The Monueal Headquarter Building | Jeju | South Korea | H Architecture

The Monueal Headquarter Building in Jeju, South Korea required a futuristic yet practical design that incorporated several programs and different phases of construction.

The unique program included office, research and development, testing facilities, and dormitories. The Jeju context involves a rich cultural heritage as well as a strict code to avoid hindering the image of the beautiful, unique landscapes of the island.

The design stems from analysing the modern sleek products of Monueal as well as the client’s vision of a circular ‘spaceship’ like form. The result is a building shell pivoting around a central outdoor space. Each building revolves around the central space, being planned and developed in phases. The radial form is connected by a Digital Gallery where occupants can experience the Monueal brand and image.......more

Headquarters Design | General Society of Authors and Publishers Headquarters | Santiago | Chile | Ensamble

The SGAE (General Society of Authors and Publishers) Central Office in Santiago de Compostela, is located in Vista Alegre property, a privileged site with intermediate scale between a private garden and a public green area, from where the skyline of the historical city can be glimpsed. The project for the development of the plot was designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, and contemplated the construction of a series of buildings with academic purpose, most of them already built. The SGAE Central Office situated in the west limit of the site completes the intervention in Vista Alegre and defines its boundaries.

The architectural conception of the building incorporates the spirit of the city of Santiago developing a singular identity and entering a dialog with the history and memory of the place, as well as a close relationship with contemporary artistic language.

The program includes not only social activities for the attendance of authors and publishers, but also a wide range of public cultural activities. It is divided into four functional areas distributed in four levels respectively: Diffusion, Formation, Public Area and Management, with accesses from the garden and the street. Three thousand square metres in total constructed to serve the city and its artists...........more

New Main Headquarters | Insurance Company PGGM | Zeist | Holland | Mateo Arquitectura

In the surroundings of the city of Zeist, near Utrecht, the competition was about the need to increase in 25.000 sqm of office space the existing building. At the same time, the project had to solve the parking garage for 1000 cars so that to retrieve a green park.
The project makes the connection between the context and the neighbouring cloister type building, so that to keep the compacity of the volume that helps on the growing logics of the building.......more

IBM World Headquarters | Manhattan | Klein Dytham Architecture

Nestled within a landscape of 450 wooded, rocky acres some 50 miles from Manhattan, the IBM World Headquarters exemplifies KPF’s demonstrated ability to respond to the natural context and produce an innovative work of architecture. Completed in 1997, the headquarters is the centerpiece of an existing corporate campus in this wooded setting with deep ravines slicing through the landscape.
Designed to interact with its natural surroundings as much as possible, the building has a generous provision of controlled natural light and excellent views out to the landscape and open terraces for relaxation and informal meetings.......more

O2 Headquarters | Slough | United Kingdom | TP Bennet

The commission, won through a design competition, to design a new link building and heart for the O2 campus in Slough, drew on tp bennett’s strengths in architecture, interior design and planning. The project also included the fit-out of a newly-constructed office building and the refurbishment of an existing building. Though driven by the functional need to form a connection between these buildings, the link building has an identity of its own and provided an opportunity for O2 to reflect its brand values and to create an enjoyable and responsive workplace for 2,000 staff. The 63m long, three storey link block is deliberately sculptural in form and reflects the “bold, open, clear” brand......more

Basque Health Department Headquarters | Bilboa | Spain | Coll Barreu Arquitectos

The new Basque Health Department headquarters is located at the last site that still remained unbuilt on the administrative and Business Center of Bilbao. Up to now, the institution was suffering the spread of its staff in several buildings, hardly recognizable by citizens, away from each other and uncomfortable for both users and technical services. The aim of the new building is bringing together staff in a recognizable place, in order to increase the efficiency of the service and identify easily the corporation. The project at the same time involves both economic and property profits.........more

New Headquarters of Group Azahar | Castellón | Spain | Office Of Architecture In Barcelona

Azahar is a group of companies related to Sustainability and Environment, devoted to topics such as waste recycling, landscaping, plant cover, among others.
The headquarters that will host this set of companies is located in an area of 5.6 ha next to the N-340 in Castellon de la Plana.
The project contemplates three actions: a building of corridors of 5 m repeated fifty times with a sloping deck, favoring the ventilation is cutting contour adjusting to the slope and increase the height as the gap and use of space (costumes, work area, machinery, warehouses, garages, etc.).........more

New Facade Design | H20 Headquarters | Barcelona | Spain | Axis Mundi Design

Axis Mundi was retained to propose a facade retrofit for H2O which is a new bottled water company that has ambitious plans to distinguish their innovative brand.
The existing six-story building is situated on a busy intersection in Barcelona, close to Antonio Gaudi's residential masterpiece — the Casa Mila.

The concept for the new facade is based on the interference patterns that are created by the flow of water surfaces. In physics, interference is the addition (superposition) of two or more waves that result in a new wave pattern.........more

Corporate Headquarters Design | Giant Interactive Group Corporate Headquarters | Shanghai | China | Morphosis

The Giant Campus project is a compact village that accommodates diverse functions in a flexible framework of forms that move in and out of a folded landscape plane. Situated amid existing canals and a new man made lake, the undulating office building interacts with an augmented ground plane, joining architecture to landscape and environment to site. The East Campus office building contains three zones: open, non-hierarchical office space; private offices, and executive suites, which cantilever dramatically over the lake......more

Swedbank’s New International Headquarters | 3XN

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The new Headquarters will be one of Sweden’s most modern and innovative office buildings - focusing on transparency, Scandinavian simplicity and dynamic social environments. Behind the project is the Danish Architect 3XN in collaboration with Humlegården Fastigheter, representing the property owner Länsförsäkringar Liv. By the end of 2013 no less than 2.500 co-workers will move into the innovative building at Sundbyberg Stad near Stockholm. The Headquarters is designed by the Danish studio 3XN with direct reference to Swedbank’s core values; openness, simplicity, care and durability. 3XNs Principal Kim Herforth Nielsen explains:- The building is conceived and designed from the inside out. We have literally translated Swedbank’s core values into the creation of a modern and groundbreaking head office. Swedbank has conveyed the importance it places on creating an open social environment, which happens to coincide with 3XNs design beliefs and ideology. It has been a very interesting process and we look forward to getting to work on the project.With its innovative and transparent expression formed in an unconventional triple-v structure the building will become a landmark among Swedish office buildings. The large volume is broken up to create spaces on a human scale. This makes the building inviting on the inside as well as on the outside.The new head office is situated at Sundbyberg; a rapidly developing and dynamic traffic centre five kilometers outside the centre of Stockholm. 3XN is currently working on a number of other projects in and around Stockholm:- At the moment there is a really good energy in the Swedish building industry. We can also feel a great interest for Danish architecture as we are building a high rise residential building in Vällingby and we have other exciting projects on the way, says Kim Herforth Nielsen of 3XN.The construction of Swedbank’s new head office is expected to be finished by the end of 2013

European Solidarity Center | Gdansk,Poland | ONL

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Transforming the star. The pentagonal shape of the site for the ESC has seduced our design team to connect the corners of the site as to form an a-symmetrical 5 pointed star. By categorically lifting up two point of the star and leaving the third at ground floor level, we discovered a strong spatial image for the ESC. Braking the symmetrical rigidity of the communist red star, and replacing it by a set of 5 connected tetrahedron shaped pyramids, we transformed the star shape and gave it a new meaning.

Design: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
Design team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Rafael Seemann, Paulina Seemann, Marta Szaban, Tomasz Krzempek, Michal Górczynski, Lukasz Pluta
Site: Gdansk, Poland
Date: 2007

Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus | Philadelphia, USA | Meyer Scherer and Rockcastle

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Previously scattered across downtown, Urban Outfitters' 650 employees now occupy 5 buildings in Philadelphia's historic Navy Yard. Reminicent of its shipbulding heydays the campus mirrors the fashion retailers' culture.Designed and constructed withing 20 months the project sparked waterfront development.
330,000 sf.
Text from:Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle
Photographs:Lara Swimmer

Waterways of France | VNF Headquarters | France, 2008 | ODILE DECQ BENOIT+CORNETTE

Construction of the head office of VNF on the Invalids Quay, Paris
1240 M2
Competition
ODILE DECQ BENOIT+CORNETTE

Denizli Municipality,Denizli, Turkey | Superpool

The landscape of the Denizli Municipality Headquarters is designed as a series of public meeting spaces. In this landscape of urban interaction, the role of the building is to define a zone of enclosures; the main entrance, foyer, city parliament, auditorium, exhibition hall, and library.

These spaces of public representation are the ornaments of the building, which is intentionally kept simple in its mass; a 20 m wide bar optimized for office environments with natural light.

Thus the proposal is an attempt to create monumentality not through architectural detailing but through programming and exposure of the ‘ground’ level; the most accessible therefore important part of any building.

The aim is incorporating the life of the city’s most vital plaza with its most vital function, self-governing.

Team:

Selva Gürdoğan, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Marta Marszal, Jonathan Alexander, Yasemin Darbaz, Carsten Dittus, Matthias Jacob, Rance Mok

Type: Competition

Size: 29.700 m2

Collaborators: APCB, AKIM, Esan Muhendislik

Location: Denizli, Turkey

Status: Settled

Text and images from:Superpool

ARCA -Regler GmbH Tonisvorst, Germany | Anin Jeromin Fitilidis & Partner

The new building of the German company ARCA-Regler GmbH is situated along a former railway line amidst a residential topology, which bears the stamp of villages. It combines a production area of about 1600 sqm and an office area of about 500 sqm. The objective was to create a building - other than the usual industrial buildings with a mostly low-priced warehouse made of gas concrete - that is accepted in the (residential) neighborhood and at the same time emphasizes the company's identity through its formal language and ecological pretensions.

The required building floor of about 2100 sqm has been developed as two-story-high long building being molded out of the grassed area surrounding it. Like a wide belt the facade winds its way into the terrain. The front glass building houses the office premises whereas the metallic building behind accommodates the development and production rooms. A zone for staircase and sanitary facilities separates both building parts.

The facade of the management area is a double-skin where the outside glass skin with a printing degree of 55 % is designed to keep out solar radiation to a large extent. Since printing intensity varies and is the less at eye level, the office premises look extremely transparent and allow a good view outward. The zone behind the second glass skin is accessible and offers the employees all the year round a weatherproof zone for taking their breaks.

The demand of the building owner to use resource-saving energy sources for an industrial building is not self-evident at all. However, this new building is operated with regenerative energies, only. The entire cooling capacity and the largest fraction of heating capacity for the new building is supplied by a field of geothermal probes without the need of further energy expenses.
Teaxt and images from:Anin Jeromin Fitilidis & Partner