Office Building
Commercial and institutional buildings designed for office work, from corporate towers to converted industrial spaces.
The Layercake: An Amsterdam Building Stacked From the Habits of Plantage and Oost
A raised volume frees the ground for an urban cave, then stacks gallery, lecture hall, workspace and a green roof facing a canal and a windmill.
Gustavo Penna Wraps an Accounting Firm's Corner Headquarters in Lagoa da Prata with 12 Kilometers of Brise-Soleil
In Lagoa da Prata, Minas Gerais, a prestressed concrete office tower sheds most of its columns and filters daylight through a continuous slatted skin.
Office Canopy of Architecture Retrofits a Tiled Shaoxing Block into an Open-Source Community Commune
In Shangyu's old city centre, a 4,416 m² renovation stacks a library, canteen, shops and kiosks into one porous public building.
ODA Raises a 155-Metre Tower from the Courtyard of Rotterdam's Historic Post Office
In central Rotterdam, ODA's POST tower rebuilds a 1920s post office's arches as a porous, balconied frame climbing 155 metres above a national monument.
Studio Krubka Folds a Butterfly Roof over a Courtyard Garden for a Thai Herbal Medicine Headquarters
In Bang Khae Nuea, on Bangkok's edge, a board-formed concrete office wraps a mossy rock garden and turns wellbeing into a daily walk.
Gets Architects Stacks a Home, Offices and a Warehouse into One Headquarters in South Jakarta
In Tebet, South Jakarta, CMM (H)Office layers a penthouse, workspace and storage under timber fins, planted terraces and a third-floor lap pool.
Herzog & de Meuron and PBDW Architects Restore Breuer's Madison Avenue Brutalist Icon as Sotheby's Headquarters
In New York, a near-invisible renovation strips out offices, restores Marcel Breuer's 1966 gallery plans and turns the former Whitney into a saleroom.
Atelier Z+ Builds a Temporary Office Around a Single Tree on Shanghai's Yangpu Waterfront
On Guangde Road in Yangpu, Shanghai, a two-storey bar of corrugated metal, brick and steel walkways treats temporary construction as a serious civic act.
DATA architectes and THINK TANK Stitch Eight Paris Buildings into One Mixed-Use Block on Rue La Fayette
A 10,300 m² retrofit in Paris keeps eight mismatched buildings, threads them with a glass stair tower and makes a cobbled courtyard its heart.
Atelier Ma_BIAD Lifts a 240-Metre Office Ring over a Forest Plaza for Midea in Shanghai
In Shanghai's Xi-Hongqiao district, a cable-stayed steel ring for 15,000 Midea staff floats on cores, freeing the ground for parks, courts and water.
Eller + Eller Wraps a Düsseldorf Office Campus for WPP in Germany's Largest Closed-Cavity Facade
At the gateway to Düsseldorf's Medienhafen, MIZAL stacks 2,500 workplaces behind a sealed glass skin, deep atria and stepped roof gardens.
MVA Raises a Ring-Shaped Office Disk on Three Grass Mounds over a Remediated Landfill near Zagreb
In Dubrovčan, northwest of Zagreb, a prestressed concrete slab on V-columns floats above new terrain, hiding production inside the hills it creates.
FAKT Wraps a Brandenburg Sports Clubhouse in a Japanese Engawa Raised Above the Flood Line
In Ketzin/Havel, a 432 m² timber changing pavilion sits on a flood-proof concrete plinth, ringed by a covered veranda that doubles as the grandstand.
SO&CO Threads a Concrete Headquarters onto a Two-Meter Flagpole Lot in Tokyo's Koenji
In Koenji, Tokyo, slender 300 mm columns and beams of varying depth let a four-level office follow its fragmented rooms instead of a rigid frame.
Tchoban Voss Architekten and Barcode Architects Gather Dresden's Scattered City Offices into One Stadtforum
On Dresden's Ferdinandplatz, a stone-gridded civic block with a bronze-finned crown wraps offices around two green courtyards and opens a new square.
KIP arhitekti Sets Three Planted Islands Inside Savin Sever's Heritage Printing House in Ljubljana
Halcom's 1,450 m² Ljubljana offices float curtained, plant-topped galleries free of a protected printing hall, letting the old structure stay in charge.
Office MI—JI Carves a Nine-Square Courtyard House out of a Bayside Melbourne Block
A bayside Melbourne house in block and brick, tied together by one pale blue steel band and split into four quadrants around planted courtyards.
ZIAD Twists Two Glass Office Slabs Around a Garden Atrium for Tiansong Headquarters in Wenling
In Wenling, Taizhou, Tiansong Headquarters pairs two stepped glass slabs with a public plaza and a timber-lined atrium where old town meets new district.
GROUP A Strips a 1969 Rotterdam Harbor Headquarters to Its Frame and Wraps It in Timber Louvers
In Rotterdam's M4H harbor district, Ferro Offices reuses a 1969 frame, adds one timber storey and reaches BREEAM-NL Outstanding.
A Parallel Architecture Turns an Abandoned East Austin Auto Parts Warehouse into a Courtyard Workplace
In East Austin's Cesar Chavez neighborhood, a kept concrete shell and a pecan-shaded courtyard turn a dead auto parts warehouse into offices.
