Conference Hall in Geneva
The new conference hall for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is located near the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. It also serves as connector between the curved high rise slab of the WIPO headquarters and the new administrative building by Behnisch Architekten. Mostly closed facades, covered in larch shingles, as well as three cantilevering segments with large scale window openings comprise this sculpture-like building. It reveals itself fully to visitors who walk around it. The inside of the building – the foyer at the ground floor and the large hall for approximately 900 delegates on the upper floor – seems like a landscape of different levels connected by ramps and staircases.
