© Tim Van de Velde
Offices and cultural buildings both offer the perfect opportunity to design the atrium of your dreams. These central spaces, designed to allow serendipitous meetings of users or to help with orientation in the building, are spacious and offer a lot of design freedom. Imposing scales, sculptural stairs, eccentric materials, and indoor vegetation are just some of the resources used to give life to these spaces. To help you with your design ideas, below we have gathered a selection of 15 notable atriums and their section drawings.
B30 / KAAN Architecten
© Karin Borghouts
Cortesía de KAAN Architecten
RIJNSTRAAT 8 / Ellen van Loon / OMA
© Nick Guttridge
Cortesía de OMA
Macquarie Bank / Clive Wilkinson Architects
© Shannon McGrath
Cortesía de Clive Wilkinson Architects
Stuttgart City Library / Yi Architects
© Stefan Müller
Cortesía de Yi Architects
Parque Toreo / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
© Rafael Gamo
Cortesía de Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Rijksmuseum / Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
© Pedro Pegenaute
Cortesía de Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
Federal Center South Building 1202 / ZGF Architects
© Benjamin Benschneider
Cortesía de ZGF Architects
The Hub Performance and Exhibition Center / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
© Dirk Weiblen
Cortesía de Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Intesa Sanpaolo Office Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
© Enrico Cano
Cortesía de Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Äripäev Office / Arhitekt 11
© Tõnu Tunnel
Cortesía de Arhitekt 11
Library, Museum and Community Center ‘De Petrus’ / Molenaar&Bol&vanDillen Architects
© Stijn Poelstra
Cortesía de Molenaar&Bol&vanDillen Architects
UN City / 3XN
© Adam Mõrk
Cortesía de 3XN
Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion / Renzo Piano + Payette
© Michel Denancé
Cortesía de Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Payette
CREATE / Perkins+Will
© Tim Griffith
Cortesía de Perkins+Will
Polak Building / Paul de Ruiter Architects
© Tim Van de Velde
Cortesía de Paul de Ruiter Architects