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adidas LACES, Herzogenaurach, Germany
Kada Wittfeld Architektur
23 Sep 2009
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BRIEF R&D and Marketing Building with 400 sq meters of office space. ADDED VALUE A realization of the competition brief would have led to a comb- or double-comb structure with long halls, departments without views, and bad orientation. Instead the ring structure – with its central atrium and “laces” (connecting “catwalks”)– combines a series of advantages: all departments have a partial view onto the landscape; the laces create an efficient direct access without intersecting other departments. The laces and atrium become the communication platforms of the building.
ADIDAS LACES, HERZOGENAURACH | GERMANY The new adidas administration building “Laces“ forms a bright white counterpart to the horizontal black volume of the adjacent adidas Brand Center. The clearly contoured building fits into the existing “World of Sports” campus, with the campus park floating in the interior space, yielding a tempered atrium. This plaza forms the heart of the new building – a forum and meeting space. The office floors organized around this central space provide views into the surrounding landscape of the Herzo- Base. Catwalks above the plaza link the departments, offering a high degree of interaction. Like laces, they tie the building together, forming a multilayer workspace and conveying an atmosphere of creativity.
typology: office building
construction volume: gfa 60.000 m² cubature 356.000 m³
client: adidas ag
realization: 2008-11
competition: 1st prize 2007
project manager: dirk zweering
2009-09-23
TOPPING-OUT CEREMONY
On September 23rd , 2009 the sporting goods manufacturer adidas celebrates a roofing ceremony of the new office building ‘LACES’ in its head office in Herzogenaurauch, Germany. The shell of the new building which will be finished in the 2nd quarter of 2011 already shows fine qualities which were very important to kadawittfeldarchitektur during the planning phase. The recently concreted floors and the catwalks, the “LACES” slowly form the new atrium step by step.
The lifting of the two trusses of the entrance area last week was the celebratory highlight of the structural works. The front truss overstretches an area of 60 m and has an overall dimension of 100m x 12m (length x height) and a total weight of 370 tons. One of the cranes, the Goliath crane (Demag T-Rex) is one of the biggest available cranes of northern Europe with a max. lift of up to 1200 tons. Only the crane hook itself weighs approx. 12 tons.
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