I wonder what it must be like to work in other countries. From some of the things I’ve seen and read, it sounds like a walk in the park. Check this headquarters out! They have a recreational space, a pool! A fitness center! It’s like they want their employees to enjoy life. Huh. 

They don’t have cubicles! There is ample daylight! Open space. Everything seems so different there in comparison to the way the U.S. runs ship. Long hallways. Closed offices. No daylight (do you know it’s a law in Germany that every office needs to have daylight?!) grey cubicles. Incessant angry lighting (my adjective to describe overhead florescent lighting). 

This perspective is very captivating to me. The facade is interesting, yet simple. The entire structure is elegantly handled. It looks as though a lot of attention was paid to detail. 

This is one of the side elevations. The side that doesn’t face inward. It reminds me very much of Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin: 

Only, this headquarters is much more beautiful. That is not to say however that I don’t like the Jewish Museum. I do. It is also a very powerful piece of architecture, but it is trying to evoke a different emotion. While the IB TECH IT Headquarters is elegant, The Jewish Museum is supposed to look rough. 

Another thing that I love about this office building is the simplicity of their diagrams. Check out the rest of the pictures. The diagrams speak for themselves, with an ample amount of clarity. There is no explanation necessary, they figured out how to represent their ideas on paper, and they did it. I commend them for that because learning how to do that is something architects constantly struggle with.