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We are truly proud of the new Canon Production Printing offices. The first employees are moving this summer into the new headquarters, nicknamed: ‘Green Landmark.’ You can directly see this iconic and sustainable building in its forested surroundings from far away. Norbert van Onna The new building rises above this beautiful natural environment of the Venlo region – home base of the company. From the A67 highway you can easily see the new offices. This is due to the powerful rhythm that we incorporated into the glazed facade. But also the big and noticeable red logo of Canon on the top garners attention. In the new headquarters everything is about a natural and well-lit work environment. Once you enter inside you can... More

ADP has completed the Sir William Henry Bragg Building at the University of Leeds. The new centre for Engineering and Physical Sciences is designed to support cutting edge research in areas including robotics and AI, through exemplary facilities, as well as enhance the student experience and opportunities for collaboration. Surrounded by newly landscaped public realm, the high-tech centre also incorporates a Grade II listed heritage building, creating an impressive new gateway to the campus. Paul Karalius The Sir William Henry Bragg Building is a major milestone within the wider campus masterplan - also by ADP – which is set to establish Leeds as one of the UK’s top ten research universities. Named after a former Nobel Pri... More

Park Pivot is a new 1000 Sqm mixed use building located at the heart of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and forms part of the developing residential district of East Wick and Sweetwater. The design solution required a sensitive urban approach given its close proximity to the prominent Copper Box Arena building and the emerging residential blocks of East Wick and Sweetwater phase I. Caption The new building is inspired by the Market Hall typology found in many historical towns across the UK. These relatively small structures sit confidently in their context defining public space and routes around them while providing active frontages and civic presence. Caption In a similar manner the new building aims to create a ‘new place&r... More

SPPARC's Southworks sets a benchmark for future developments as we look to a 
safe and social return to the office. Smart office scheme Southworks in central London, which has been named as “the smartest office in the world,” has now completed. Developed by MiddleCap and designed by SPPARC, the scheme brings together technological and natural features to form a landmark post-pandemic, future-proofed office. Sustainability and wellbeing are prioritised to create an optimum space for companies, employees and the environment.  Ed Reeve The seven-storey, 70,000 sq ft scheme was recently named as the world’s smartest building at the Futureproof Awards and became the first UK building to achieve the Smart Building C... More

This speculative office development was secured through an architectural competition win for Legal and General, which is leased, managed and maintained by Newcastle City Council.  The building, a 9,300sqm NIA with A1 / A3 use at ground floor, has been designed so that each floor can be split in to three tenant domains if required.  This was the first significant A grade office building to be built in Newcastle city centre since the mid 1990s. Graeme Peacock The building provides modern workspace for over 1,200 people in the science, technology and knowledge based sectors. Graeme Peacock It is designed to British Council for Office standards with a ratio of occupancy of one person per 8sqm NIA, and to BREEAM Excellent w... More

Occupying a place of prominence in Warsaw’s city centre between John Paul II Avenue and Grzybowska street Q22’s stealth profile redefines the city skyline while serving Warsaw’s growing body of global professionals.Q22 rises 155 metres in height and includes a 15 story annex which connects the tower with the scale and fabric of the city. Designed to provide evolving space requirements for growing firms the structural core has been offset allowing an open floor plate which dramatically increases space-planning flexibility and offers quieter perimeter offices with panoramic views. In order to further maximise floor space, the main structural system uses composite columns, which are narrower than conventional columns, enablin... More

In historical Amsterdam, the office building De Walvis on Bickerseiland has been stripped down to its bones and completely revitalised by KAAN Architecten. The client MaarsenGroep requested a "hip and industrial feel"that would leave everyonein awe and fit with their envisaged future tenants from the advertising, media, and tech sector. Confident interventions in the structure have resulted in a sleek and elegant sculptural form. De Walvis is a building with a history. It was part of Amsterdam's urbanisation project of the early 1960s, forced upon local residents despite their protests. Property developer F.H. Gaus announced that Bickerseiland would become a Little Manhattan. Ultimately, this became a turning point in municipal planning po... More

Schindler’s head office has a symbolic dimension as a polygon, reflecting the group’s logo. It is designed to accommodate more than 200 people and affirm the identity of the headquarters to all visitors. Composed of 5 floors, the building aims to create a more agile and connected environment for all its employees. The headquarter has been designed to be as open to the outside as possible, representing the company’s values of openness and transparency. Sustainability is given a special place at the head office, as the building obtained the double certification HQE Excellent and BREEAM Excellent. Bamboo plays a definite role in this classification, in total it allows the storage of 25126.52 kg of CO2, which is comparable to... More

The new headquarters of RCC, one of the world’s leading producers of copper, reimagines the conventional cellular office to set new standards in quality, comfort and flexibility. RCC Headquarters in Ekaterinburg has officially opened. The practice’s first office building in Russia, the building reimagines the conventional cellular office to set new standards in quality, comfort and flexibility. The 15-storey building’s innovative modular office units are enveloped in an energy efficient enclosure, which provides a distinctive symbol for the organisation in Ekaterinburg. RCC is one of the world’s leading producers of copper and the triangulated form draws inspiration from the chemical structure of copper. The crown... More

Fellenoord 15 in Eindhoven is a redevelopment of the former Rabobank office building. The renovated building is characterised by sustainability and is for example not connected to natural gas but equipped with heat and cold storage and solar panels. It received the BREEAM Excellent certificate. Fellenoord 15 wants to be an example for the new circular economy. Anodised aluminium by Alumet is also characterised by sustainability. Anodised aluminium has an expected life span of over 80 years, is durable, corrosionresistant and colourfast. Moreover it is easy to clean. The approximately 850m2 of lamellae were anodised by Alumet in the colour AluCopper1. The lamellae are all placed under a different angle, creating a spectacular view of (sun)li... More

Located in Paris La Défense, Trinity is a 32-story tower, built ex nihilo on a concrete slab poured above a seven-lane roadway, a first in France. A major feat of civil engineering, the slab is planted, providing 3,500 square meters of landscaped public space and linking the previously disconnected neighborhoods of the CNIT (National Center of Industries and Techniques) and Coupole-Regnault: a concrete solution for enhancing the quality of life of its users on an urban scale. Trinity is La Défense’s first tower to develop an offset core, yielding a “heart of life” with exterior glass-walled elevators running along the façade. Diverging from the traditional office building format, Trinity is a tower con... More

tp bennett has completed a new 14-storey office building at 80 Fenchurch Street to the south-east of the City of London. Developed by YardNine and Partners Group, EightyFen provides 240,000 sq ft of prime office space, along with 12,500 sq ft of high-quality retail space. The imposing solid Portuguese limestone façade has playful projecting, flush and recessed windows, which step inwards as EightyFen rises above the surrounding streetscape and adjacent listed buildings. The lower projecting windows articulate this historic streetscape and create the opportunity for sideways views from and light to the lower floors. The site is conceptually divided into nine 15 x 15 m structural bays rising from the ground to create an articulated s... More

Amare, the new performing arts centre in The Hague, will become the beating cultural heart of The Hague in 2021. The building will provide accommodation for the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), The Hague Philharmonic, the Royal Conservatoire and Stichting Dans - en Muziekcentrum Den Haag (DMC). The new building will replace the old Lucent Dance Theatre, designed by OMA, and the Dr. Anton Philipszaal. NOAHH has designed the performing arts centre as an expressive, multifunctional building that draws on state-of-the-art practices to create a social space that works in perfect synergy with its surroundings. The typology is based on an arrangement of the venues next to each other, surrounded by a ring of music studios and classrooms. The ground f... More