The project, located in a verdant part of the city of Fukuoka, makes the most of its client’s expertise to create a fascinating timber structure that elegantly showcases what wood construction can achieve. Maruhon, a Japanese manufacturer of natural wood for interiors, has just unveiled its latest office and showroom, designed by architect Takenori Katori and his Tokyo-based team. Maruhon, Fukuoka, Japan Takenori Katori / Katori archi+design associates ‘The design responds to the contemporary move towards designing offices that are collaborative rather than cellular,’ explain the architects. The open floorplan adds to the steamlined look and directs the gaze towards the long views of the London skyline afforded by the windows. Now, this piece of Grade II* listed modernist architecture includes a brand new warm and minimalist office interior, courtesy of ConForm Architects. Sat on the high rise’s 11th floor and occupied by a financial client, the workspace is sleek and contemporary but at the same time, the minimalist architecturefeels homely and inviting, creating a comfortable, almost domestic working environment. Smithson Tower office, UK ConForm ArchitectsĬentral London is chock-full of iconic architecture, but few buildings represent the brutalist style better than the iconic Smithson Tower – previously known as the Economist Building – which was designed in the early 1960s by Alison and Peter Smithson.
The studio has carved a reputation as a deft hand at balancing drama and subtlety, the hardness of concrete with soft, plastic forms. This is the third structure that the Swiss architecture studio, located in nearby Basel, has designed for the healthcare multinational – but it’s one that stands out for its minimalist expression and cool, almost painterly nature. Roche’s multifunctional workspace building follows the architects’ signature approach and aesthetic that blends the use of seamless, scuptural concrete with pared down forms and supreme functionality. The building, carefully tuned to balance the generous, no-nonsense attitude and durability of an industrial building and the cutting-edge, sleek feel of contemporary office architecture, is the creation of Christ & Gantenbein.
Roche Pharmaceuticals, Germany Christ & GantenbeinĪn ‘industrial palazzo’ has been added to the growing campus of Roche pharmaceuticals in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, near the Swiss border.
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