Soundcloud’s New Berlin Headquarters / KINZO

Firm
  • ,
  • Client SoundCloud,
  • size 43,055 sqft
  • Year 2014
  • Location Berlin, Germany,
  • Industry Technology,
  • KINZO has designed a new headquarters in Berlin for social sound company Soundcloud, whose New York City offices we published last week.

    The new headquarters of internationally renowned online platform SoundCloud cover three levels and approx. 4,000 square metres of an old brewery building close to the former Berlin Wall. The complex, designed to serve as a future incubator for up-and-coming start-ups, will become the one-stop office for all 180 Berlin employees of the foremost hub for musical exchange on the net. Anticipating future expansion of the rapidly growing SoundCloud platform, the spacious offices could potentially accommodate up to 350 desks.

    To provide the company and its new HQ with a matching spatial identity and the right architectural framework for the platform’s novel business and working structures, SoundCloud asked KINZO to turn its new hub into a space that exudes and encourages innovation and creativity. The platform envisaged a welcome beacon in Berlin’s office landscape that both shapes the company and evolves with SoundCloud over the years.

    Design: KINZO
    Design Associate: Kelly Robinson
    Photography: Christian Werner