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.
