#portugalarchitecture

When BNP Paribas set out to bring its scattered Lisbon teams under one roof, the brief went beyond consolidation. Openbook Architecture was asked to design a workplace that could hold both the intensity of collaborative work and the need for quiet concentration, without forcing people to choose between them. The result, a 38,000 sqm hub across three buildings at Parque das Nações, is less a single office than a considered sequence of spaces, each tuned to a different register of working life. Eduardo Montenegro Photography BNP Paribas Group employs close to 10,000 people in Portugal, spread until recently across separate addresses in Lisbon. The decision to consolidate the majority of these teams into a single campus at... More