This office building rises from its surroundings with a distinctive exterior; a shell structure of intertwined wooden elements, covering a transparent structure of glass and steel.  Transparency and lightness make the essential ingredients of the formal concept.


The bended wooden diamond elements, sprouting from balconies, enter in a dialogue with the textile membrane that helps the building integrate in the surrounding landscape and protects the construction from bad weather conditions and excessive exposure to the sun. 


Natural illumination penetrates the building from all sides and enhances the visual impact of the internal volumes, the different textures and materials that are used, guaranteeing a crisp visual cleanliness.

"IMPLUVIUM OF LIGHT"

The project is basically composed of a large cube is built on top of a podium and flanked by two courtyards.

The parking areas, archives and Data Processing Center are accommodated in this podium.  Offices are arranged inside the cube on seven floors around the central interior courtyard.

 



The project for the advertising agency Alazraki KP consists of two buildings constructed at different stages. The first one was conceived as a radical intervention of an existing building by transforming its use and image, while respecting the existing structure.


The building is located facing a high speed road that contains a central sidewalk lined with tall trees. Thus the project proposes a new red body housing the lobby that forms a portico framing the ‘green’ area and that folds itself to announce the agency’s logo.

Here is another innovative project by dutch architects of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. CCTV will be one among many towers in Beijing’s new Central Business District, all striving to be unique – all different expressions of the vertical dimension.

The tragedy of the skyscraper is that it marks a place as significant, which it then occupies and exhausts with banality… This banality is twofold: in spite of their potential to be incubators of new cultures, programs, and ways of life, most towers accommodate merely routine activity, arranged according to predictable patterns. Formally, their expressions of verticality have proven to stunt the imagination: as verticality soars, creativity crashes.

© All photographs courtesy of CCTV/OMA Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren photographed by Iwan Baan.

 
When leading UK eco architects, Architype, grew out of their old office they decided that their new West of England office would be a model of sustainable workplace practice and contemporary design.


In 2007 Architype was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ prestigious National Sustainability Award for the recently completed new office building, a resounding endorsement of their achievement. Architype was also named Building Magazine’s Sustainable Architect of the Year 2007.

Architype required a property in the West of England that could accommodate an expanding office staff of 17 (the practice also supports a 20 strong office in London).

Photographs courtesy of Leigh Simpson

MulvannyG2 Architecture for designed this 31-story tower as a landmark building for the city of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.


It serves as the headquarters for a regional power company the Fujian Provincial Electric and Power Company, and includes a 22-story high communications tower.

 

All pictures are courtesy of Shen zhong hai

 

The Deloitte Headquarters is Denmark’s largest open office building. Designed by 3XN, it is situated opposite the recreational area of Stadsgraven waters by Langebro, close to city, Ørestad and the Metro.


A common urban masterplan controls three buildings, of which Deloitte is the largest. They present themselves as solitary volumes on the edge between land and water.

This impressive project is located in TianJin, a city perched on the estuary of The Haihe River, and considered as the eastern gate of Beijing in China.

The city, which has a rich history that goes back for several centuries, contemplates the future with high expectations and infinite boundaries.