Temples, buildings and mausoleums: architecture has always been a communication tool.
In order to celebrate human and divine events, throughout history architects have always been spokespeople of the civilization they were required to represent by materializing its splendor and petrifying its ambitions. In more recent times, large corporations started to claim some prerogatives of architecture that used to be an ancient apanage of sovereigns and divinities.
The Rockefeller Center, the Chrysler Building, the Apple Campus are some of the most iconic architectures of the last century. Such unique architectures are named after great economic and industrial events or distinguished people of production and economy. One of these colossuses is FITT Group. It is a leading company in the manufacture and development of the most innovative fluid transfer solutions for domestic, professional and industrial applications. It is an international excellence with an Italian heart based on a solid tradition of continuous research, technological innovation and social commitment.
After 50 years, FITT keeps on looking ahead by giving to architecture the opportunity to express its values, mission and goals. For this reason, FITT Future Headquarters is being launched. This is FITT’s competition to design its new headquarters.
Through this competition, architects will have the opportunity to suggest their own vision of future workspace.
In this place, leadership, progress and corporate identity shall be translated into architectural shapes to become an international reference in workplace architecture. FITT will host a center to become the symbol of modernity and progress. The corporation’s community will meet to develop intuitions and research in a new complex designed to amaze and inspire. Such center will compete with the most innovative headquarters of the international scenario to forge a future of wealth, sustainability and innovation.
YAC thanks all the architects who will take part in this challenge.
Winners
First Prize
PIARENA
Sergey Korobkov, Dmitriy Shklyaruk, Evgeniy Korobskoy, Andrey Tsyplakov, Aleksey Cherednikov
Second Prize
Varabyeu partners
Mihail Sobolkov, Ihar Shamanouski, Siarhei Yasiuk, Mark Kamsin, Viktoryia Vetashkina
Third Prize
Buffo Ercoli
Ruggero Buffo, Danilo Ercoli
Gold Mention
min collective
Nick Boer, Martijn Dahrs, Italo de Vroom
Gold Mention
MVA
ATHANASIOS MOUSMOULIDIS, VASILEIOS MERTZANOPOULOS
Gold Mention
RMTR studio
Peter Bulovec, Taja Dežman
Gold Mention
Studio NA
Ian Dainton, Gaby Peña, Priscila Esparza Calderon
Mention
Rebel Base
Alexandru Pavel
Mention
Linus Meier
Linus Meier
Mention
ZeMbioDT
Mila Zlatanova, Teodora Rofetova, Donika Rofetova
Mention
ibrahim nawaf joharji
ibrahim joharji
Mention
COR18
Lingzhe Lu, Kun Chen
Mention
ZZX
chuhan zhou, zhenwei zhong, Haisheng Xu
Mention
5ubtext
Yue He, Nuo Xu, Yuanyuan Dong, Peilin Hu, Dewen Ju
Mention
COMBO
Simone D'Eredità, Mariangela Vertuani
Mention
hustercaplan
Ansgar Huster
Mention
HÉ-Arch
Louis Liu, Ting Wen, Wendu Chen, Dong Wang
Mention
OFFTEC
FLAVIAN BASILE, SAVOIA MARIAROSARIA, FLAVIO MAIO, MARIKA MAIO, FRANCESCO BUTTA', FRANCESCA DI SANTO, DANIELA MOLFETTA, CARMEN VICCO