Article source: Wiel Arets Architects

This new building is an office for Schwäbisch Media (Swabian Media), a publishing company active in many facets of traditional and new media. Six protruding glass-walled cubes define and compose the project, with their proportions and dimensions based on the surrounding traditional German fachwerk villas in the city of Ravensburg. These six working areas have been stacked on top of a transparent ground floor, through which access is afforded to each, creating a new urban typology in the center of this medieval city. As the company’s activities were previously scattered throughout the Upper Swabia region, this building brings all 350 employees under one roof.

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• Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
• Project: Schwabisch Media
• Location: Ravensburg, Germany
• Type Of Project: Office Building, Headquarters
• Client: Schwäbischer Verlag GmbH & Co KG
• Tender date: 2008
• Start on site date: 2009
• Completion date: 2013
• Gross internal floor area: 13500 m2
• Form of contract and/or procurement: General planning contract
• Total cost: € 24.000.000
• Any specific environmental targets eg. Passivhaus, BREEAM, C4SH: DGNB certification, Silver rated