The striking building complex «The Circle» at Zurich Airport in Switzerland, was designed by the Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto. On 180’000 square meters of floor space, it combines, among other things, two hotels, a convention center, and modern retail space as well as offers fields of art, culture, gastronomy, education, and health.

«The Circle» is also the new «Homebase» of Flughafen AG. On five floors, the new offices offer around 600 employees a modern work environment in a prime location. «The Circle» is the largest building construction project in Switzerland and the Swiss gateway to the world.

The design of the work environment has changed significantly in recent years and can also be seen in the office concept of Flughafen Zürich AG: creative co-working spaces, meeting areas and lounges are replacing fixed structures and permanently assigned desks.

In collaboration with TeamH12, Annette Douglas developed the textiles for the new «Homebase». For the meeting rooms a multicolor stripe «Airport». For the largest building construction project, the longest ever woven stripe repeat 7.5m. The multicolor stripe is woven on a dobby loom and the weft colors come as a solid color or mixed with two colors, matching the colorful color concept of TeamH12. In the «Hub« area, the transparent acoustic curtain «STREAMER pro« works as an acoustic absorber and room divider at the co-working spaces along the curved window front.  

_{Flughafen AG}

^{TeamH12
(Raumschneiderei GmbH, agps architecture, Le Comptoir)}

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