10 office buildings that change the way you work
10/05/2021.
New ways, new spaces
metalocus, RAMIRO ISAURRALDE
metalocus, RAMIRO ISAURRALDE
Since the beginning of the last century (and even since the end of the 19th century), the predominance of the tertiary sector has been consolidating at a global level in the world's most developed economies, and to a lesser extent, in developing ones. At present, this implies that millions of people, every day, spend a large part of their time in office spaces, a concept that has been mutating over time, as well as the activities they host.
Consequently, these spaces must be able to provide certain benefits that optimize that time and allow a fluid development of their work activities, without neglecting the variables of socialization and collaboration that, gradually, have been gaining a privileged place on the agenda of the designers.
From METALOCUS we have selected 10 office projects that illustrate how architecture can change the way of working, designed by BabelStudio, ENORME Studio, MVRDV, SelgasCano, Cano Lasso Architects, Studio Velocity, BUREAU, Koto Design, José Costa and IttenBrechbühl.
Consequently, these spaces must be able to provide certain benefits that optimize that time and allow a fluid development of their work activities, without neglecting the variables of socialization and collaboration that, gradually, have been gaining a privileged place on the agenda of the designers.
From METALOCUS we have selected 10 office projects that illustrate how architecture can change the way of working, designed by BabelStudio, ENORME Studio, MVRDV, SelgasCano, Cano Lasso Architects, Studio Velocity, BUREAU, Koto Design, José Costa and IttenBrechbühl.
Oslo Cowork by BabelStudio. Photography by Biderbost Photo
Oslo Cowork by BabelStudio. Photography by Biderbost Photo
Oslo Cowork by BabelStudio. Photography by Biderbost Photo
Oslo Cowork by BabelStudio. Photography by Biderbost Photo
Office for Xeito Investments by ENORME Studio. Photography by Javier de Paz García.
Office for Xeito Investments by ENORME Studio. Photography by Javier de Paz García.
Office for Xeito Investments by ENORME Studio. Photography by Javier de Paz García.
MVRDV House by MVRDV. Photography by Kantoor MVRDV © Ossip – (c) Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV House by MVRDV. Photography by Kantoor MVRDV © Ossip – (c) Ossip van Duivenbode
MVRDV House by MVRDV. Photography by Kantoor MVRDV © Ossip – (c) Ossip van Duivenbode
Campus Hollywood of Second Home by SelgasCano. Photography by Iwan Baan
Campus Hollywood of Second Home by SelgasCano. Photography by Iwan Baan
Campus Hollywood of Second Home by SelgasCano. Photography by Iwan Baan
Second Home London Fields by Cano Lasso Architects. Photography by Iwan Baan
Second Home London Fields by Cano Lasso Architects. Photography by Iwan Baan
Second Home London Fields by Cano Lasso Architects. Photography by Iwan Baan
Office in Sanno by Studio Velocity. Photography courtesy of Studio Velocity
Office in Sanno by Studio Velocity. Photography courtesy of Studio Velocity
Office in Sanno by Studio Velocity. Photography courtesy of Studio Velocity
BUREAU Office by BUREAU. Photography by Dylan Perrenoud
BUREAU Office by BUREAU. Photography by Dylan Perrenoud
BUREAU Office by BUREAU. Photography by Dylan Perrenoud
Koto work cabin. Koto X Newartcentre - Workspace by Koto Design. Photography by Edvinas Bruzas
Koto work cabin. Koto X Newartcentre - Workspace by Koto Design. Photography by Edvinas Bruzas
Koto work cabin. Koto X Newartcentre - Workspace by Koto Design. Photography by Edvinas Bruzas
Wayco Ruzafa extension by José Costa. Photography by Mariela Apollonio
Wayco Ruzafa extension by José Costa. Photography by Mariela Apollonio
Wayco Ruzafa extension by José Costa. Photography by Mariela Apollonio
Scott Sports by IttenBrechbühl. Photography by Simon Ricklin
Scott Sports by IttenBrechbühl. Photography by Simon Ricklin
Scott Sports by IttenBrechbühl. Photography by Simon Ricklin
Although it might sound obvious, office spaces have not always taken into account basic issues related to the quality and comfort of the workplace. Historically, these spaces attacked the worker in various ways, compromising on many occasions their physical and mental health.
And although today reality is not far from the tradition and priorities of a strongly capitalist work context, new variables have been incorporated into the system that consider the complete experience of the employee, in pursuit of the creation of quality, comfortable spaces, illuminated and ventilated, where also, in many cases, it is the work area itself that is reduced compared to other leisure and rest areas for staff.
At present, when we are still in the fight to go through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has tormented us since the end of 2019, we can already begin to see some consequences of this crisis, which has led to rethink many of the spaces of the daily life. Offices, or work spaces, were precisely one of the aspects most addressed from the moment we were forced to combine our personal and professional lives in the spaces of our homes.
The ten examples collected here address in different ways the problems that mainstream the design and planning of workspaces, proposing coherent and innovative solutions that re-signify the concept of office.
And although today reality is not far from the tradition and priorities of a strongly capitalist work context, new variables have been incorporated into the system that consider the complete experience of the employee, in pursuit of the creation of quality, comfortable spaces, illuminated and ventilated, where also, in many cases, it is the work area itself that is reduced compared to other leisure and rest areas for staff.
At present, when we are still in the fight to go through the COVID-19 pandemic, which has tormented us since the end of 2019, we can already begin to see some consequences of this crisis, which has led to rethink many of the spaces of the daily life. Offices, or work spaces, were precisely one of the aspects most addressed from the moment we were forced to combine our personal and professional lives in the spaces of our homes.
The ten examples collected here address in different ways the problems that mainstream the design and planning of workspaces, proposing coherent and innovative solutions that re-signify the concept of office.
This compact space designed in Bilbao by BABELstudio manages to concentrate in just 39 sqm a larger work environment that is perceived at first glance thanks to the materials and finishes chosen by the authors, but even more so because of the large central nucleus that contains the service functions, but simultaneously creating a double height work area, which opens onto the main room.
At the same time, the removable furniture designed for the office allows a considerable flexibility of uses and occupancy capacity, increasing or decreasing the operative areas as required.
This multipurpose space located in Madrid and designed by ENORME Studio, takes another path in relation to the concept of flexibility, which as we can already begin to glimpse, is one of the leitmotifs that will lead the changes in new office designs.
On the one hand, the project aims to eliminate, almost completely, the closed offices, traditionally associated with the idea of concentration, replacing them with a wide and single open space, made up of a perimeter circle of desks with views to the outside, and a circle concentric of smaller size, delimited by a textile enclosure capable of unfolding or retracting as required, thus creating different spatialities and partial compartments (the translucency of the material prevents the space from being perceived as closed) that enable various uses: office, project showroom, place of exchange and events, among many others.
Finally, we also believe it is important to mention that even the most “rigid areas of the proposal”, such as the conference room or the meeting room, are defined by pivoting doors and folding carpentry that allow, occasionally, the transformation of the office in a completely unified and open space.
The work of MVRDV, headquartered in Rotterdam, has always been characterized by its eccentricity and innovation, both in formal and technological aspects, as well as in functional terms and spatial composition. That is why it is not surprising that, for the design of your own office, these characteristics were present in a work full of intense colors and multifunctional spaces everywhere.
Indeed, here the traditional image of the office covered with immaculate plaster white is left aside, opting for a palette of vibrant colors that identify and differentiate the spaces of the program. It is no longer the detailed design of the functional details that determines the use of the spaces, but MVRDV opts for indeterminacy and flexibility (yes, this concept again) as the elements that define this open office system.
Finally, two other aspects that deserve to be mentioned are, on the one hand, the large central corridor that divides the closed offices from the open work space, and which also has the possibility of becoming a large dining room for the studio staff, operating as a work or leisure space as needed; and the “room” for briefings, designed in nothing more and nothing less than the wide bleachers found in said corridor, which range from a rest space to a space for debate where to come up with the concept of the next assignment.
4. 6,500 trees and plants to transform a former car park. New Hollywood co-working space by SelgasCano
Closed, semi-covered, permeable and open workspaces. All this variety and more, from the hand of the Spanish architecture studio SelgasCano, with a co-working complex for the Hollywood Second Home company.
From the recovery of the Anne Banning Community House (Paul Williams) building and an old adjacent parking lot in the city of Los Angeles, this campus of almost 3,750 sqm combines a great diversity of design strategies that try to redefine the most domestic aspects of workspaces.
The studio presents, on the one hand, an enclosed space, a container for “traditional” offices, which as soon as we enter, we can assimilate with a visual arts exhibition room, topped by a ceiling that reminds us of an installation by Makoto Tanjiri . Its interior divisions (if they can be called that) try to replicate the forms designed for the exterior, creating various independent spaces delimited by colored thread curtains that allow them to mutate, expand or reduce, associate with other spaces or confine themselves.
On the other hand, and perhaps one of the aspects that best define the work, sixty ovoid capsules with acrylic enclosures and covered in a vibrant yellow that intertwine sinuously with the exuberant outdoor garden that surrounds them, and even seeps into the interior. old building, and that gives that pleasant feeling of working inserted (at least perceptually) in a natural environment.
Again we present a project made for Second Home, but this time brought by the Spanish studio Cano Lasso Architects.
On this occasion, the intense colors that define the functions of the program, the nature and flexibility of the spaces through mobile enclosures are once again present. In addition to this, and with the intention of providing visual continuity to the more defined work areas, the architects subtract circular surfaces from the enclosures, thus allowing a more direct interaction between employees and a greater relationship with the entire work environment.
On the other hand, one of the aspects that has stood out the most in this work addresses a very common problem in the workplace and that refers to the care of children during the hours their parents are working. Under the label of a "creative workspace for the family", a nursery and a games room were incorporated into the work that, in the words of the company's directors, tries to show how the building, through its architecture, it can support the responsibilities of those who work there.
Finally, the spaces mentioned in the previous section are added to other leisure and rest areas of the office, which are now beginning to compete, in terms of surface, with the areas planned to work (or at least those designed to work “traditionally ”).
Under the premise that a single deck is the container for a wide variety of indoor activities, the Japanese at Studio Velocity take the concept of open workspace to another level.
The 2018 project located in Okazaki, Japan, achieves in a single plant, creating different variants of the same space from variations in height, enclosures and encounters.
This work, with almost imperceptible outer limits, creates an interesting continuity between the outside, the actual work area and the internal courtyards of the building, with minimal section wooden columns that completely free up the interior space, finished off by the curved roof, which also acts as an expansion of the offices and acts as an outdoor rest area.
The new own offices projected in Lisbon by BUREAU, the studio founded by Daniel Zamarbide, are based on the premise of finding a new and better way of working for the office employees.
The architects conceive of this new space as "a generous base camp for rest in the heart of our beautiful Lisbon", revealing its positioning in the face of new ways of working, which is clearly reflected in the spatial proposal.
Almost as if it were a renewed and smaller-scale homage to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Wax offices, the central space is distributed around columns of large capitals that stand out for their pink color that contrasts with the clean white finishes of the enclosures.
“Those moments are what make the BUREAU a space, a place, a settlement, a room, a workshop, an office, a living room, a disco, a research laboratory, a dining room, a lobby, a place where we try to discover how to work better."
Inaugurated in 2020 during the pandemic, the building focuses on (internal) mobility as an alternative and response to the confinement and forced immobility that afflict us until today, rethinking the typology based on new encounters between the collective and the individual, giving place to whatever, all spaces enable rest, work and informal meetings.
The UK-based studio, Koto Design, has designed a cabin for home office, as part of its wide repertoire of modules and pre-fab cabins.
This proposal not only takes into account the spatial variables to create a comfortable work environment, but, as it is marketed as a modular system, it allows those who require a simple and functional work area attached to their home (as has been stated in evidence during confinement), an architectural quality option with the necessary flexibility to be able to be re-functionalized in the future.
This soberly designed workspace addresses a problem that intensified exponentially during the pandemic, which is the difficult task of balancing daily life and work at home in a healthy way, especially in those cases (probably most of them) in those who do not have a place in the home where they can comfortably fulfill their work obligations.
Unlike other proposals presented here, the intention of the authors is not to open themselves directly to the surrounding environment, but rather the opposite, providing a single window in the volume, prioritizing the ideas of contemplation and individual reflection as axes of the proposal.
This intervention by José Costa in Valencia consists of an extension of the co-working Wayco Ruzafa, also of his creation, in what was originally the Goya cinema.
In this case, it is possible to recognize how the author tries to find a balance between what has been done by KOTO Design, for example, and the fully open spaces of other proposals. This arises as a result of the qualities of the pre-existing spaces that, with the intervention, are defined even more exposed and frank, and those who choose to balance with different areas of greater privacy, arguing that “it can be so desirable to work in spaces open as necessary to withdraw and find varying degrees of privacy throughout the day”.
On the other hand, as was the case with the MVRDV offices, the spaces are endowed with different colors that accompany their programmatic requirements, added to wide staircases that intersperse their common footprint with a double-height one, to generate steps that act as points of view. meeting, rest and informal meetings.
With perspectives that seem to be taken directly from a Play Time scene, the new Scott Sports headquarters of the Swiss IttenBrechbühl, contains almost 26,000 sqm of offices and annexes articulated by a large central space in the form of an atrium that crosses it in its entire section.
Supported by innovation and sustainability provided by the avant-garde technologies implemented, this building is capable of accommodating 600 workstations, distributed in flexible and modular spaces, which are interspersed with large open-plan areas designed as spaces for dialogue, rest and reflection.
The central atrium also operates as a large central courtyard, where you can stop for lunch, organize events and exhibitions, or simply move the offices, while all the other spaces of the building visually balcony towards it, trying to provide a feeling of spaciousness and continuity between the buildings. Work spaces.
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Andrea García Crespo, Michael Schmidt BABELstudio
BABELstudio, founded by Andrea García Crespo and Michael Schmidt, is headquartered in Bilbao.
Andrea García Crespo has been an architect from the University of Navarra since 2006, she has worked as a professor at the University of Architecture of Venice and the University of Architecture of Navarra between 2004 and 2005. She also worked for the David Chipperfield Architects studio, where she coincided with his current partner Michael Schmidt.
The study emerged in 2011, when the two young architects entered the competition for the design of the Donostia metro entrances, in which they were finalists.
Its technical team, made up of architects and surveyors, works in the research, development and construction of various architectural projects, including participation in various international competitions.
Andrea García Crespo has been an architect from the University of Navarra since 2006, she has worked as a professor at the University of Architecture of Venice and the University of Architecture of Navarra between 2004 and 2005. She also worked for the David Chipperfield Architects studio, where she coincided with his current partner Michael Schmidt.
The study emerged in 2011, when the two young architects entered the competition for the design of the Donostia metro entrances, in which they were finalists.
Its technical team, made up of architects and surveyors, works in the research, development and construction of various architectural projects, including participation in various international competitions.
Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez ENORME STUDIO
ENORME Studio is the evolution of three co-founders of PKMN Architectures, they're Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez. After having collaborated for ten years on more than one hundred projects they've just started with a new shared initiative that keeps the same radical approach to architecture. They design and build ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS based on industrial systems and typological innovation.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV
MVRDV was founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The practice engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A highly collaborative, research-based design method involves clients, stakeholders and experts from a wide range of fields from early on in the creative process. The results are exemplary, outspoken projects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.
The products of MVRDV’s unique approach to design vary, ranging from buildings of all types and sizes, to urban plans and visions, numerous publications, installations and exhibitions. Built projects include the Netherlands Pavilion for the World EXPO 2000 in Hannover; the Market Hall, a combination of housing and retail in Rotterdam; the Pushed Slab, a sustainable office building in Paris’ first eco-district; Flight Forum, an innovative business park in Eindhoven; the Silodam Housing complex in Amsterdam; the Matsudai Cultural Centre in Japan; the Unterföhring office campus near Munich; the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam; the Ypenburg housing and urban plan in The Hague; the Didden Village rooftop housing extension in Rotterdam; the music centre De Effenaar in Eindhoven; the Gyre boutique shopping center in Tokyo; a public library in Spijkenisse; an international bank headquarters in Oslo, Norway; and the iconic Mirador and Celosia housing in Madrid.
Current projects include a variety of housing projects in the Netherlands, France, China, India, and other countries; a community centre in Copenhagen and a cultural complex in Roskilde, Denmark, a public art depot in Rotterdam, the transformation of a mixed use building in central Paris, an office complex in Shanghai, and a commercial centre in Beijing, and the renovation of an office building in Hong Kong. MVRDV is also working on large scale urban masterplans in Bordeaux and Caen, France and the masterplan for an eco-city in Logroño, Spain. Larger scale visions for the future of greater Paris, greater Oslo, and the doubling in size of the Dutch new town Almere are also in development.
MVRDV first published a manifesto of its work and ideas in FARMAX (1998), followed by MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Costa Iberica (2000), Regionmaker (2002), 5 Minutes City (2003), KM3 (2005), Spacefighter (2007) and Skycar City (2007), and more recently The Vertical Village (with The Why Factory, 2012) and the firm’s first monograph of built works MVRDV Buildings (2013). MVRDV deals with issues ranging from global sustainability in large scale studies such as Pig City, to small, pragmatic architectural solutions for devastated areas such as New Orleans.
The work of MVRDV is exhibited and published worldwide and has received numerous international awards. One hundred architects, designers and urbanists develop projects in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative design process which involves rigorous technical and creative investigation. MVRDV works with BIM and has official in-house BREEAM and LEED assessors.
Together with Delft University of Technology, MVRDV runs The Why Factory, an independent think tank and research institute providing an agenda for architecture and urbanism by envisioning the city of the future.
Arquitectos. SelgasCano
SelgasCano is a Madrid-based practice leads by Jose Selgas (Madrid, 1965) and Lucia Cano (Madrid, 1965). José Selgas. Graduated Architect from ETSA Madrid 1992. Worked with Francesco Venecia on Naples in 1994-95. Rome Prize on the Spain Academy of Fine Arts in Rome 1997-98. Lucía Cano. Graduated Architect from ETSA Madrid 1992. Worked with Julio Cano Lasso until 1996. Member of Cano Lasso Studio since 1997 until 2003.
Prizes. 1st Prize on Compettion of Alternative on Social Housing, Madrid, 1993. 1st Prize on Compettion. 67 Social Dwellings in Las Rosas, Madrid, 1996. 1st Prize on Compettion, Congress Center and Auditorium, Badajoz, 1999-2006. 1st Prize on Compettion, Auditorium and Congress Center, Cartagena, 2001-2011. 1st Prize on Compettion, Congress Center and Auditorium, Plasencia, 2005 (on construction) . Prize VII BIAU Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, 2010. Prize AD Architectural Digest 2011. Selected Mies Van Der Rohe Award, 2011. Madrid City Architecture Award, 2002 + 2007. Madrid Region Architecture Award, 2003. 2nd Prize on Compettion, Madrid Main Court. Madrid, 2008.
Exhibitions: Exhibition at MoMA New York: On-Site: New Architecture in Spain, 2006. Biennale di Venezia, 2006. Shortlisted Saloni Prize 2007 - 2009. Shortlisted IX Spanish Architecture Biennial Exhibition, 2007. Exhibition GA International, 2008-2009-2010 (GA Gallery), Tokyo 2008-2009-2010. Exhibition Guggenheim New York, Contenplating The Void, 2010. Biennale di Venezia, 2010: People meet in Architecture International Pavillion + What architects desire, German Pavillion. Tokyo Art Meeting (II). A new relationship between architecture, art and people, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2011.
In 2012 the architects exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, as part of SPAINLab. In 2013 they won the Kunstpreis (Art prize) awarded by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin and were pronounced 'Architects of the Year' by the German Design Council in Munich.
Kentaro Kurihara, Miho Iwatsuki. STUDIO VELOCITY
Kentaro Kurihara (1977, Saitama, Japan) and Miho Iwatsuki (1977, Aichi, Japan) both worked at Junya Ishigami + Associates in the period 2004-2005. In 2006, they decided to establish the office Studio Velocity. Both are teachers at Aichi Sangyo University, and Kurihara also works at Toyota National college of Technology. They have received several prizes, among their latest awards is the winning prize at the International Architecture Awards (2011) and the AR House 2013.
Kurihara and Iwatsuki have participated in a number of private and group exhibitions, like "JA86 Next Generation -Manifestations of Architects Under 35" in Tokyo, 2012, and "Traces of Centuries & Future Steps", at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012.
Daniel Zamarbide. BUREAU
BUREAU, is the new project by Daniel Zamarbide. The practice hides under its generic name a variety of research activities. BUREAU makes things as an urge to react to the surrounding physical, cultural and social environment with a critical standpoint and with an immersive attitude. BUREAU is (in 2017) a furniture series, an editorial project, a design team, they are architects.
Daniel Zamarbide obtains his master degree at the Institut d’Architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUG) in 1999. During his studies he followed the workshops of Christian Marclay, Philippe Parreno and Catherine Queloz at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Geneva.
In the year 2000 he becomes one of the founding members of group8, an architectural practice that has acquired an important national and international recognition.
Daniel Zamarbide obtains his master degree at the Institut d’Architecture de l’Université de Genève (IAUG) in 1999. During his studies he followed the workshops of Christian Marclay, Philippe Parreno and Catherine Queloz at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Geneva.
In the year 2000 he becomes one of the founding members of group8, an architectural practice that has acquired an important national and international recognition.
Daniel Zamarbide has developed through the years a particular interest in the protean aspects of his discipline and nourishes his work and research through other domains like philosophy, applied and visual arts as well as cinema.
As a guest lecturer and jury he has been invited at a diversity of international schools and institutions to present and discuss his work and research.
Since 2003 his interest in research and education has led him to be invited as an assistant in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and as a professor (2000-14) at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva. In 2014, he integrates the team of ALICE Lab (Dieter Dietz) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a guest professor and research director.
In 2012, Daniel leaves group8 to start a new practice with Leopold Banchini, architect. Their practice, BUREAU A has explored during 5 years the possibilities of architectural making in a great variety of formats, opening the practice to work in the fields of art, garden and landscape architecture, exhibition design, temporary architecture and object making.
In 2017, following the dissolution of BUREAU A, Daniel Zamarbide pursues his more personal research interests under the name of BUREAU. This new entity produces architecture in the continuity of BUREAU A and incorporates to his already prolific activities furniture design (with a design brand of the same name) and an editorial project, which launches the first publication in June 2017.
Zoe Little, Johnathon Little, Theo Dales. Koto Design
Koto Design is studio based in UK co-founded by Zoe Little, Johnathon Little and Theo Dales. They are dedicated to designing modular houses, cabins and sculptural small buildings, inspirated in Scandinavian design and culture.
Koto began looking further east to the minimalist world of Japanese design and their focus on social functionality. They share their emphasis on clean and simple details that provide a sense of calm.
Koto began looking further east to the minimalist world of Japanese design and their focus on social functionality. They share their emphasis on clean and simple details that provide a sense of calm.
José Costa
Jose Costa Arq. is an architecture studio based in Valencia. The firm articulates a series of professionals with a common ambition: to make through architecture a better place to live.
Focusing mainly on the residential, cultural and administrative area, it explores the limits of each project through a simple recipe: passion, effectiveness, creativity, sensitivity, research, recycling, commitment, observation, intuition, criticism, poetry, dynamism, integration and a dose important of fun.
Jose Costa, (Alzira, Valencia, June 11, 1978) studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, obtaining the title of architect in 2004. Obtaining that same year of the 1st prize in the IVVSA national draft competition in its 5th edition, for the construction of a building with 42 homes for young people in Benidorm, marks the beginning of the first Spanish stage.
In 2011 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, a city that will be the main headquarters of the studio until the end of 2014. There he founded the creative space The House, a multidisciplinary extension of the studio that will allow him to experiment and develop connections ARCHITECTURE - ART - DESIGN - EDUCATION. After 4 intense years in Brazil, he returns to Valencia where he continues to develop architectural, social and artistic projects, both from his own studio and from the Enredant artistic collective of which he is co-founder.
Focusing mainly on the residential, cultural and administrative area, it explores the limits of each project through a simple recipe: passion, effectiveness, creativity, sensitivity, research, recycling, commitment, observation, intuition, criticism, poetry, dynamism, integration and a dose important of fun.
Jose Costa, (Alzira, Valencia, June 11, 1978) studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, obtaining the title of architect in 2004. Obtaining that same year of the 1st prize in the IVVSA national draft competition in its 5th edition, for the construction of a building with 42 homes for young people in Benidorm, marks the beginning of the first Spanish stage.
In 2011 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, a city that will be the main headquarters of the studio until the end of 2014. There he founded the creative space The House, a multidisciplinary extension of the studio that will allow him to experiment and develop connections ARCHITECTURE - ART - DESIGN - EDUCATION. After 4 intense years in Brazil, he returns to Valencia where he continues to develop architectural, social and artistic projects, both from his own studio and from the Enredant artistic collective of which he is co-founder.
Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, Otto Brechbühl. Itten+Brechbühl SA
IttenBrechbühl SA is an architecture firm established in Bern in 1922. It has a total of seven headquarters in Switzerland with approximately 300 employees in total. It is one of the main architectural practices in the Swiss market.
Its founders were Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Otto Brechbühl, they established the office with the projects of the Hospital Lory, the Children's Home in Elfenau and the faculty buildings of the University of Bern. They became the architects of the Hoffmann-La Roche court. After Salvisberg's death, Brechbühl took over the office until he joined Jakob Itten in the 1960s with whom he grew the company to more than 200 employees. After the oil crisis, the collapse occurred and the workforce was reduced to 80 employees, of which a team of young architects won twelve awards in competitions that promoted the firm with the projects of the Technopark in Zurich, the treatment wing of the Hospital University of Zurich for example.
In 1993 Gartenmann & Partner AG acquired the shares of IttenBrechbühl AG, thereby increasing the number of employees to 200 again and opening new offices and subject areas.
In 2012, the majority of the shares were transferred to long-standing co-managers and the current ones are committed to further strengthening and expanding this healthy and better-positioned company. Its corporate structure is reflected by work processes, specific project programs and appropriate solutions, in which each project is assigned to an optimal dedicated team. Their main concept is innovation, the engine they use to help shape the future and create sustainable solutions. Of their latest works stand out the Zurich Airport Airside Centre (2013), the Head Office of the RTL Group in Luxembourg (2016) and the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (2020).
Its founders were Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Otto Brechbühl, they established the office with the projects of the Hospital Lory, the Children's Home in Elfenau and the faculty buildings of the University of Bern. They became the architects of the Hoffmann-La Roche court. After Salvisberg's death, Brechbühl took over the office until he joined Jakob Itten in the 1960s with whom he grew the company to more than 200 employees. After the oil crisis, the collapse occurred and the workforce was reduced to 80 employees, of which a team of young architects won twelve awards in competitions that promoted the firm with the projects of the Technopark in Zurich, the treatment wing of the Hospital University of Zurich for example.
In 1993 Gartenmann & Partner AG acquired the shares of IttenBrechbühl AG, thereby increasing the number of employees to 200 again and opening new offices and subject areas.
In 2012, the majority of the shares were transferred to long-standing co-managers and the current ones are committed to further strengthening and expanding this healthy and better-positioned company. Its corporate structure is reflected by work processes, specific project programs and appropriate solutions, in which each project is assigned to an optimal dedicated team. Their main concept is innovation, the engine they use to help shape the future and create sustainable solutions. Of their latest works stand out the Zurich Airport Airside Centre (2013), the Head Office of the RTL Group in Luxembourg (2016) and the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (2020).
Diego Cano Pintos, Gonzalo Cano Pintos, Alfonso Cano Pintos. Estudio CanoLasso
CanoLasso is an architecture studio based in Madrid, led by the architects Diego Cano Pintos, Gonzalo Cano Pintos and Alfonso Cano Pintos.
The studio, founded by Julio Cano Lasso, father of the three architects, has a long history with important competitions and built works, and has been awarded various prizes and recognitions on a Spanish scale.
Diego Cano Pintos
Architect, born in Santiago de Compostela in 1954 and graduated in Architecture from the ETSAM in Madrid (1978). Rating: Remarkable.
Gonzalo Cano Pintos
Architect born in Madrid in 1956 and graduated in Architecture with honors from the ETSAM in Madrid (1985).
Professor of Architectural Design at the CEU School of Architecture in Madrid.
Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Navarra Faculty of Architecture.
Alfonso Cano Pintos
Architect, born in Madrid in 1960 and graduated in Architecture with honors from the ETSAM in Madrid (1986).
Professor of Architectural Projects at the Madrid School of Architecture between 1995 and 2003.
Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Navarra, Faculty of Architecture.
The studio, founded by Julio Cano Lasso, father of the three architects, has a long history with important competitions and built works, and has been awarded various prizes and recognitions on a Spanish scale.
Diego Cano Pintos
Architect, born in Santiago de Compostela in 1954 and graduated in Architecture from the ETSAM in Madrid (1978). Rating: Remarkable.
Gonzalo Cano Pintos
Architect born in Madrid in 1956 and graduated in Architecture with honors from the ETSAM in Madrid (1985).
Professor of Architectural Design at the CEU School of Architecture in Madrid.
Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Navarra Faculty of Architecture.
Alfonso Cano Pintos
Architect, born in Madrid in 1960 and graduated in Architecture with honors from the ETSAM in Madrid (1986).
Professor of Architectural Projects at the Madrid School of Architecture between 1995 and 2003.
Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Navarra, Faculty of Architecture.
