Office architecture

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about office architecture

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Offices

YPF Luz

YPF Luz is a company within the YPF group dedicated to the generation and development of efficient and sustainable energy solutions for the Argentine market. As part of its growth in the renewable resources sector, the company needed a new corporate headquarters aligned with its vision of the future, sustainability, and technological innovation, and entrusted Contract Workplaces with the comprehensive development of this project. Maximiliario Didari Maximiliario Didari Maximiliario Didari Maximiliario Didari The new offices were developed on a 2,240 m² floor of the building located at Juana Manso 1069, in the emblematic Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Madero. The location offers a modern corporate urban setting... More

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Laboratories

Sudcorp | Ecuador

Sudcorp es una compañía ecuatoriana dedicada a la tecnología alimentaria que se encuentra en plena fase de consolidación y expansión internacional de su marca. Tras haber operado en un espacio reducido y compartimentado que generaba serias ineficiencias en la operación diaria, la empresa demandaba un cambio hacia la flexibilidad, la integración de sus procesos y el bienestar de sus colaboradores. Para acompañar esta transformación cultural y dar cabida a la creciente estructura de su equipo, Sudcorp confió en Contract Workplaces el diseño y la construcción de su nueva sede corporativa.  Bicubik - Andres El proyecto se desarrolló sobre una p... More

Project • By KORDAS Architects • Offices

Office Building in Chalandri

Architecture with a strong urban presenceLocated on a highly visible plot along the Attiki Odos axis, the building is designed to accommodate the offices of a multinational commercial company. Its prominent position and program led to an architectural approach defined by clarity, identity and a strong presence within the urban landscape. A composition of volumes unfolding in layersThe architectural composition is structured through a sequence of layered volumes with shifting outlines. Each volume emerges from specific spatial and functional conditions, shaped through a series of projections and recesses that define the relationship between interior and exterior, movement and use. The entrance as a transitional spaceAt ground level, a rece... More

Project • By SO Architecture • Offices

Shoval Art offices

The building was designed to create a strong connection between the architecture and the green landscape of Ramat Menashe, bringing the surrounding greenery into the building itself. The shifting of the floors creates broad, sheltered balconies oriented toward the landscape, while a bright and naturally ventilated courtyard at the heart of the building provides quality frontages for the offices. Shai Epstein Shai Epstein Shai Epstein Shai Epstein Shai Epstein A shaded entrance plaza creates a seamless connection between the interior and exterior, while a two-storey steel structure allows part of the building to span over the covered parking area. Shai Epstein Shai Epstein Shai Epstein Shai Epstein... More

Project • By Urban Soul Project • Offices

The Glade Office Campus

The Glade Office Campus is an unrealised competition-winning design for an 18,000-square-metre workplace development in Marousi, Athens. Developed by Urban Soul Project in collaboration with UNS for Prodea Investments, the project was selected as the winning proposal in the architectural competition. The design was not subsequently taken forward to construction and is presented here as an unbuilt architectural concept. Caption Caption The project explored a workplace model in which architecture and landscape were conceived as a continuous environment. Its design was organised around three related ideas: Forest, Glade and Foliage. Caption The Forest formed a planted perimeter around the campus, creating a transition from the... More

Project • By The Room Architecture and Design • Offices

Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization office in Phnom Penh is a contemporary extension to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries compound. Carefully planned to sit within its context rather than stand apart from it, the two-story concrete structure responds to the familiar gabled rooflines of the surrounding government buildings through a double-sided gabled roof and a continuous shaded walkway. Bruce Vincentiis The building is organized around a simple concrete volume where the shaded perimeter walkway forms a protective layer between the exterior compound and the interior workspaces. This walkway supports light, views, and cross-ventilation along the facades. Enclosed offices, meeting rooms, and support spaces are grou... More

Project • By Fluxwerx • Offices

American Forest & Paper Association Office

At the American Forest & Paper Association headquarters, materiality leads. Fox Architects shapes a spatial narrative rooted in forestry, where wood, paper, and light come together to express both industry and intent. A continuous thread of natural material moves through the interior, translating the association’s work into built form. Millwork, texture, and tone establish a calm, grounded atmosphere, while selected lighting, developed in collaboration with Ambiance Lighting, is handled with the same level of precision. The Portal family of luminaires is deployed as a cohesive system, balancing ambient and directional light with a restrained, minimal presence. Erin Kelleher Traveling through a winding cutout in the ceiling,... More

Project • By SNOB Architects • Offices

Futuristic Office Building in Barcelona

Located in one of the  Barcelona’s districts, this office building exemplifies contemporary architectural innovation while responding sensitively to its historic surroundings. Its height and massing respect the scale of the neighborhood, creating a dialogue between the district’s traditional character and modern interventions. The building establishes a visual identity distinct from the older structures, yet integrates seamlessly with nearby contemporary architecture. An underground parking facility enhances functionality by keeping sidewalks clear, maintaining public space, and improving accessibility for employees and visitors. SNOB Architects The facade combines expansive glass surfaces with white, curved slats, ge... More

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Offices

Robertet

Robertet Mexico’s relocation from an industrial zone to a high-end corporate environment marks a significant moment in the company’s growth and cultural evolution. As the Mexican subsidiary of the French fragrance and flavour manufacturer, Robertet sought a headquarters that could consolidate offices and laboratories on a single floor while expressing the brand’s values of innovation, craftsmanship, and sensory intelligence. Designed and delivered by Contract Workplaces, the project supported the client from site selection through to execution, ensuring strategic, operational, and cultural alignment throughout the process. Arely Medina Arely Medina Located on the 34th floor of Torre M within the Mitikah complex... More

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Distribution Centres

AMS Uruguay

AMS is a Uruguayan logistics and foreign trade company with more than 70 years of experience in the local market. Its headquarters is located in a heritage building in the city’s historic center, constructed in 1926 and modified multiple times over the years. Originally built as a bank, the property was gradually occupied without a defined strategy, resulting in a fragmented, identity-less configuration filled with partitions, panel dividers, and dark areas that no longer suited the company’s current programs and teams. Santiago Chaer With the goal of aligning the workspace design with the company’s renewed profile, AMS commissioned Contract Workplaces to carry out a comprehensive transformation that would reflect it... More

Project • By Contract Workplaces • Offices

Vital Supermarket Offices

The project for Supermayorista Vital, an Argentine company and a leader in the sale and distribution of mass-consumption products, began with the need to reorganize its work environment and enhance its spatial impact. The main objective was to modernize the 5,000 m² of the existing building—composed of four levels and a basement—in order to adapt it to new work dynamics and update its image. To support them in this process, Vital engaged Contract Workplaces, which initiated the task with a series of workshops led by its Workplace Management team. The purpose was to define the values and dynamics that would be present in the new workspace. Andrés Negroni From the beginning, the symbolic importance of the buildi... More

Project • By A&A Architects • Offices

Building 15

Building 15, located at Business Park Sofia exemplifies contemporary sustainable office architecture, seamlessly integrating modern design with environmental consciousness. Designed in 2016 and completed in 2019, this project replaces a former storage building and transforms the surrounding urban area. The new Building 15 marks a significant evolution in the park's development and positions it as one of the most significant business locations on the Balkans.  Caption Caption Architectural Concept It’s important to note that the Business Park goes beyond its function as a hotspot for work and business in the Bulgarian capital. It’s also a public park that invites all residents of the surrounding neighbourhood. As... More

News • News • 25 Nov 2024

MVRDV restores Aldo van Eyck’s Tripolis office buildings and protects them with office landscraper

In the Zuidas neighborhood of Amsterdam, international architectural practice MVRDV has renovated and transformed Tripolis Park, one of the last projects completed by celebrated Dutch modernist architect Aldo van Eyck (1918 – 1999). In this key redevelopment project, MVRDV has restored two of the three listed heritage buildings in keeping with Van Eyck’s original designs. The studio also added a new 12-story “landscraper” along the site’s edge that shelters the Tripolis complex from the adjacent A10 highway. Ossip van Duivenbode Ossip van Duivenbode MVRDV The Tripolis complex consists of three office buildings — Tripolis 100, 200, and 300 — that date from 1994. The develo... More

News • News • 5 Sep 2024

Brutalist-like BIG HQ enjoys confident and commanding presence in Copenhagen harbor

  On the tip of Sundmolen Pier in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn (North Harbor) area, a new brutalist-like building enjoys a confident and commanding presence in its waterside industrial setting. The home of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, the seven-story BIG HQ is architecturally anchored amongst the factories, warehouses, and shipping containers of Copenhagen harbor. A series of massive, stacked concrete elements provide BIG HQ with its stark structural and visual identity. Andreas Konnerup Laurian Ghinițoiu The site’s small footprint presented BIG with a design dilemma: how could the studio organize a single work environment for its large team when they would need to split across a minimum of four levels? “In... More

News • News • 6 Aug 2024

DREAM completes hybrid timber office building with 3x3 basketball courts for Paris 2024 Athletes’ Village

French architectural studio DREAM completed a hybrid timber office building topped with 3x3 basketball courts as part of the Paris 2024 Athletes’ Village. The low-carbon building is providing office space during the Olympics and Paralympics. An adaptable design seeks to ensure use of the building beyond the period of the Games. Cyrille Weiner DREAM The 54-hectare (133.4-acre) Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village was built across three communes of Seine-Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris: Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, and L’Île-Saint-Denis. Architect Dominique Perrault was tasked with the design of Sector E — named “Les Belvédères” — for housing at... More