Durst has opened a futuristic new headquarters and customer experience centre in Brixen, Italy. The design incorporates a flat, floating ‘wing’ with six floors, which architect Monovolume based on a 50 year-old idea for a tower which was never built.
Over 1000 guests attended the inauguration ceremony for the building, where they heard speakers including Durst’s co-owners Christoph Gamper, Harald Oberrauch, and Christof Oberrauch as well as the mayor of Brixen, Peter Brunner.
‘This is a very proud day in the long history of Durst,’ Mr Gamper told guests. ‘We do not fear the future. We are here to shape the future. We have the best employees, the best customers and the best technology. Driven by the mantra of innovation, Durst offers complete solutions from pixel to output. Here at our headquarters in South Tyrol is where things come full circle with the mountain habitat and the aim of focusing not just on the machines but also on the people behind them.
‘Here it is not a question of appearance but of essence, of conveying the idea to the outside world, of creating a protected space for innovation, of bringing together very special people who have devoted themselves to a vision: to create something new, to inspire, and to always ask the next question.’
Durst employs more than 700 people and has more than 20 subsidiaries around the world. The firm is more than 80 years old and is closely associated with the Oberrauch family, which is now in the third generation of ownership.
