Here’s CHESS Headoffice, a office building with solar cell for exterior was designed by MIII architects, located in Haarlem, Netherlands. In the Dutch city of Haarlem the location of the town’s former power station is being transformed into a centre for cultural and creative activity. Here the distinctive industrial buildings are combined with new structures in a spacious setting that allows for various cultural activities. At the core of this area a square with the main historical building on one side and Solar on the other.

Solar (all buildings have been given energy related names as a reference to the former function of the area) was initially intended as two separate buildings and later transformed into a single development in which the two halves of one building are connected by a full height glazed atrium that facilitates all vertical and horizontal traffic movement.

The interior remains loyal to the industrial character of both the area and the building in displaying stout metal constructions in the atrium and allowing the technique of the building to be in view in much of the office space. The harshness of it all is mediated by warm wood tones and smooth white surfaces.