential environment which they believe is a key to sustainable tomorrow. One of the key client briefs was to communicate this transparent sense of reliability which strengthens their systems and helps preserve diversities within the organization.
The alternation of transparency and opacity on the façade provides the double function of protection and perception of the external space.
A blade of glass and steel, resembling a prow pointing north-west, acts as the fulcrum of the Accenture People Hub building’s architectural composition, one of Accenture’s offices in Italy, a project by Park Associati for Milanofiori Sviluppo (Gruppo Brioschi Sviluppo Immobiliare). Comprising fifteen floors above ground and covering a surface of approximately 31,500 square metres, this building is one of the most notable achievements of the Milanofiori Nord sector in Assago.
BSH headquarters is located in Shaoxing city, it designed by the Greater Dog Architects. The main building called é é é that emerged in the city by its unique quality. é é é is a comprehensive functional building integrating retail space, office, restaurants, R&D and production, and sightseeing factory.
BSH focuses on bedding products which are from high quality goose down. It finished from a series of production processes of raw materials – cleaning – processing – inspection – filling – labeling. The white linear structure language of building is inspired by the characteristics of “goose down”.