Transformation of Former Power Plant into Innovative Office Building

The Designboom website reported that the architecture firm Atelier van Berlo has transformed a pure, brute, raw and heavy industrial complex in Eindhoven, the Netherlands — in size and volume completely unsuitable for office use — into a comfortable, breathing, spacious, fresh and young work environment. ‘The innovation powerhouse’ is an ecosystem for the innovative industries. a center of creativity, a hyper-modern, multi-tenant building where different companies meet, inspire and stimulate innovation. The architects envisioned a unique working space, an open ecosystem focused on collaboration, something more than just new offices. it would be a home for different innovative companies, universities, partners, clients, and visitors to work together and create the innovations that shape the future. The two main points of departure for the design were to maintain the building’s innate architectural qualities and to incorporate this vision of open innovation.

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