位于莱比锡Gerberstraße街5号的萨克森开发银行（SAB）办公大楼于2021年7月1日开放，约200名员工逐步迁至新址。大楼由伦敦建筑事务所ACME设计，其广场是由159根柱子组成的公共前庭院，使整栋建筑格外引人注目。

The new premises of the Sächsische Aufbaubank – Förderbank – (SAB) at Gerberstraße 5 in Leipzig were opened on 1 July 2021 with initially around 200 members of staff gradually relocating. The facility, designed by the London-based architectural practice ACME, is an eye-catcher thanks to its forum, a publicly accessible forecourt with 159 columns forming.

▼项目鸟瞰，aerial view © Strohhut Pictures

大楼由两部分组成：“私用”建筑和“公共”广场——柱子森林。这座L形的可持续建筑分为底部一层和上部四层，可容纳多达500个工作场所。一层包括员工餐厅、六个顾客服务室、一个礼堂和一个会议区。此外，这里还展出了前Robotron大楼的三幅墙面浮雕，它们是年轻艺术家Arno Rink、Frank Ruddigkeit和Klaus Schwabe在1969年创作的委托作品，这些莱比锡画派先锋的大画幅作反映了“人造卫星年代”和“东方现代主义”的时代精神。SAB将在新建筑中复原和展出文物视为对遗产的承诺，也是对莱比锡市及其生动艺术场景的致意。银行办公楼层还设有智库和InnoLab办公空间，旨在提供最大程度的灵活性，以便为办公空间的未来发展做好准备。开放式楼梯和面向广场的不同阳台呈现出丰富的视角，促进员工之间的交流。

▼墙面浮雕，the wall relief

The ensemble consists of two parts: the “private” building and the “public” forum – the forest of columns. The L-shaped, sustainable building with a ground floor and four upper floors is designed for up to 500 workplaces. The ground floor contains the staff restaurant, six customer service rooms, an auditorium, and a conference area. In addition, three listed wall reliefs from the former Robotron building, which previously occupied this location, are exhibited there. The reliefs were created as commissioned works in 1969 by the then young artists Arno Rink, Frank Ruddigkeit, and Klaus Schwabe. The large-format works by these pioneers of the Leipzig School reflect the euphoric zeitgeist of the “Sputnik decade” and “Eastern Modernism”. The SAB sees the recovery, restoration, and public presentation of the pieces in its new building as a commitment to the heritage of the site and as a gesture of greeting to the city of Leipzig and its vivid arts scene. The bank’s office floors, which house, among other things, the thinktank and workspace called InnoLab, are designed to offer the greatest possible flexibility in order to be prepared for future developments in the working world. Open staircases and different balconies facing the forum reveal a variety of perspectives and promote communication amongst the staff.

▼柱子森林与建筑实体，the forest of columns and the building entity © Strohhut Pictures

▼透过柱子森林望向周边街区，view to the neighborhoods through the forest of columns © Strohhut Pictures