Ingenhoven Overdiek: European Investment Bank, Luxembourg

Architectural Review, The, April, 2005

As with the majority of their work, energy efficiency was high on the agenda when Ingenhoven Overdiek considered the design of the new European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. The building design now proudly claims to be even more efficient than the Swiss standards. Beneath a radial diagrid structure--that recalls the glazed vault of Norman Foster's troubled Cambridge Law Faculty (March 1996)--the accommodation is organised into a number of terraced open-plan floorplates that zigzag to create six full-height triangular atria. Providing almost 70 000sqm of space under one skin, the building's dramatic glazed form will naturally become a distinctive landmark on Luxembourg's skyline. R. G.

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