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Geneva Dance Pavilion, building, Switzerland – design by Mauro Turin Architectes – the beginning of the project is marked by the abstraction of the gutter of the Place Charles-Sturm: Swiss building design.
The view is one of a kind. You might imagine you‘re in South America or upstate New York, and it is really hard to believe that Basel is just 25 minutes away. As the last house to be built in Nuglar, in the canton of Solothurn, House D is privileged.
Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with BBZ landscape architects has recently won the invited international competition for the revitalization / development of Kappel Monastery near Zürich / Switzerland.
The topographical situation on the Rotsee-Delta is a unique landscape, embedded in between two hill chains the lake is very calm.
The city of Emmen has announced that investment corporation Senn BPM AG together with MVRDV are the winners of the Feldbreite competition for a housing block with 95 homes of 16 different types.
The Allianz Headquarters is an office complex occupying two buildings linked by a series of bridges and interlocked by a central staircase rising the height of the entire building within a centrally positioned void.
In the follow-up course the students were challenged to integrate the functional requirements to an external timber wall – for example its loadbearing and insulating behaviour as well as its constructive waterproofing – into their designs systems as generative parameters.
The Baselworld pavilion by Japanese architect Toyo Ito uses a facade of wooden lattice, glass, and metal supported by a steel framework.
The Park Hotel is located in a strategic point in Heiden, where different urban conditions come together. The landscape continuity crossing the plot area, the particular building density and its relevant position from the main entrance to the city.
The main objective of the new primary school Erlenmatt design is to serve the demands of the educational demands an appropriate architectural condition.
The design of the future Cinema Hall was inspired by a strong urban vision; the will to create a building that is at the same time unique and harmonious, which refuses to be a stand-alone project by participating actively to the landscape of the city of Locarno.
In the centre of Erlenbach, a town on the edge of Lake Zurich, a new housing building has been constructed on the premises of the Schärer Erlenbach company. The former factory, where machines for the textile industry were produced and which used to be so important for the region, has also received a new front building.
Zoo Basel is embedded in the city and used as a park by residents and visitors. The redesigning of the green area Nachtigallenwäldeli and the construction of the new Ozeanium.
The point of departure was the rectangular volume, from which emerged a configuration of apposite urban proportions.
Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.
Du Parc Kempinski Private Residences is an address defined by its historical journey spanning a hundred years.
The first stage of the EPFL campus was organized by a potentially infinite spacial and functional grid. But what was meant to be a highly flexible and open scheme turned out to be highly problematic, resulting in mainly backside situations.