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The Completed Headquarters for Swatch and Omega by Shigeru Ban www.spoon-tamago.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 7 months ago

Back in 2013, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (previously) won a competition to design a campus of timber buildings to house the headquarters of watch brands Swatch and Omega in Biel, Switzerland.
Now, after almost 5 years of construction, the campus was completed with an inaugural ceremony taking place last week.
The shimmering, curved silhouette of the new Swatch building breaks with the conventions of classic office building architecture and blends harmoniously into the urban environment.
You can read more about the project on Shigeru Ban’s website, as well as on Swatch.
Two glass elevators take employees and visitors to the upper floors and to the glass pedestrian bridge on the 3rd floor, which connects the Swatch building to the Cité du Tempsfloor space is spread over five floors for all departments of Swatch International and Swatch Switzerland.