JetBrains Munich
Reimagining work as experience - JetBrains' new office in the Tucherpark.
2026
MIRROR was selected as the winner of an architectural competition initiated by JetBrains, the creators of intelligent software development tools trusted by over 15 million users and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 companies, for its new Munich office in the Tucherpark - a competitive process led by KVL Projektentwicklung Plus with a small group of carefully curated practices.
From 2029, JetBrains will move into the listed Rufhaus, a 1972 Sep Ruf building of 21,500 m², creating workspace for up to 750 people. The brief: find the best way to embody a modern tech company with the highest workplace standards in a heritage building - without diminishing its character, but reinforcing it.
Scope
- Single Tenant Fit-Out for 20,000 m² heritage building
- Differentiated workspace typologies - focus, collaboration, retreat
- Community-anchored circulation - the Community Tower
- Integration of gastronomy, event and recreation spaces
- Heritage preservation in dialogue with contemporary use
Approach
The central idea: turn a horizontal 1970s structure into a vertically connected community. A continuous Community Tower runs through the building, anchoring movement and exchange - a heart that makes the whole building legible as one piece.
Instead of a single office type, we work with precisely defined units (four- to six-person rooms) supplemented by varied collaborative spaces. The room programme is calibrated, not standardised - every typology earns its place.
The existing column-and-slab structure of the Rufhaus is preserved and pushed forward. We treat the heritage not as constraint but as foundation: its rhythm sets the rhythm of the new programme.