The Design Group Wins the International Property Awards 2021-2022
The title of Polish “Award Winner” in the International Property Awards competition is once again in the hands of The Design Group architectural studio. In this year’s edition, the jury chose their “underwater” interior design project for oil and gas company TechnipFMC. This is already the second IPA award won by TDG (in 2020 they received the award for the Clariant office at Monopolis in Łódź). The award-winning TechnipFMC office project was also recently named the best office in Krakow in the OfficeSuperstar 2021 competition.
The “Underwater” Office on Four Floors
TechnipFMC operates both in the subsea project space and on the surface. The architects at The Design Group closely tied the main design concept to the company’s activities, arranging many details inside the office referencing the client’s machines, tools and materials: industrial lamps, trusses, containers, yellow technical barriers and reclaimed container doors.
“The client was very keen for the look of the new office to reference the architecture of the concern’s other headquarters on one hand, and to stand out from them on the other. With this client need in mind, we decided that the office should architecturally reference what TechnipFMC does – supporting the extraction of resources from the seabed. We therefore defined four levels: the first floor represents the underwater space, the second is the water surface, and the third and fourth floors are the decks of a vessel used during marine operations.” – Konrad Krusiewicz, CEO The Design Group
The office design is personalised in terms of the colours and shapes that reference TechnipFMC’s identity and logo. The void zone – an open space integrating floors 2, 3 and 4, connected through glazing to floor 1 – symbolically integrates all the teams working on the individual storeys.
“The void zone also symbolically integrates all the teams working on each of the floors, on which we placed open spaces, collaboration areas and meeting rooms. In the previous location, this connection was impossible, which is why the client was very keen for all employees to feel a sense of consolidation in the new office.” – Marta Konarska, architect responsible for the office concept
The void zone is decorated with an installation made of 1,000 small glass balls, representing the Subsea Tree – TechnipFMC’s flagship product.
The International Property Awards Competition
The International Property Award is a world-class mark of excellence. It is one of the most prestigious and largest annual architectural competitions in the world, running continuously for over 27 years. Candidates from various countries submit projects in dozens of categories, and a jury of over 80 industry experts assesses them in terms of design, quality, services, innovation, originality and commitment to sustainable development. Projects with the highest scores in a given country advance to the regional and then global stage.
