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“As Stephen Hawking stated, humanity’s greatest achievements have been obtained in encounters, and its greatest failures in non-encounters or, worse, in clashes. Today, this is more true than ever, and it is necessary and urgent to foster the birth of collaborations because we have enormous potential in terms of expertise and technology to be used, especially for the sake of Life. Architecture, through the creation of pleasant, reassuring, and stimulating environments and a conscious distribution of functions, is a tool to make human contact and the consequent transfer of knowledge more accessible and immediate.” Michele De Lucchi

The designers were tasked with creating a space for people whose work revolves around generating ideas. Known for its bold campaigns and progressive culture, Banda wanted an office that would serve not simply as a workplace but as a manifesto, a physical expression of its values. The project by ater.architects reflects openness, sincerity, craftsmanship, respect for history, and a balance of refined taste with intentional imperfections and self-irony. “The clients wanted a cozy space that felt more like a bright, spacious apartment than an office,” says Yulia Tkachenko, architect and co-founder of ater.architects.

The designers were tasked with creating a space for people whose work revolves around generating ideas. Known for its bold campaigns and progressive culture, Banda wanted an office that would serve not simply as a workplace but as a manifesto, a physical expression of its values. The project by ater.architects reflects openness, sincerity, craftsmanship, respect for history, and a balance of refined taste with intentional imperfections and self-irony. “The clients wanted a cozy space that felt more like a bright, spacious apartment than an office,” says Yulia Tkachenko, architect and co-founder of ater.architects.

The new business district in downtown Casablanca consists of a compressed urban density, where public space is reduced to its most elementary dimension. Facing the street, this office building is elevated in order to extend the public space of the street all the way into the heart of the property.

This tenant office building stands just steps from a subway station in the Ichibancho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward—an area near the Imperial Palace (the former Edo Castle), steeped in history and culture. Conventional tenant office buildings generally house multiple companies within a single structure, yet their facades fail to reflect the diversity within. On top of this, they lack a sense of connection with the surrounding community and contribute little to the streetscape or the character of the local neighborhood. This project addresses these problems by creating a building that connects people to the surrounding urban environment while accommodating increasingly diverse work styles and values. To achieve this, two key architectural elements were incorporated: interior spaces defined by projecting bay windows and an open exterior space.

At the heart of Casablanca Metropolis, the forthcoming Financial City presents itself as a tool for regional influence and a laboratory of architectural renewal. In this ambitious context, we envisioned the project for the new headquarters of BCP Bank to embody both modernity, as a Casablanca tradition, and projection into the twenty-first century, while expressing an institutional image, in service of the bank’s mission and values: solidarity, proximity, citizenship, and performance.

In the Batignolles district, PCA-STREAM is transforming a former parking structure, once slated for demolition and rebuild, into a mixed-use complex combining hotel, restaurants, and offices.

The new headquarters building for XPENG Motors, whose architectural design was led by Sun Wei of weico architects, is now fully constructed. It welcomed its first occupants on October 20th of this year, officially entering the commissioning phase.

The Shanghai Baoshan Long Beach Winder Tower Complex is strategically located at the Yangtze River estuary beside the Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal—Asia’s largest and the world’s fourth-largest home port. DLR Group won an international design competition with a vision to transform the industrial port into a new waterfront landmark. The complex is 2M SF, bringing together a 180-meter observation tower, a 120-meter Grade-A office building, an 80-meter five-star hotel with 300 keys, a 1,027-seat concert hall, a tunnel operations center, and retail.

22RE, the Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary architecture and design studio, in collaboration with creative director Madeline Denley of Never Far Studios, unveils its latest project: a thoughtfully designed headquarters for Ceremony of Roses, an artist merchandising and brand services company supporting some of the world’s top musical creatives. Located in Culver City, the 7,000-square-foot office occupies a transformed 1950s vaulted factory, now a striking and sensuous workspace that supports both the functional needs and creative ambitions of the brand.