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va-based staff have moved from its six offic- es in the city to this single location, the building will start to live up to its official name: ‘1Roof’. Although Lombard Odier has a flexible policy that allows staff to work up to two days per week away from the office (depending on what team they are in), the building – which is 117m long, 70m wide and has an internal area of 60,000 sq m – has capacity for 2,600 people. It seems like a clear sign that further growth is on the agen- da. As recently as 1999, this bank with 229 years of history had 1,000 employees; glob- ally, it now has 3,000. As one would expect, environmental sus- tainability has been considered. The bank hopes it will achieve the highest level in three widely recognised sustainable con-


struction certifications, including BREEAM. Among several energy-saving measures, the building will be connected to the GeniLac system, which uses the water of Lake Gene- va to heat and cool buildings. Many of the chairs have also been repurposed from the bank’s old offices – something that may grat- ify some of its more parsimonious clients. There are parking spaces for 444 bikes and electric charging points. The parts of the buildings with the best


views – the vista of the lake and Mont Blanc – have been reserved for communal areas (such as the 500-cover restaurant and an open-plan room for informal internal meet- ings and catch-ups, pictured on p56) and client meeting rooms. ‘We had a lot of discussions about the


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