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    • 13.07.2007 Love & Money - the Best of British Design Now
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    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • Residential
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • Retail
    • Harrods World
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Office
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Education
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
  • Leisure
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • Transport
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
  • Public Space
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Landscape
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Masterplan
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
  • Exhibitions
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
  • Civic
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • Furniture
    • Wooden Bench
  • 2019
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
  • 2018
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
  • 2017
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
  • 2016
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
  • 2015
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • BHV, Paris
  • 2014
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 2013
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
  • 2012
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2011
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
  • 2010
    • Ravensbourne College, London
  • 2008
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • 2007
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • 2006
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
  • 2005
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Trinity EC3, London
  • 2004
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
  • 2003
    • BBC Music Box, London
  • 2002
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • 2001
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
  • 1999
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Built
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Ongoing
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • Private House, Hove
    • Harrods World
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
  • Others
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Old Street station, London
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
  • < 1,000 m²
    • Private House, Hove
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • 1,000 - 5,000 m²
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
  • 5,000 - 10,000 m²
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
  • 10,000 - 50,000 m²
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
  • > 50,000 m²
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • Europe
    • Private House, Hove
    • La Folie Divine, Montpellier
    • Îlot 19 La Défense, Nanterre, France
    • Borderouge lot 22
    • Magdalene Odundo: the Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield
    • Is this Tomorrow? Whitechapel Gallery, London
    • Harrods World
    • Gare de Noisy-Champs, Paris
    • OSZ Chemistry Physics Biology, Berlin
    • Nine Elms to Pimlico Bridge, London
    • Whitechapel Market Arboretum, London
    • Private Villa, Burnier, Switzerland
    • 130 Fenchurch Street, London
    • South-East Coastal Park, Barcelona
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Swimming Pool, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Waterpark, London
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Bridge, London
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, 52 Av. Des Champs-Élysées, Paris
    • Public Spaces Along the Thames - Cycle Highway, London
    • Victoria Beckham Flagship Store, London
    • Ravensbourne College, London
    • Housing Prototype
    • Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid
    • Ilot PSA Citroën, Nantes
    • Residences for Artists and Researchers, Paris
    • ZAC Eurêka - Îlot 21, Castelnau-le-Lez, France
    • Zabludowicz Collection extension, 176 Prince of Wales Road, London
    • National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Adaptive re-use of 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London
    • Bastion St Antoine Archaeological Museum, Geneva
    • Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
    • Science Museum Entrances and Patrons’ Centre at The Science Museum, London
    • Guggenheim Competition, Helsinki
    • London 2012 Olympic Park, London
    • The Virtual and Architecture, From Life, Royal Academy, London
    • Architecture Room, Royal Academy 2017 Summer Exhibition, London
    • Architecture and Its Affects at the Arsenale, 13th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 1
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 2
    • Proposal for a temporary pavilion - Pavilion 3
    • Next at the British Pavilion, 8th Venice Biennale, Venice
    • Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956 - 2006 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
    • Villajoyosa Municipal Police Headquarters, Villajoyosa, Spain
    • La Rioja Technology Transfer Centre, La Rioja, Spain
    • Torrevieja Municipal Theatre and Auditorium, Torrevieja, Spain
    • BBC Music Box, London
    • Banque Libano-Française, Beirut
    • IOC Headquarters The Olympic Campus, Lausanne
    • Trinity EC3, London
    • Harrods Toys Department, London
    • Daniel w. Fletcher Pop-Up Store, London
    • John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex, Leicester
    • Bluemoon Hotel, Groningen
    • Les Galeries Lafayette, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris
    • BHV, Paris
    • Belgo Zuid, London
  • Middle East
    • Meydan Retail Complex and Multiplex, Istanbul
  • North America
    • Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
    • World Trade Centre 1 - Bundle Towers, New York
    • World Trade Centre 2 - Ground Zero Memorial & Towers, New York
  • Asia
    • Ismaili Center Houston
    • National Stadium Japan, Tokyo
    • Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
    • Spanish Pavilion at the 2005 World Expo, Aichi, Japan
    • Dulnyouk Publishers, Paju, Korea
    • Victoria Beckham Store, Hong Kong

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Team
  • Architect - Farshid Moussavi Architecture
  • Structural - Werner Sobek
  • Space Planning - ID:SR
Project Data
Location
Lausanne, Switzerland
Client
International Olympic Committee
Date
2013 - 2014
Area
9840m²
Budget
Confidential
Awards
Competition Joint Winner

The new IOC Headquarters is designed to replace the existing Olympic House with a compact courtyard building, to minimize the amount of park ground occupied by the new headquarters whilst providing an office building with the best environmental performance. The courtyards bring in light, natural ventilation and views of the exterior into two levels of workspaces within the building. They also divide the compact form naturally into separate, shallow workspaces around a central spine which is planned as both an interactive circulation space as well as the social hub of the building. This ensures that the building has a compact exterior footprint but the offices are ‘lean’. It also ensures that the different workspaces naturally intersect in the central social spine/hub. This social hub starts from the entrance lobby where the sports café is located. It extends via a wide stair that doubles as a seating area to the centre of the first floor offices. At this point it becomes a central lounge for the IOC staff to use as a break out space. The spine continues to a second floor gym that enjoys spectacular views of the park and the lake. Whether it is to meet colleagues for an impromptu meeting on the first floor lounge, to greet a visitor in the ground floor Sports café, or engage in fitness training, the IOC staff will converge in this social spine throughout the day.

In order to maximize transparency of the offices, vertical structural supports are designed as long span arches connected to the roof by vertical posts. The glazed facades below the arches, through which the offices look, are suspended from the arches by minimal glazing supports. This ensures that the workspaces are more flexible for different internal configurations as they are less frequently interrupted by vertical supports and that their views out are interrupted less often by structure. The system of arches has also an iconographic significance as its circular components evoke the Olympic logo. The interior of the new IOC Headquarters as well as the exterior elevations will therefore be constant reminder of the Olympics.

The roof of the building is designed as a publicly accessible plaza in order to recover the park ground occupied by the building. It benefits from spectacular views of the park as well as the lake and offers a space where the public and the IOC can gather. In order to provide access to the plaza, the building slopes down from its centre towards the main approach from the city as well as towards the park. This generates a route over the building, along which spectacular views of the lake are opened up. This route is an irresistible feature of the building, an invitation to climb, and explore its strange form that shifts between a building and a landscape: in other words, the building becomes an invitation to move and interact with the IOC in a physical and literal way. Visitors and locals are not treated as passive observers but actors and participants within its precinct. The hyperbolic shape of the roof plaza provides it with two open sides that connect people to the ground and two that fold up and give a sense of enclosure and some protection from the winds. The roof plaza can be used for changing spectacles: daily as a quiet belvedere, a social gathering space for friends and families but also as a special platform for hosting IOC related ceremonies.

For the public, the experience of the IOC building will be of a democratic institution that, like a highly trained athlete, lifts them up above the park landscape and provides them with a social space with spectacular views. For the IOC visitors and employees, the experience of the building will be of intimacy as well as social interaction, and of an interior space interwoven with exterior landscape. The building, therefore, actualizes the goals of dynamism and interaction, outside as well as inside.

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