Architect’s rendering of the new ESO Headquarters Extension (nighttime)

This artist’s rendering shows how the extension of the ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany will look at night when completed towards the end of 2013. The innovatively styled new office building, designed by architects Auer+Weber+Assoziierte, will allow ESO to bring all its Garching staff, some of whom are currently in temporary offices or other buildings on the Garching campus, back together on a single site. The building will be the cradle of the technological innovations needed for ESO’s ambitious projects such as the European Extremely Large Telescope.