Business school

The new École de commerce et culture générale (ECCG) is a college providing training in the fields of commerce, health, social and teaching. It is located south of the railway tracks and, together with the mobility infrastructure, marks the development of the town of Sierre beyond the tracks. Its arrival finds the Plaine Bellevue quarter benefiting from a second educational institution, the other being the HES_SO School of Social Work. The site is characterised by two reference levels: the first looks north and west towards the railway station and route de la Monderêche respectively, while the second looks south and east towards the Plaine Bellevue quarter. The position of the college, which straddles the discont... More

The headquarters of the international educational project Learnlife bring a revolutionary learning concept to Barcelona, with creativity, co-creation and personal development as core ideas. The original open space, designed in accordance with the Japanese methodology "ikigai", encourages us to place our passion in the center, giving meaning to our life, to create welcoming spaces filled with energy where natural materials, the use of light or the choice of furniture invite visitors to develop fully.   Concept Roca’s participation combined sustainable design and functionality by means of products like the self-closing Sprint faucets, the Meridian WC or the innovative W+W solution, which combines basin and WC reusing the water f... More

The school was founded in 1863 and was first established in the av. Trudaine (Paris 9e), then Montparnasse in 1908, being expanded in 1954. The old building has undergone a rehabilitation between 2007 and 2011. The reconstruction includes the expansion of a new part in which buildings are designed with vertical windows façades of colours in a gradient from yellow to red. The rehabilitation of this new entity has been entrusted to the agency AS Architecture - Studio, who took place according to High Environmental Quality (HQE). Novancia business School Paris, the new business school oth the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, reflects its origins – Advancia and Negocia – while affirming its innovative spirit. This new chapter follows... More

Our design for the business school grew out of a question: How might a single building energize and transform an entire campus? In our early visits to USD, we found that the campus lacked cohesion and easy circulation between its distinct ends that function as public portals. Our design, completed in 2009, brings a powerful organizing force to the campus. New landscapes—we created three—were as central to our design as the 75,000 SF building itself. Our first move was to relocate a parking lot; in its place we created a new quadrangle and sited the business school on it. The new quadrangle united existing buildings, including the law school and library, and established several other building sites—one of which is now home to our second b... More