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post updated 11 February 2024

Architecture of Factories

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Factory Architecture. We aim to include factory buildings / projects that are of top quality. We cover completed Factory Buildings, new building designs and architectural exhibitions on factories. The focus is on contemporary industrial buildings.

Factory Buildings – Latest Designs

Factory Buildings News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

The Ark Shanghai Cement factory warehouse renovation

8 Apr 2013
Persian Factory, Iran
Design: Hooba Design Group
Factory Building Iran
image from architect
Factory Building Iran
In order to achieve the goal the volume design concept, including all components of the factory such as the enclosure wall, the security building, the official building, the presentation part, the manufacture building and the landscape of the project. In order to achieve an integrated organization, we used a spatial diagram, which defined both the inside and outside of the project simultaneously. This diagram is influenced by the building’s site, and also the existing status of building and additional sections.

2 Jul 2012
PJ Carroll’s Factory Dundalk, Ireland
Design: Scott Tallon Walker Architects
PJ Carrolls Factory Building
photo : Paul Tierney
PJ Carroll’s Factory Building
RIBA Award Winner 2012
It is not often that a firm gets a chance do a makeover of one of their masterpieces. This is a project that has rescued an important example of mid-century modernism and answers questions about how best and most economically we can re-use under-performing and outmoded structures, rather than building from scratch.

1 Feb 2012
Nestle Factory, Brazil
Design: METRO Arquitetos
Nestle Factory Building Brazil
photo : Leonardo Finotti
Nestle Factory Building
The main intention of the design for Nestle factory building visiting areas was to create a landmark in the generic landscape of the highway that connects São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, revealing the existence of a public and accessible space.

4 Feb 2010
Software & Biotechnology Plant, Spain
Date built: 2009
Design: COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS
Spanish Industrial Building
photo : Aleix Bagué
Software & Biotechnology Plant, Bilbao
New building, Software and Biotechnology plant in Parque Tecnológico of Derio, Bilbao, Spain. This is an industrial complex, close to Bilbao, done as a result of two idea competitions.
The Technology Park is a center of high technology industries turns 25 in 2010. For guidelines last phase of industrial growth decided to build two new buildings for research and production, respectively, computing and biotechnology. Both of them should work in complete independence, although the plan was considered in a unified way.

Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey
Date built: 2008
Design: Emre Arolat Architects
Turkish Textile Factory Building
picture from architect
Turkish Textile Factory Building
Shortlisted in 2010 Aga Khan Awards for Architecture.
For the design of the this textile factory building, effective inputs were the technical descriptions of the cyclic relations of these types of productions, the limited size of the area, and the constraints of service and main road connection possibilities and those of the local production techniques.

Poruwadanda Wooden Toy Factory, Sri Lanka
Date built: 2011

Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates
Poruwadanda Toy Factory Building
photograph : Waruna Gomis
Wooden Toy Factory Building
The project was to build a Wooden Toy Factory on an abandoned Rubber estate, by a joint venture between a Norwegian investor and a Sri Lankan partner, with the toy products expected to be exported to the Nordic and Scandinavian Countries. Norwegian client was to close down his wooden toy manufacturing facility in Czechoslovakia due to high labor cost in Europe and relocate the machinery and equipment to Sri Lanka, taking advantage of the tax concessions and investment incentives provided by the Sri Lankan Board of Investment, and Sri Lankan competitive labor market.

RPL Factory – Canteen Recreaton and Rest Room Building, Sri Lanka
Date built: 2011
Architects: Chinthaka Wickramage Associates
RPL Factory Building
photograph : Waruna Gomis
RPL Factory Building
This project was to design a Canteen, Recreation and Restroom building for Royal Porcelain Factory in Horana in a newly acquired six (06) perch block of land adjoining the Factory Premises. The Building was designed capturing the architectural idiom of the Factory building itself with a monitor roof in the centre. Due to space constraints the building was to be two leveled. The resultant section designed with a monitor roof in the centre enabled the restrooms and recreation room to be located in the mezzanine level overlooking partly double height canteen area.

Factory Architecture

Major Factory Buildings, alphabetical:

AEG Turbine factory, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1908
Design: Peter Behrens Architect
Berlin Turbine building
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Berlin Turbine building

Bang & Olufsen, Denmark
Date built: 2007
Design: KHR Architects
Bang & Olufsen
picture from architect
Bang & Olufsen

BMW Welt – Event and Delivery Center
Date built: 2007
Design: Coop Himmelb(l)au
BMW Welt
picture from Ketchum
BMW Welt

CHILEXPRESS buildings, Chile
2008
Design: Guillermo Hevia Arq. U. de Chile
Chilexpress building
photo : Cristián Barahona
Chilexpress building

Cristalchile Glass Bottling Plant, Chile
2006
Guillermo Hevia H Architects
Cristalchile Plant
photograph : Guy Wenborne
Cristalchile

Derco Distribution Centre, Chile
2006
Guillermo Hevia H Architects
Derco building
photograph : Guy Wenborne
Derco building

Die Gläserne Manufaktur, Germany
2001
Design: Henn Architekten
Dresden Volkswagen building
photo : H.G.Esch
Dresden Volkswagen building, Dresden

Farmacias Ahumada Centre, Chile

Guillermo Hevia H Architects
Farmacias Ahumada
image : Juan Purcell
Farmacias Ahumada

Fiberline Building, Fyn, Denmark
2008
KHR Architects
Fiberline Building
picture from architect
Fiberline Building

Finanical Times Building, London, UK
1988
Grimshaws
FT London Factory
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
FT London

GFC Building, Coswig near Dresden, Saxony, Germany
2009
wurm + wurm architekten
GFC Coswig
photo : Ester Havlova
GFC Coswig Building

Hoover Factory & Office Building, England, UK
1932
Wallis, Gilbert and Partners
Hoover Factory
photo © Nick Weall
Hoover Factory, Middlesex

Paykar bonyan panel factory, Iran
2008
ARAD
Iranian factory
picture from architect
Iranian factory

Workshop building, Schoten, Belgium
2006
Loos Architects
Belgian Workshop building
image from architect
Schoten workshop, nr Antwerp

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Production Developments – No Images

Aplix factory building, Le Cellier, Nantes, France
2000
Dominique Perrault Architectes

Cardboard factory, Fors, Dalecarlia, Sweden
1952
Ralph Erskine

Diestre Transformer Factory, Valencia, Spain
1968
Rafael Moneo Architects

Fiat factory, Turin, Italy
1923
G.Matté Trucco

Ricola Factory Addition, Laufen, Switzerland
1989-91
Herzog de Meuron Architects

Turun Sanomat, Turku, Finland
1929
Alvar Aalto Architect

Production Buildings

Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station
photo © Nick Weall

Harlequin 1 BSkyB Production Facility, London, UK
Arup Associates

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