Following an international design competition, David Chipperfield Architects have received the commission to build the Rolex USA headquarters in New York. The new 25-storey tower will be located on the corner of 5th Avenue and 53rd Street, replacing the existing building that has been occupied by Rolex since the 1970s.
 
‘We are proud to have been selected to design the Rolex USA headquarters building. Our team is committed to creating an exemplary building befitting the heritage and culture of the Rolex brand, as well as its prominent 5th Avenue location.'
David Chipperfield
 
At 25 stories and 15,329 square meter, the new structure will hold new office areas for staff and tenants and a new Rolex store at ground level. According to a recent press release, "the building will provide brand experiences across a wide range of company’s interests," and become an important symbol of Rolex's legacy of excellence, quality, and precision.

The 15,329 sqm / 165,000 sqf building is designed in accordance with LEED Platinum to take into consideration the increasing concerns of sustainability and energy consumption, while enhancing the well-being of its users.
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David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before working at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.

In 1985 he founded David Chipperfield Architects, which today has over 300 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.

David Chipperfield has taught and held conferences in Europe and the United States and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Kingston and Kent.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he received a knighthood for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, while in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of a lifetime’s work.

In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

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Published on: October 15, 2019
Cite: "David Chipperfield Architects to build Rolex headquarters in New York" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/david-chipperfield-architects-build-rolex-headquarters-new-york> ISSN 1139-6415
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