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IBM Boca Raton – Marcel Breuer and Thomas Gatje

IBM Boca Raton – Marcel Breuer and Thomas Gatje

2024

Completed in 1970, the IBM Offices in Boca Raton, designed by Marcel Breuer and Thomas Gatje, marked a pivotal moment in the architectural language of corporate and technological infrastructure. Situated on an empty site in South Florida—destined to become a tech hub—the precast concrete ensemble housed offices, research labs, and manufacturing facilities for a company then at the forefront of defining the digital future.

Inspired by Breuer’s earlier IBM project in La Gaude, France, the Boca Raton complex responded to a more complex program. The building’s elevated, serpentine form—supported by bifurcated concrete columns—snakes across the flat landscape like a vertebra. Its slender massing, brise-soleil façade, and modulated openings provide both climatic responsiveness and a disciplined expression of Modernist tectonics.

Part of the Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work

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Tags:

  • Building,
  • Campus,
  • IBM,
  • innovation,
  • laboratory,
  • Landscape,
  • Marcel Breuer,
  • Miami,
  • Office,
  • Thomas Gatje,
  • and United States of America

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