Kirchplatz Office / Residence: Muttenz/Basel
The design of this adaptive re-use project was born initially out of a design competition initiated by the City of Muttenz/Basel.
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The design of this adaptive re-use project was born initially out of a design competition initiated by the City of Muttenz/Basel.
The Kunsthalle Zürich, one of the world’s leading contemporary art institutions, will officially open its doors to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräukunst complex in Zürich.
The competition asks for a big school in Allscwhil, a low density residential zone, in the only free spot of a certain dimension in the area.
The new Jansen Campus lies in the village of Oberriet, in the Rhine valley, one of the most industrialised areas of Switzerland.
The new Collège des Tuillières is an integral part of an urban environment with an architecture inspired by Le Corbusier’s “Radiant city”.
Built in the heart of the village, slightly off the main street, the old school building has been preserved and reallocated as a municipal administration building.
The expansion of the existing sports hall is the result of a competition and left little margin of freedom because of a limited perimeter.
The village of Apples is located at the foot of the Jura mountains, north of the city of Morges. To address today’s strong population growth in the region, a dozen municipalities joined forces to build a new school complex.
The village of Villaz-Saint-Pierre is built on a hilltop facing the Plateau and the Fribourg Alps. The new multipurpose sports hall is located below the church and the village square.
A Swiss congregation commissioned Dutch-based practice Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion of the prominently located ‘Villa Erica’ boarding school in Locarno.
The placement of the new auditorium design by Valerio Olgiati Architect creates a new central square within the overall structure of the Plantahof agriculture school. The high façade holds together the new piazza.
A new impressive retail and office building has been created at the Liestal Station Square. The striking six-storey building occupies the triangular site between the station and the head office of Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB).
Built on the campus of EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, The Rolex Learning Center designed by the internationally acclaimed Japanese architectural practice, SANAA, will open on 22 February 2010.
This project presents an opportunity to radically question the boundaries, to write a poem adventurous and invigorating on the juxtaposition of unusual situations : a mixture of professional and private lives, a vital and essential complicity between the fisherman and lake.
This building was designed from the inside, he reformulates the traditional relationship to land, to nature, to the view: an overhaul of the design of the habitat that goes unnoticed at first glance but its architecture offers a new pulse to life, liberty, emotion …
The e group brief asked the architects to imagine living spaces always becoming, places that requalify the individual and collective work: communication, transparency, fun at work, exchange, adaptation.
gmp • Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners win competition for a sports complex and urban re-design in Lausanne (“Métamorphose – Prés-de-Vidy”)