Designed by blocher partners, A new concrete monolith brings all employees under one roof.

Transparent structures have edged out the mansions built at the dawn of industrialization. A case in point is the new home of Blocher Blocher Partners, at Herdweg 19 in Stuttgart: a building that represents the corporate values of innovation and sustainability. And the standards were high: for here, colleagues were planning for colleagues.

Stuttgart ? Much is demanded of today?s office buildings, especially if they are to house many disciplines under one roof, as is the case here: In addition to the office for architecture and interior design, this building houses a firm that develops mono-brand concepts as well as an agency for communications, corporate design and visual merchandising.
The building brings together offices previously dispersed on three separate sites ? and it?s only a stone’s throw away from the original location, on Stuttgart?s quiet Lessingstraße. A new site was found on the busy Herdweg Street, on the slope close to the city center. The post-war lodge building that once occupied this lot fell into disuse and disrepair ? and ultimately was torn down. But the regulatory requirements for new construction were strict: For example, the new building had to match the footprint and size of the original.

The result is an architecture of dialogue that so embodies the highest global environmental standards that it earned the gold certificate by the Deutsche Gesells...