The new campus for the Croatian electric hypercar manufacturer Rimac brings together a wide array of programs and spaces, from production plant and offices to kindergarten, dormitory, and even a sheep meadow. The campus Designed by 3LHD Architects and Located in the outskirts of Zagreb, within a natural landscape. The Rimac Campus is organized around two main volumes that follow the site’s natural topography, with several accompanying facilities tucked underneath a green roof that stretches…
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have been revealed as the winners of a competition to design a new headquarters and bottling plant for San Pellegrino, located in Italy. The competition brief asked architects to renovate and expand the historic home of the company, the world’s leading sparkling mineral water company, with a “truly innovative and technologically advanced design” aimed at integrating into the natural aesthetic of the surrounding terrain while responding to the iconic identity of…
The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC) has revealed visuals for its new resort concept on Saudi Arabia's Shurayrah Island. Shurayrah will be one of only 22 islands selected for The Red Sea Project. Dubbed as Coral Bloom, the new resort development, designed by Foster + Partners, will be blended in the island’s pristine natural environment. TRSDC expects to welcome the first guests for the Coral Bloom resort by the end of 2022, alongside an international…
BIG Studio has designed the O-Tower for the new OPPO R&D Headquarters (China’s largest smartphone company) in Hangzhou. The design combines aesthetics and innovative technology in a building that will be an environmental, economical, and socially sustainable hub for innovation. Described by BIG as being infinity-loop shaped, the skyscraper was designed to "connect ground to sky in a continuous loop of collaboration". The tower, with an area of 161330 m2, sits between a natural lake,…
Second Home, the co-working business for entrepreneurs and innovators, has opened its first U.S. location in Los Angeles. ‘Second Home Hollywood’, also known as ‘HolLA’, is designed by SelgasCano. The architects transformed a former Hollywood parking-lot into a sprawling co-working complex which is surrounded by a garden. Second Home Hollywood has replaced 90,800 square feet of hardscape for 70,000 square feet of landscape. What previously was a parking lot is now a garden. …