March 5, 2013
Project: Banc Sabadell Headquarters
Architect: Bach Arquitectes
Location: Barcelona, Spain
The new headquarters for Barcelona’s Banc Sabadell is located in a former industrial park. Taking the place of an expansive factory building, the new corporate center for the bank was planned as an object in a garden, connecting people with nature. The main offices are grouped into a charcoal cube, pierced with large windows. Supporting programs including the cafeteria, auditorium, gymnasium, and infirmary are sunken below ground level, preserving the public green space that extends throughout the site.
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Images courtesy Adrià Goula Photo
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March 1, 2013
Project: Autodesk Milan
Architect: Goring & Straja Architects
Location: Milan, Italy
The new Italian offices of multinational software giant Autodesk blend traditional elements and contemporary flair, all while showcasing the best of Italian industrial design. Architects Goring & Straja entirely refurbished an existing condominium space into a LEED Gold-certified, sustainable office by providing excellent natural light, energy-efficient fixtures, and by employing environmentally-friendly finishes.
The enormous 850-square meter office space is broken up into multiple volumes on several levels to maintain an intimate office atmosphere. A long, central wall organizes the space, and is hand-finished with Venetian Plasterwork—a traditional Italian masonry technique in which many micro-thin coats of plaster mixed with marble dust are layered and polished to a shimmering, stone-like finish.
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Images courtesy Luc Boegly Photographe
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June 8, 2011
Apple, for all its iconic stores, has never built a properly architect-ed headquarters. That’s set to change: Steve Jobs presented plans for a 12,000-employee campus in Cupertino at a local City Council meeting yesterday. Said Jobs of the iconic scheme, “Architecture students will come here to see this.”
We assumed the radial form was most likely the work of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, who design most of Apple’s stores. But this morning, they told us that they’re “just as curious” to find out who the architects are. Our second guess was Bjarke Ingels Group, since the renderings are similar to their renderings for recent commission National Gallery of Greenland. Yet, BIG’s Copenhagen office denied any involvement. In 2010, a report in a Spanish paper claimed that Foster + Partners had been hired by Apple for the commission, which spread across the web. UPDATE: We’re hearing from inside sources that the as-yet-officially-unconfirmed-rumors are true and it’s Sir Norman Foster and team.
So, whose work is this?
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