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
RIJNSTRAAT 8 / Ellen van Loon / OMA
Macquarie Bank / Clive Wilkinson Architects
Stuttgart City Library / Yi Architects
Parque Toreo / Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
Rijksmuseum / Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
Federal Center South Building 1202 / ZGF Architects
The Hub Performance and Exhibition Center / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Intesa Sanpaolo Office Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Äripäev Office / Arhitekt 11
Library, Museum and Community Center ‘De Petrus’ / Molenaar&Bol&vanDillen Architects
UN City / 3XN
Harvard Art Museums Renovation and Expansion / Renzo Piano + Payette
CREATE / Perkins+Will
Polak Building / Paul de Ruiter Architects
