Trumpf Poland Technology Center, Warsaw

Trumpf Poland Technology Center

Design: Barkow Leibinger architects. New 3000sqm headquarters building with offices and exhibition areas. Gleaming laser-cut stainless steel fins cover the façades in a soft gradient.

Kyiv Office, Ukraine Work Space: Zotov&Co

Kyiv Office building

Design: Zotov&Co, architects. The main advantage is the separate exit door. Because the freedom is above everything. Сourtyard garden is an additional space for conference room as well as a place for rest. The architects were searching an office for rent, but everywhere interiors were decorated with laminate, wallpaper, plastic, trendy “peach” color. This space was not “spoiled” yet.

Blumenhaus in Zürich, Schiffbaustrasse: WAA

Blumenhaus

The Blumenhaus building design by Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) is an integral component of a larger effort by the city of Zürich to upgrade its Escher-Wyss district through a metamorphosis of new developments.

IGN and Météo France Geosciences Centre

IGN and Meteo France Geosciences Centre

Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger. This major renovation transforms a 1980’s block into a Very High Energy Performance building of 15,900 sqm area. The buildings are opened out through the creation of a new shared garden.

Zalando Headquarters Berlin-Friedrichshain building

Zalando Headquarters Berlin-Friedrichshain

The new Zalando Headquarters building design by HENN groups two new buildings in the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The seven-storey buildings provide 42,000 sqm of office space for the largest European online supplier of shoes and fashion goods.

Crew Offices and Café Montréal workspace

Crew Offices and Café Montréal workspace

Design: Henri Cleinge, architect. Located in a bank building on rue St-Jacques, the design includes 12,000 sqft office area, a café and space for freelance workers and the public. Two distinct design challenges were forming boundaries between program functions and the context of a heritage building.

Medibank Place in Melbourne

Medibank Place in Melbourne

Dynamic interior, a new head office in Melbourne’s Docklands, design by HASSELL, architects. The new workplace was part of a major cultural change program for Australia’s largest health insurer to live its purpose to the core and create better health outcomes for its members, employees and the community.

Shenzhen Luohu Friendship Trading Centre, Guangdong

Shenzhen Luohu Friendship Trading Centre

Architect: Aedas. Shenzhen Luohu Friendship Trading Centre is a redevelopment of a current department store to be renewed into a new skyscraper with a 7-storey retail podium at the heart of Luohu in China.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Headquarters Kastrup

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Kastrup HQ building

Design: Foster + Partners architects. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new country headquarters for Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S marked the start of construction of the 39,000 sqm company offices.

White Office Building in Tehran

White Office Building

Architects: BNS Studio. The White Office Building is located at one of the busiest street in shahrak-e-gharb, Tehran. The office complex comprises five levels of open office floors and one double height retail store at street level.

Hi-Tech Start-Up Incubator Shanghai

Hi-Tech Start-Up Incubator

Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen. The building is overclad, unifying existing rendered concrete facade with a corrugated and perforated PPC aluminium skin. Shading is provided to every workspace whilst optimising both view and daylight via the perforated aluminium facade.

The Wool Resource Centre Hong Kong

The Wool Resource Centre

Architects: HASSELL. The Wool Resource Centre includes a library, a showroom and an events space for visitors to develop and enhance their education on wool. There are six separate zones including open-plan workspaces, a meeting room and an auditorium.

MediaCityUK Expansion at Salford Quays building

MediaCityUK

Design: Chapman Taylor Architects. MediaCityUK to double in size with ten new buildings in a development of over £1 billion: major new offices, BBC production facilities and studios, a hotel, University of Salford building, an energy centre, plus retail and catering facilities.

Jiefangbei Book City: Xinhua Bookstore

Jiefangbei Book City in Chongqing

Design: Aedas, architects

An interesting concoction, a far cry from the simple podium and tower of Lever House in New York! The tower form widens out at its base into a fluid series of verdant balconies. Below this a golden ‘slab’ floats above a lower, amorphic base that ripples along the street.