Office as we know is a room where administrative work are been done and the first thing that strike to our mind when we hear the word ‘Office’ is a small cubicle room. But it seems the architecture industries are coming up with some new and innovative designs that will surely make people fall in love with their workplace. An environment can have a huge impact on the creativity and innovation of any organization. Here are few office buildings; some are completed while some are underway; but each of them are unique on their own way.
Everyone loves LEGO building blocks, but now a building is being made from these blocks. The new Lego headquarters is under construction at Billund in Denmark and is believed to attract millions of fans from all over the world. The headquarters is said to be an experience centre and is going to look like a building made from LEGO.
The new 52,000 sq metre site will have work and play areas for employees, and will be stationed a few streets away from the upcoming LEGO visitor centre. It will also feature open-plan workspaces, a public park, community facilities and grief roofs.
The new headquarters is designed by architect CF Møller. Influenced by LEGO’s iconic bricks, the headquarters will feature a ‘People House’ and an atrium featuring bold colours and geometric shapes.
The building is scheduled to open later this year. It promises “vast experience areas,” a café, a Lego store and several roof terraces. It hopes to become a destination for an annual 250,000 visitors.
The company has also launched a Lego architecture series that allows people to build their own houses and buildings in the LEGO style.
All under one roof
TripAdvisor has completed the construction of a brand new six-storey, 280,892 square ft building that will serve as its global headquarters in Needham.
The plot of land has been purchased by a New York Real Estate firm, an entity controlled by US Realty Advisors, according to a ‘Boston Business Journal’ report.
Normandy Real Estate Partners sold the headquarters to the firm. They happen to be the company overseeing the mixed-use development where TripAdvisor is located. Future office space and hotel accommodations will be coming to the 750,000 square ft of land.
The company’s new home will house an on-site cafe, fitness centre, outdoor amphitheatre and a great deal of parking.
TripAdvisor is an American travel website company that provides reviews of travel-related content. It was founded in 2000.
TripAdvisor’s new global headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts, opened in July 21, 2015. The new 282,000 square ft facility is state-of-the-art, incorporating Leadership in the Energy and Environmental Design best practices and features a travel theme. It also provides a wide range of employee-friendly amenities, such as a fitness centre, a game room and lounge, and lunch is served daily.
Dynamic facade
The Al Bahr towers feature the world’s largest computerised dynamic façade. The design concept is based on the fusion between bio-inspiration, regional architecture and performance-based technology.
Situated in Abu Dhabi, The Al Bahr Towers are a benchmark for a highly considered approach in the built environment. The towers proudly stand at the vanguard of this new orientation by respecting the historical, cultural and environmental nature of the region whilst providing a unique state-of-the-art design reflecting the aspirations and vision of Abu Dhabi.
The project brief stipulated two 25-storey towers that create an outstanding landmark which provides a contemporary design, using latest technology combined with consideration of the region’s architectural heritage.
The design is based on the concept of adaptive flowers and the ‘mashrabiya’ – a wooden lattice shading screen which is traditionally used to achieve privacy whilst reducing glare and solar gain.
‘Groundscraper’
London has a shiny new financial engine. It’s a massive building called 5 Broadgate, a 12-storey “groundscraper” whose four trading floors alone cover almost 67,000 square metres – the equivalent of four football pitches.
The building gets the innovative design by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects. 5 Broadgate will provide a new headquarters for UBS, housing up to 6,000 people and featuring four immense trading floors – something much sought after by businesses today. Marking a pioneering move away from traditional glass facades, 5 Broadgate is a new and exciting architectural era for Broadgate.
This vast money machine will hum into life next year, supercharged with the biggest single concentration of traders in the city – 3,000 of them working for UBS, plus 2,400 management and support staff.
Elegant stripes
Singapore-based Ministry of Design has used bold, graphic stripes to create a distinctive commercial office building for the island city’s emerging creative class.
The project, dubbed ‘100PP’ after its location in Pasir Panjang on the south coast of the island, is designed as a creative epicentre within a rejuvenated light industrial area on the city fringe.
The facade comprises windows, balconies and air-conditioning ledges, which are unified with horizontal stripes. The striations of the eight-storey building are designed in response to its highway-side location. Like a contemporary ziggurat, the building’s multi-layered facade steps away from the highway as the building rises. On its opposite side, the building enjoys sea views of the Singapore Strait.
This stepped form creates a series of stacked platforms that give the building a dynamic appearance, which is further reinforced by a series of horizontal stripes blurring the distinction between the facade elements – balconies, windows and air-conditioning ledges.
The interior of the building evokes an industrial aesthetic feel through its use of high ceilings, grey tones, feature lighting materials and environmental graphics.
The office interior uses grey tones, feature lighting and high ceilings. The soft and hard landscaping elements also mirror the stripes of the building.
‘100PP’ was a finalist in the 2015 World Architecture Festival Awards in the Office – Complete Buildings category.
Towering stature
Kingdom Tower
Set to dwarf the world’s tallest building — the United Arab Emirates’ Burj Khalifa — by over 550 feet, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower will be the planet’s first building to top a kilometre in height. The $1.2 billion project, located in Jeddah, will house luxury condos, office space, an observatory, a Four Seasons hotel, and feature the world’s highest sky terrace on the 157th floor (still quite a way from the top). Construction on the project officially started last year, and the building is due to be completed in 2019.
Lotte World Tower
Set to hover well above anything else in Seoul’s skyline, the Lotte World Tower will stand at an imposing 1,824 feet. It has 123 stories. The building will feature, from the bottom up, retail, offices, apartments, a hotel and a public observation space on top. It will also notably overtake North Korea’s extraordinary pyramidical Ryugyong Hotel as the largest building on the Korean Peninsula.
Shabiha Nur Khatoon