Luis Fernández-Galiano   The completion in 2016 of half a dozen prominent works is the drumroll that marks this fourth monographic issue.The projects completed in Hong Kong, New York, Milan, or Beirut are all significant, but none as iconic as the two that open the issue, th

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Avec ma main brulée, j’ecris sur la nature du feu. This line of Flaubert, which Ingeborg Bachmann used as Malina’s guiding thread, also serves as a background for Treacherous Transparencies, the most important critical work of Jacques Herzog and Pier

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The Tate Modern has had a substantial impact on London since the opening of the first phase in 2000. Beyond its influence on the city’s artistic, cultural and social life, it has been a key for the urban development of the South Bank. Keeping up with

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The former Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison, known to the locals as ‘Tai Kwun’ (or big station), is a walled compound of heritage buildings at the commercial center of Hong Kong Island. Established by the British after 1

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   This skyscraper soaring 250 meters above street level rises as a contradiction to the anonymity, uniformity, and repetition that reigns among the residential towers which have been going up in recent years, proposing instead a return to the individua

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Originally a southern backwater largely dependent on tourism, over the past fifty years Miami has grown into a Latin American metropolis, a haven for penniless Haitians, Cuban professionals, fugitive plutocrats, and other malefactors of great wealth.

Herzog & de Meuron   France   Situated on the outskirts of Paris, at the Porte de Versailles and beside the Parc des Expositions, Triangle will be a visual reference on a metropolitan scale. Its singular shape – an irregular pyramid with a trapezoid base – contrasts with the uniq

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Helsinki Dreispitz, a project initiated and developed by Herzog & de Meuron, comprises an archive and apartment building on Helsinki-Strasse at the Dreispitz area in Basel. The Dreispitz, an urban site covering some fifty hectares, is privately owned

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located outside Basel, in the valley of the Wiese River, which is a tributary of the Rhine, the Riehen Commune called a competition in 1979 for the purpose of refurbishing its municipal swimming pools, but it took up to the year 2007 for the project

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   The new headquarters for BBVA go up on a site facing the A1 highway on the periphery of Madrid, surrounded by newly built offices, commercial buildings, and scattered residential developments. The site is placed on the north of the Paseo de la Castel

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   As part of the redefinition of the area Porta Volta, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is relocating its seat to the northern center of Milan. Together with the building of Fondazione, the project includes the development of two further buildings, m

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Roche Building 1 goes up in Basel’s new area of urban development. The building, standing 178 meters tall, counts a total of 41 floors and presents a profile shaped like a terraced wedge. This new office building houses approximately 2,100 workplaces

Herzog & de Meuron   Lebanon   Beirut lies in the heart of the developing Middle East. Having always been a cosmopolitan city, it is a focal point as a cultural and geographical link between Europe and the Middle East. The history of Beirut could hardly be more diverse; remains of

Herzog & de Meuron   France   The project to extend the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar encompasses three dimensions: urban development, architecture and museography. It centers on the issues of reconstruction, simulation and integration. Two building complexes – the medieval convent

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The masterplan of the Novartis Campus in Basel calls for a uniform building height of 23.5 m. The office building Asklepios 8 is taller because it is situated at the outermost corner of the campus, where the open expanse of the river Rhine invites a

Herzog & de Meuron   France   As in a classical temple, a curtain of columns on a plinth rises on the plain of Bordeaux. But unlike ancient temples, this stadium turns its podium into a very emphatic stairway, and the result is a blurring of the lines between interior and exterio

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in a half-agricultural and half-industrial landscape, this building for the company Ricola annually processes nearly 1.5 million kilograms of fresh herbs as ingredients for its cough drops and breath mints. The herbs have to be dried, mixed,

Herzog & de Meuron   Brazil   Mãe Luiza is not a typical Favela – its identity and character have been formed both by the unique setting and the creativity of the people of this strong community. Mãe Luiza is nestled between the protected natural zone of the dunes of Natal and th

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Mount Chäserrugg is the easternmost peak of the seven mountains that make up the Churfirsten Massif. It rises up gently from the Toggenburg to the north reaching up to 2,262 meters, and becomes a steep cliff to the south, plummeting almost 1,900 mete

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The present University Children’s Hospital, situated in Zurich’s city center, has already shown some limitations related with the lack of space and old infrastructure, thus calling for a new up-to-date expansion. The new hospital will be located near

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The School’s aim is to become a center of excellence for the study of government and public policy within Oxford University, teaching the practice of government in ways which will strengthen communities, create opportunities and foster cooperation ac

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Zellweger park, a former industrial site in Uster, Switzerland, has been converted into a mixed-use neighborhood featuring high-quality architecture and contemporary art. Within this framework, Herzog & de Meuron has completed a building containi

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Placed on the coastline of the city of Sunny Isles Beach, in Florida, Jade Signature is a building rooted directly in the landscape and the city around it. The street connects to the lobby, the lobby overlooks the pool, and the pool is on the beach.

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   Set against the backdrop of the existing Canary Wharf buildings, One Park Drive is a residential tower adding a new dimension to an area dominated by commercial space. Anchoring the western end of the new district, the circular tower is viewed from a

Herzog & de Meuron   Russia   Skolkovo is the Russian government initiative for a new urban community at the 3rd ring of Moscow, 17 km west from the Kremlin. Built ex nihilo, the aim of Skolkovo is to create a globally reputed center for innovative technology. The original master

Herzog & de Meuron   Japan   Contrary to expectations for a site that is home to so many luxury brands, Miyuki Street in Aoyama Tokyo is not particularly beautiful or elegant. The architecture is heterogeneous – a hodgepodge of freestanding buildings of different heights and sha

Herzog & de Meuron   China   M + is a cultural center for 20th and 21st century art, design, architecture, and the moving image. As such, it embraces the entire spectrum of spaces, means of display and activities related to exhibiting and viewing these media. The spaces range fr

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   Hidden under a sawtooth factory building, the Vitra Design Museum collection, ranked among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide, has never been on permanent display to the public. The Schaudepot has the appearance of an industria

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   SBB is one of the largest landowners in Switzerland. This national railway company owns land in prime locations of the urban centers across the country. This previously underutilized potential of real estate has been increasingly developed in the las

Herzog & de Meuron   Israel   The shift from print to digital calls for a rethinking of the library both as an institution and a building typology. To sustain their relevance in the information age, contemporary libraries must function for existing users by providing the operatio

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   Located in the area of Fulham in southwest London, a sports facility since 1877, the stadium is home of Chelsea Football Club. It has been subject to several renovations where many additional features were added through the years. The project to reva

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   In the middle of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) – a future leading center for biomedical development with institutions and companies from the education, health care, science and research sectors –, the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is

Herzog & de Meuron   Canada   Images of the final design for the Vancouver Art Gallery – which will be the first Canadian work of the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron – have been unveiled. The structure maintains the stacked form of the original project, presented in 2015, but t

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the quietest part of the fairgrounds, the Slow Food pavilion is made up of three wooden-framed cabins arranged around a triangular courtyard.

Germany   The choice of the archaic shape of a house, the urban idea of having the building occupy the entire plot of land, and the cross-shaped circulation on the interior of the project for the Museum of the 20th Century – all these decisions are inseparably

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Here come the boxes. After the formal feast of the eighties, architects rubbed ash on their foreheads and pencils. Now, with the following decade more than halfway through, the effects of such penitential discipline begin to be felt in a geometric fl

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Swiss Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron have built a Californian winery for the prestigious Bordeaux viticulturist Christian Moueix.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The architecture of a Europe that is at present launching a new single currency vacillates between Dutch subversion and Swiss minimalist rigor.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A Madrid exhibition explores forms of collaboration between architects and artists through five examples in European cities.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Herzog & de Meuron have transformed a power station on the Thames into a new museum for the contemporary collections of London’s Tate Gallery.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The works of the Dutch Rem Koolhaas or the Swiss Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron show the reproductive and mutant capacity of forms.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The catalog is entitled Natural History, but the work of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron presents itself in Montreal like nature without history. Unlike the accelerated time of general history, the slow time of the natural world composes a still

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Peter sloterdijk begins his trilogy Spheres by quoting Gaston Bachelard: “The difficulty we had to overcome... consisted of staying clear of any geometric evidence. In other words, we had to take off from a kind of intimacy of roundness.” And the Ger

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Tradition without folklore, emotion without tears, and ornament without pastiche: these are the wickers with which Herzog & de Meuron have braided the project for the City of Flamenco of Jerez. At once cultivated and popular, the proposal of the Swis

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Barcelona is the inventor of the virtuous triangle: the event generates urban development, this in turn boosts economic growth, and prosperity induces the organization of new events. That grand events leave urban fruits is common knowledge. Universa

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are to receive their Pritzker in Monticello, a happy coincidence befitting their status as founding fathers of the architecture of the new century. Jefferson’s Virginia mansion, a landmark of neoclassical architect

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Algae, vin chaud and tangerine are among the ingredients of Rotterdam, the perfume produced by Herzog & de Meuron to celebrate the exhibition of their work in the Dutch city. The Olfactory Object, as the architects call it, contains hashish, patchoul

Luis Fernández-Galiano   It floats and it has a green wall. If you ask a casual visitor about the reasons for the success of the building, this is the answer you are going to get. If you ask a critic, the argument will probably include the folded landscape of the plaza, the