This beautiful six-story building, located in Berlin, Germany, was designed by Gnädinger Architects for the Otto Bock health care company.
The organic/dynamic design of the building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between people and technology.
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amanda
COOL!!
Dec 19th, 2009
lalagirl
interesting :)
Dec 19th, 2009
Fillibert
As a professional window cleaner I have issues with designs that are a pain to clean. Architecture firms should hire a janitor as a consultant for a change. It looks nice when it’s clean but those WHITE panels are dirt magnets.
Dec 19th, 2009
swox
Mmmh..chairs in the conf room are ugly, shame!
White is trendy at the moment, anything else?
Something positive, the shape of the building is fresh and the windows are cool even hard to clean for sure!
Greatings from the chocolate world…
Dec 19th, 2009
Jamface
That’s not futuristic at all. It just looks that way because it’s all wavy. I think there was one in Chicago like that.. And then there’s a building that’s made completely of glass in New York. As for the stairs, that’s easy, you just put lights under it and put some wavy hard benches around.
Dec 19th, 2009
sean
architects know this sucks… specially the “otto bock” name right there
Dec 19th, 2009
albert
nice, but a lot of unuseful space…
nothing new under the sun )
Dec 20th, 2009
Palscience
Thats nice. I am assuming that they are green buildings….
Dec 20th, 2009
superdit
yup, hoping a cool building like that is eco friendly
Dec 20th, 2009
Alex
wowza you people are snobs
it says its a futuristic design, doesn’t mean it has to be something completely never before seen ever. How many buildings actually look like that? I imagine the ratio between them and brick and mortar traditional houses puts them in the severe minority.
Secondly, as for the cleanliness of the white, I don’t know if it has been applied to this building but there is a white paint finish that can be used that is dirt resistant making it easier to clean. It’s been on an episode of Grand Designs used by an architect on a massive white box house. Something seen in the 80’s and before but modernist architecture is still seen as futuristic by many.
Dec 20th, 2009
G
looks best in daylight.
Dec 20th, 2009
Zequez
Nice! I want my house like that xD.
Dec 20th, 2009
Karin L. Stewart
Beautiful contemporary design!!!
Dec 20th, 2009
umwelt
Nature… organic, more prostitution, for what in hell will you place lamps under stairs just to make them futuristic??? wise use of resources, thats natural, excess, even minimalist excess… thats just us.
Dec 21st, 2009
agnes
I love these!!! it’s awesome!!
Dec 21st, 2009
Mask
those crazy germans ^^
i think it looks pretty cool. providing that it IS relatively eco friendly.
Dec 21st, 2009
JK III
COOOOOL !
Dec 22nd, 2009
Bogdan Sandu
There’s one in Romania that looks almost the same on the exterior. The difference is that our is bigger.
Dec 22nd, 2009
Margaret
looks kinda like the flatiron building
Dec 25th, 2009
HR
Give me some dark, gothic place to ponder, Catalan-styled Gaudiesque curvature leading into Baroque smoke… a place where it feels that humanity is not being outwardly dissected.
When I look at this modern behemoth all I see is money and more money, and people with hearts of ice, hypocrite artsy-fartsy moneymakers.
Dec 26th, 2009
whats the point?
Its just a building, does it do anything other than just sit there and look different.
Is it self-sufficient?
Use solar electricity?
Self-cleaning windows?
Anything that will help the environment?
Since nothing was mentioned, then most likely not.
Just another drug company wasting money on their image when they should be doing something to help the people that made them profitable!
Dec 28th, 2009
George Kvasnikov
Photos are much better, than in real view)))) I live in Berlin and have seen this building)
Dec 29th, 2009
Benni Wolf
Another beatful building is the Leonardo Glass Cube:
http://www.glass-cube.de/
Jan 1st, 2010
wien
nice building
Jan 5th, 2010
Shabaz
I have been to this building. The small dotted lights dance at night, and looks really fascinating. Its very close to the famous Sony Center in Berlin.
Feb 28th, 2010
Eddy
I’ve been there too, look pretty awesome at night!
May 29th, 2010
Gem
@HR.
Who’s being artsy-fartsy now?
Jun 4th, 2010
Puja
good work
Aug 25th, 2011
Chris
I love Berlin!
Feb 1st, 2017