Roche Multifunctional Workspace, Grenzach-Wyhlen Building, Baden-Württemberg Commercial Property, Architecture Photos
Roche Multifunctional Workspace in Grenzach-Wyhlen
2 Feb 2022
Design: Christ & Gantenbein Architekten
Location: Grenzach-Wyhlen, Baden-Württemberg, south west Germany

Photos © Walter Mair
Roche Multifunctional Workspace, Germany
In September of 2021, after some two years of construction, the Multifunctional Workspace Building on the campus of the Roche Pharma AG in the southwest German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen, was officially declared open. Christ & Gantenbein have devised a flexible and forward-looking office building that inspires the development of new ways of working and impresses with its simple, but clear design.
Already back in 2011 the Basel-based architects Christ & Gantenbein had built an office and technical installations building on the campus of the Roche Pharma AG pharmaceutical company in the southwest German town of Grenzach-Wyhlen, which lies just on border with Switzerland. Now, the new Multifunctional Workspace Building FRITZ, which gets its name from the company’s founder Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, continues the pre-existing grid layout of the campus. Together with the equally new plazas and external spaces that surround the building, it enlarges the campus itself and creates a new centre, which is partially accessible to the public. The focus, however, must lie on the extraordinary workspace that has been created, ...