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post updated 17 January 2026
Architecture of Factories
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Factory Architecture. e-architect 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 News
8 January 2026
Dali Transformer Factory, Yunnan Province, China
Architecture Design: Atelier Alter Architects
photo © Highlight Images
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Factory Buildings Designs
Modern Factory Buildings Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
The Ark Shanghai Cement factory warehouse renovation
8 Apr 2013
Persian Factory Building, Iran
Design: Hooba Design Group
image from architect
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.
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2 Jul 2012
PJ Carroll’s Factory Dundalk, Ireland
Design: Scott Tallon Walker Architects
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
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.
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4 Feb 2010
Software & Biotechnology Plant, Bilbao, northeast Spain
Date built: 2009
Design: COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS
photo : Aleix Bagué
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.
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Ipekyol Textile Factory, Edirne, Turkey
Date built: 2008
Design: Emre Arolat Architects
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
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
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.
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International Factory Architecture Designs
Major Modern Factory Buildings, alphabetical:
AEG Turbine factory, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1908
Design: Peter Behrens Architect
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Berlin Turbine building
Bang & Olufsen, Struer, Denmark
Date built: 2007
Design: KHR Architects
picture from architect
Bang & Olufsen
BMW Welt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Date built: 2007
Design: Coop Himmelb(l)au
picture from Ketchum
CHILEXPRESS buildings, Chile
2008
Design: Guillermo Hevia Arq. U. de Chile
photo : Cristián Barahona
Chilexpress building
Cristalchile Glass Bottling Plant, Chile
2006
Guillermo Hevia H Architects
photograph : Guy Wenborne
Cristalchile
Derco Distribution Centre, Chile
2006
Guillermo Hevia H Architects
photograph : Guy Wenborne
Derco building
Die Gläserne Manufaktur, Germany
2001
Design: Henn Architekten
photo : H.G.Esch
Dresden Volkswagen building, Dresden
Farmacias Ahumada Centre, Chile
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Guillermo Hevia H Architects
image : Juan Purcell
Farmacias Ahumada
Fiberline Building, Fyn, Denmark
2008
KHR Architects
picture from architect
Fiberline Building
Finanical Times Building, London, UK
1988
Grimshaws
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
FT London
GFC Building, Coswig near Dresden, Saxony, Germany
2009
wurm + wurm architekten
photo : Ester Havlova
GFC Coswig Building
Hoover Factory & Office Building, England, UK
1932
Wallis, Gilbert and Partners
photo © Nick Weall
Hoover Factory, Middlesex
Paykar bonyan panel factory, Iran
2008
ARAD
picture from architect
Iranian factory
Workshop building, Schoten, Belgium
2006
Loos Architects
image from architect
Schoten workshop, near Antwerp
More Modern Factory Building projects online soon.
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Contemporary Production Developments
Contemporary Production Facility 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
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Production Buildings
Battersea Power Station
photo © Nick Weall
Harlequin 1 BSkyB Production Facility, London, UK
Arup Associates
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