Zalando?s New Berlin Head Office is designed as an ensemble of two new buildings that form the heart of the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The project?s two seven-storey buildings provide[...]

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Zalando?s New Berlin Head Office is designed as an ensemble of two new buildings that form the heart of the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The project?s two seven-storey buildings provide some 42,000 m² of office space. Up to 2,700 employees will work here for Europe?s largest online supplier of shoes and fashion goods. Instead of the company?s various departments being spread out in annexes all over the city, they will now be brought together in a new location in the immediate vicinity of the Mercedes Benz Arena. Courtesy of HENN Architects
With a striking design that will project the company?s corporate identity in the cityscape, HENN emerged as the winner in an invited competition. The building?s shape in plan reinterprets the typical Berlin block-edge development. It rotates the building grid diagonally to the development plan and places the internal courtyards on the outer edges of the plots. This opening creates transitions between office and public space. Further views into and out of the building are ensured by the combination of transparent and translucent facades that express the diversity of the company to the world outside.
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The vertical atrium in the main building opens into a space extendin...