Royal College of Art, London

Royal College of Art, London

The Royal College of Art was founded in 1837 as the Government School of Design. Granted a Royal Charter and university status in 1967, today the RCA remains the world’s most influential postgraduate institution of art and design. The RCA’s new Battersea campus is the manifestation of a bold vision that unites art and design with science, technology, mathematics and medicine, providing an academic home to a diverse range of students – from computer scientists, robotics engineers and product designers to writers, curators and sculptors.

Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, the campus adds 15,500 m2 to the footprint of the university, delivering enhanced workshop and studio infrastructure for students and offering social and educational spaces as a meeting point for talent and ideas.

Royal College of Art, London

W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH

vitra reference Gore

W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH

How to optimise working environments: Dynamic, communicative collaboration is central at Gore and the associates culture provides a good foundation for adopting new modes of office work. Back in 2019 Vitra was commissioned to team up with users to develop a future workplace in an open empty space, in order to enhance this special networking culture and its work structures and processes and implement them in new more flexible spatial concepts.

W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH

Club Office, Vitra

Club Office, Vitra

“Vitra’s Club Office: using our own spaces as a testing ground for our Research & Design team, Vitra’s Consulting & Planning team has built the first Club Office at our head office in Birsfelden, near Basel, Switzerland. People do not come to the office today for individual activities requiring concentration – they come because they have a desire to feel part of a larger whole, because they want to meet their colleagues, and because they seek new knowledge and experiences.”

Club Office, Vitra