Elegant and iconic, the new headquarters of the FIM (International Motorcycling Federation) had to wait ten years before taking shape on a site in the outskirts of Geneva where road and railway meet.  

© Matthieu Gafsou

Architects: LOCALARCHITECTURE

Location: Route Suisse 11, 1295 Mies, Switzerland

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Matthieu Gafsou, Joel Tettamanti

Construction Management: Thinka Architecture studio, Onex

Civil Engineering: INGENI, Ingénierie Structurale, Carouge

Heating/Ventilation/Plumbing/Electricity Engineers: Amstein Walthert, Geneva

Acoustical Engineering: Architecture & Acoustique SA, Geneva

Lighting: Etienne Gillabert, Paris
Façade Design: BCS SA, Neuchâtel

Surveyor: Surveyor Olivier Peitrequin, Nyon

© Matthieu Gafsou

From the architect. Elegant and iconic, the new headquarters of the FIM (International Motorcycling Federation) had to wait ten years before taking shape on a site in the outskirts of Geneva where road and railway meet.  It was in 2006 that LOCALARCHITECTURE and Bureau d?Architecture Danilo Mondada won the competition (conducted by the MEP ? Mandat d?Études Parallèles ? parallel development selection process) for the extension of the International Motorcycling Federation?s main headquarters in Mies in the canton of Vaud. Following a change of administration at the FIM the project was abandoned. A ne...