Stefan Behnisch on architecture

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OCTOBER 2011

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WIPO’s new building

Basic facts

Photos: WIPO/Stephen Mettler

Photo: David Matthiesen

Total of ten floors: six above ground and four below

ground

Total surface area: 47,000 square meters

Total volume: 190,000 cubic meters

Ground floor lobby area with 3 meeting rooms

A cafeteria seating 320

An international intellectual property library –

open to the public

Some 500 work places on 5 floors

Four basement levels (including delivery area,

storage area and underground car parking for

280 vehicles and 230 parking spaces for delegates)

Service areas

Tunnel linking the new building with the WIPO tower

Architect: Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany

General contractor: Implenia Entreprise Générale, S.A.,

Geneva, Switzerland

Pilot: Burckhardt & Partner, S.A., Geneva, Switzerland