Kinzo creates New York apartment flair for law firm

Freshfields

Building Redevelopment, Berlin, 2023
Kinzo has remodeled and redesigned three floors of the Kollhoff Tower at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin for the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The brief called for an inviting, cozy interior design – future-oriented spaces that are more reminiscent of a New York apartment than a corporate headquarters. Where the community takes center stage and prestigious corner offices with a view have been transformed into meeting lounges and cafeterias.
Kinzo developed the workstations based on the so-called hotelling concept: There are comfortably furnished single and double offices that resemble smart hotel rooms. The petrol-colored cores throughout are complemented by other colors depending on the floor, with warm, muted nuances such as light green, violet, dark blue and terracotta dominating.
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‘The cores are dominant in the architectural structure. So we made a virtue of necessity and gave them a strong aesthetic.’ says Karim El-Ishmawi. On all three floors, the building cores are petrol-colored and clad with vertical slats.

More transparency, more atmosphere: Kinzo has converted around 3,000 square meters of office space for the Berlin branch of the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The address is prestigious: three floors in the Potsdamer Platz 1 tower block, a brick building designed by architect Hans Kollhoff and completed in 1999, where the law firm already occupies several floors. The task of the extension was to adapt the high-quality premises, which had been used by another tenant for many years and were now worn out, to meet today’s requirements for working environments. In addition, places for meetings and dialogue were to be included. The aim was to fulfill the high expectations of the international law firm: They wished for an atmospherically pleasant, inviting interior design without any contemporary experiments that would work from day one. In this project, building in existing structures meant tailoring the existing structure into a perfectly fitting customized suit.
Photos © Pion Studio | Außenaufnahme © Sebastian Dörken
Client Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Year 2023
Architecture Hans Kollhoff
Location Berlin
GFA 2860
Category Building in existing structures
Scope Architecture (LP 0-8)
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