Salewa Headquarters, Cino Zucchi Architects

This is certainly striking. New headquarters for manufacturer of outdoor gear, in Bolzano, Italy. By Cino Zucchi Architetti.

The architects say:

The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location adjacent to the Bolzano highway suggesting a “landscape” building, in formal dialog with the surrounding steep cliffs. As well as housing new work spaces and an indoor climbing gym, the building aims to provide a space for interaction and communication between the company and its network of suppliers, partners and clients. The new headquarters represents a point of convergence between different elements of everyday life: from physical, social and communicative dimensions to work styles and leisure. The Salewa headquarter is formed by a series of multifaceted slabs and towers, including a 50 metre-high structure which when built will be the tallest building in the city.

My only criticism is that I would have thought an outdoor company might have gone for a greener building, at least one well served by public transportation instead of alongside a highway. But I don't know that I have ever seen a cooler-looking office building.