URBAN WELLBEING

FABRIK N°09 – AN INNOVATIVE OFFICE CONCEPT Villeroy & Boch’s award-winning Fabrik N°09 project combines history and modernity by creating new working environments and high-tech areas within an existing factory building. The ZIA Office Awards jury was deeply impressed by the highly innovative, yet sustainable approach. COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES IN A HISTORICAL BUIL...

The five-star superior hotel The Fontenay was designed by the Hamburg-based architect Jan Störmer from Störmer, Murphy and Partners. With his timelessly modern yet strikingly organic design, the architect has paid tribute to both the modernity and the long history of the well-known port city of Hamburg. The hotel’s exclusive private bathrooms are equipped with elegant su...

The “44 Floors” in Rotterdam is the residential West Tower in the building complex “De Rotterdam” completed at the end of 2013. The multi-functional building on the Wilhelmina Pier was designed by OMA, the office founded by Rem Koolhaas, as a vertical city offering a total floor space area of 160,000 m2 with offices, restaurants, a hotel and leisure facilities, in additi...