Geneva Offices

The façade follows the geometry of the stepping floor plates and has a changing rhythm of vertical shading elements. The inspiration for this pattern was the traditional finish for clockworks made in Geneva, ‘Côtes de Genève’, a particularly structured metal finish engraved in the clock-face. Each façade element is made from concrete and bronze parts used in varying densities on the elevations to optimise passive shading and provide the building with a changing appearance – sometimes more reflective (metal), sometimes more transparent, sometimes more solid (polished concrete).