COBE has completed the Halftime building at the Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, which is distinguished by a giant rhomboid-shaped roof.
The 15,500-square-metre Halftime building was designed by COBE as a multifunctional venue that provides staff, brand ambassadors and visitors to Adidas' World of Sports campus with an array of formal and informal meeting spaces.
Its facilities are unified by its giant flat roof, which is made from V-shaped concrete beams and dedicates a third of its footprint to skylights that maximise natural light inside.

Halftime was the winning entry in a competition held in 2014 as part of a wider masterplan for the Adidas' World of Sports campus, which is being transformed into a visitor attraction.
Its completion follows Behnisch Architekten's construction of an office and reception building designed to look like a sports stadium and the addition of bright landscaping by LOLA Landscape Architects.
"A key task was to create the right atmosphere to reflect the unique Adidas culture. We did this, in part, by matching the different needs with different sports, making room for big ideas and large gestures as well as a touch of humor," added Stubbergaard.

"In addition to the event hall, which is designed as a gym, you can hold meetings at the bottom of a bright blue swimming pool, in a locker room or in the Adidas founder Adi Dasler's old workshop, complete with tools."

COBE is an architecture firm founded in Copenha...