The very first work of H&deM was a suit. In Basel’s 1978 carnival, two young architects transformed their brass band march into an artistic action. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both born in this city in the year 1950 and both graduates of Zur
Late 20th century art can be characterized, in part, by the search for origins. This is something relatively new. Avant-garde artists at the beginning of this century believed they were writing the last page of an evolving history of art – and the fi
In the past few years, Herzog & de Meuron have established themselves with astonishing brilliance at the centre of European architecture. Their architecture is intelligent, beautiful, rigid, sensual, tense, yet apparently serene. While early work
H&deM have earned both critical esteem and popular applause without participating in the frivolous games of the media. The two decades of architectural work produced by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has been consistently rep
Well-known for its designer furniture factory in the German part of the region, Weil am Rhein is part of the imprecise belt of outer suburban Basel. This photographic studio is located in what was formerly one of the older suburbs of villas in a land
Ten kilometres inland from the Liguria coast, this stone house rises like a watchtower intuitively seeking out the marine horizon. Built on the remains of a demolished construction, the tower overlooks a valley of olive groves and stone terraces that
The old quarter of Basel has slowly dispensed with the most picturesque features of its architecture, but its medieval origins are still easily legible in the fragmented property divisions evidenced by the dividing walls. A new construction replaces
This competition-winning proposal is inserted in the irregular, organic universe of a courtyard hidden behind the terse alignment of the facades that run along Hebelstrasse. This intimate space, which is accessed through a narrow carriageway, feature
Laufen, in the Swiss canton of Jura, is best known outside the country for being the headquarters of the famous throat lozenge manufacturer Ricola. A new warehouse was required to automate the storage of lozenges and medicinal herbs. The starting poi
Like many railway stations which used to be part of the urban periphery, the Basel station has been engulfed by the city’s growth, giving rise to unresolved encounters between different building structures. As part of the rezoning project aimed at in
As part of the rezoning plan for the area of land surrounding Basel station, a new signal box has been built to provide a highly automated system of point switching. The compact tower form is largely determined by its functions and positioning; this
When the suva insurance company drafted the brief for the extension to its head office in Basel, it was left to the architects to decide whether to preserve the existing building that partially closes the corner of a closed city block or demolish it
Set on the Swiss-French border, straddling Basel and the neighboring town of St. Louis, the Pfaffenholz Sports Centre is constructed proof of the good relations between neighbors that do not appear on the precise lines drawn on the maps. Built on Fre
In this residential suburb of Munich, the large plots allotted to the villas merge in a sort of on-going park with consolidated plantations of birch trees, willows and a few evergreens. In the midst of dense foliage alongside a 1960s house, another s
Set within the second growth ring of the city of Dijon, the campus at the University of Burgundy has been reorganized under a joint collaboration between the studio and Rémy Zaugg. A new thoroughfare known as ‘Twenty First Century Avenue’ structures
Awooded site between the Rhine-Rhone Canal and the River Ill in Brunnstatt, on the southern outskirts of the French town of Mulhouse, was chosen as the position for the second building commissioned by the Ricola company. Serving as both factory and w
Like so many parts of the former East Germany, the urban landscape of Eberswalde still preserves the wounds of the war in its medieval area along with the typical prefab block architecture of the socialist period. The Technical University, founded as
As part of a long term decentralization process, the Tate Gallery commissioned the renovation of its London headquarters in Millbank and its Liverpool site to James Stirling, its branch in St. Ives, Cornwall, to Evans and Shale, and will now move its
Only a few kilometers from the Swiss-German border, this house is set in a north-eastern French district characterized by a landscape of rolling hills. Over a substratum of clay that gives the town its name, the extensive meadows are dominated by sca
The canton Hospital in Basel is an organic collection of buildings with an accumulation of constructive and compositive types that does not reveal a structured idea of the complex. The pharmaceutical centre where medicines are produced and supplied f
Collaboration with other disciplines is a distinctive feature of the studio, one of the longest-standing, most frequent and intense being with the artist Rémy Zaugg. Beginning in 1990 with the rezoning plan for the Burgundy University in Dijon, the l
Near san francisco, the Napa valley retreats up the ridges of the mountain chain that defines the Pacific side of North America, its benign climate being used for the production of great wines known as Napanouk since the beginning of the century. The
Following the crisis in the German mining industry which left its mark on the Rhur basin – a desolate scene of pollution and unemployment – Duisburg is one of the areas that has benefitted most from the steps taken to revive the landscape and the eco
After the automated lozenge warehouse in Laufen and the factory in Mulhouse, the Ricola marketing offices, again in Laufen, are the latest chapter in the collaborations of the studio with this herbal throat lozenge company. In an anonymous context ma
Jacques herzog and Pierre de Meuron met Richard and Pamela Kramlich in 1997 through Christian and Cherise Moueix, for whom they were then building the Dominus Winery in Napa Valley. That same year the Kramlichs had created a foundation devoted to med
At the end of Steinenvorstadt, Basel’s ‘movie street’, the new cinemas beside the Heuwaage viaduct mark the transition between the city and the green belt that accompanies the Birsig River down to its mouth in the Rhine River. Their insertion in the
In Tenerife the relationship between land and sea is a succession of abrupt transitions, the physical expression of its volcanic activity. The planning of the link quay in Santa Cruz harbour, the starting point for the transformation of the seafront,
The Centro Cultural will become a new and lively place for people of all generations and with various interests. In order to achieve that, the architectural concept promotes that the different activities and spaces of the Center interfuse and interfl
Cottbus is a small town near the border between Poland and the former East Germany. Its university campus is still dominated by a uniform post-war physiognomy. These new buildings speak of the modernisation its infrastructure underwent in the 1990s,
Situado en el parque Golden Gate de San Francisco, el Museo Memorial M. H. de Young alberga diversas colecciones representativas de una gran variedad de culturas del mundo, desde los inicios de la historia de la humanidad hasta el momento presente. E
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