Henn GmbH

Covestro Headquarters

COVESTRO HEADQUARTERS

Henn

Covestro Headquarters
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ARCHITECTS
Henn

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hgesch

LOCATION
Leverkusen, Germany

YEAR
2020

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten

MEP
M+p Gruppe

LIGHTING
Lichtvision Design & Engeneering

INTERIOR DESIGN
Kinzo Architekten

BUILDING PHYSICS
Müller-bbm

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

AREA
23181 m²

Covestro Headquarters
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Covestro Headquarters
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Covestro Headquarters
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Text description provided by architect.

The new Covestro Headquarters reflects the company’s ethos of radical experimentation and innovation.

A high-tech polymer company, Covestro creates materials used in every aspect of modern life, from green energy to healthcare to electronics to its own building interior.

Covestro Headquarters
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Covestro Headquarters
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HENN’s design functions as an accelerator: a space to inspire and support the future-oriented solutions of the company as it addresses issues of sustainability and moves towards a circular economy.

The six-story Covestro Headquarters, completed in November of 2020, is a bold announcement of the company’s presence along the B8 motorway.

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Covestro Headquarters
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Its sleek form is the result of highly efficient modular construction—a single Z-shaped unit is stacked and mirrored to create a series of recessed garden terraces on the building’s facade.

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Covestro Headquarters
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The same formal logic shapes the HQ’s rich interior life.

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Covestro Headquarters
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The building’s angled exterior and central atrium create an extroverted “pinch point” at the heart of the building.

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Covestro Headquarters
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The atrium’s cascading stairways and terraced spaces act as an informal town hall for events and gatherings, while open-office seating, flexible work areas, and private rooms are organized along a gradient from communal around the atrium to solitary at the periphery.

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Covestro Headquarters
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Innovation requires a combination of highly functional technical spaces and informal social spaces.

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Covestro Headquarters
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Designed as a space of encounter, The new Covestro Headquarters maximizes the visual and physical connections between spaces, departments, and people—engineering the serendipitous meetings that lead to unexpected and innovative solutions.

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The headquarters is part of the HENN-designed Covestro Campus, which will be completed in 20xx.

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The campus will link research, development, and administration into a single coherent entity and will include a hybrid office-laboratory building and a technical center/pilot plant, alongside the new headquarters.

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Ground floor plan
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Floor plan level 1
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Floor plan level 2
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Site plan


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Section diagram
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Organization diagram
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Henn GmbH
T +49 89 523570 F +49 89 52357123
Henn GmbH
Augustenstraße 54, 80333 Munich, Germany