Luis Fernández-Galiano   This is the third monograph that AV devotes to Herzog & de Meuron. The first one was published in 1999, and dealt with the career of the Swiss since their beginnings in the now mythical Basel carnival of 1978, and up to the Ricola Marketing Building,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Romanticism is an attitude and a period. As an aesthetic attitude, it colors the entire oeuvre of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, from the naturalistic primitivism of materials, textures and patinas to the unexpected violence of scars or skins;

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   The buildings of Deusto University have always played a leading role in the shaping of the left bank of the river estuary, testifying in this way to the institution’s commitment to serve the city. For over one hundred years, Deusto has been not only

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   The remodeling of the Plaza de España is the first phase of the project for the transformation of the coastline separating the historic center from the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The project follows a classical urban scheme consisting in the org

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Opened in 1849, the Museum der Kulturen Basel replaced the Augustinian monastery on the Münsterhügel with the classicist building by architect Melchior Berri. The “Universal Museum”, as it was then called, was extended in 1917 by the architects Visch

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   Conceived as a new magnet attracting art-lovers, within the triangle formed by the Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, the new CaixaForum is located on a privileged site of Madrid’s Paseo del Prado, and takes up an old power station –

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Venue of several important international fairs, the Messe Basel facilities concentrate around the Messeplatz, in the Kleinbasel neighborhood. Aiming to reinforce the density of this square – presided by an office building known as Messe Tower; to rec

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The National Stadium is situated in the north of Beijing, on a gentle rise in the center of the Olympic complex. From the beginning of the project, the purpose was to create an urban site with the capacity to attract and generate public activities an

The Kaispecher A, designed by Werner Kallmorgen and constructed between 1963 and 1966, is a brick block displaying an extraordinary rigor and abstraction. The new Philharmonic, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, rises from this massive plinth located on a

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located on the  end of the St. Jakob Park commercial, residential and sports complex, developed around the stadium of the local soccer team – whose design is partly by Herzog & de Meuron –, the St. Jakob Tower welcomes those who approach Basel by tra

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Bond Street area was, with its elegant brick and marble-faced row houses, one of New York’s most exclusive neighborhoods in the early 18th century. The area lost its glamour in the 1840s when Fifth Avenue became more desirable and commercial buil

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   Since its opening in 2000, the Tate Modern has had a substantial impact not only on the artistic, cultural and social life of London – it is, in fact, the world’s most visited contemporary art museum –, but also on the urban design and development of

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Lincoln road is a pedestrian outdoor mall in Miami Beach, filled with restaurants and shops that are open day and night. The project, located on number 1111 of this lively avenue, includes several elements: the existing Suntrust Bank building from th

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Built between 1877 and 1881, the Park Avenue Armory contained the military premises and social center of the Seventh Regiment of the New York Militia, a unit of the National Guard, and comprised two parts: a 5,100 square-meter drill hall covered by a

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   The project for the creation of a museum space in Zaragoza devoted to painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828) started in 2005 after a call for ideas convened by the government of Aragón. The program for th

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in the outskirts of Basel, the headquarters of the biopharmaceutical company Actelion rise as an apparently haphazard superposition of beam-like elements which do not reveal the functional logic of the spaces when seen from outside, in contra

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   Located very close to Basel, the campus of the furniture manufacturer Vitra was begun in 1981, the year in which a major fire destroyed most of the industrial buildings the company had raised on those grounds since 1955. Nicholas Grimshaw designed th

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   Located on the main pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela –‘El Camino de Santiago’ –, Burgos is part of the plan to connect Bilbao and Madrid with high-speed trains. Because of this, the city decided to transfer the train station from the center

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The former Central Police Station and Victoria Prison, located in Hong Kong Island, is a walled compound of heritage buildings established by the British after 1841 as the colony’s main police station, magistracy, and prison. Today the site is one of

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Greater density in contemporary cities has positive effects, so high-rise residential construction is on the increase. However, most of the recent examples of this type have produced anonymous and serial structures where the lack of architectural cha

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The plan for the redevelopment of Miami’s downtown waterfront defines an area for a Museum Park on a privileged site facing Biscayne Bay. The master plan makes the most of the strategic location by a major freeway connecting mainland Miami with Miami

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   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, undergoing construction works since 2010, is pl

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   The Porta Volta area is a historical landmark in Milan, and its urban structure reflects the chronology of growth of the Lombard capital until it became the most important city in northern Italy. The ancient 15th century walls that defined the city’s

Herzog & de Meuron   India   Located in the expansion area of Kolkata, the KMOMA Museum of Modern Art is envisioned as a new fragment of the city. The history of Kolkata, one of the largest cities in India, is closely connected to the evolution of popular Hindu art since the cou

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   OBERKASSEL, A district in Düsseldorf, is an example of how old industrial areas located close to urban centers, and whose production sites have become obsolete, have gradually transformed themselves into residential neighborhoods. During the initial

Herzog & de Meuron   Brazil   One of the regeneration strategies for the decaying urban areas in Brazil is the insertion of cultural and educational venues that can accommodate large events and thus bring enhancements to the surrounding neighborhood while at the same time attract

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   United States   Located in Water Mill, not far from New York, the new Parrish Art Museum stretches as a discreet horizontal prism over the flat landscape of the Hamptons in Long Island, a quiet area that is a popular seaside resort among New Yorkers, and where sever

Herzog & de Meuron   Mexico   The Barranca Museum is spectacularly located at the edge of a canyon, some 600 meters deep, with a view onto the infinite expanses of a rugged and rocky landscape. The location is so extraordinary that the shape of the building, the circulation of vi

Herzog & de Meuron   France   Lyon is distinctive for its strong relationship between the natural and the built environment. Two rivers form a peninsula before they converge, and a chain of hills offers both a beautiful backdrop to the city and panoramic views overlooking it. Ear

Herzog & de Meuron   France   The new Bordeaux Stadium is an expression of a fundamentally new architecture. The pure shape of the volume, by contrast to its light and open structure, creates an at once monumental and graceful architectural piece suited to the landscape of Bordea

Herzog & de Meuron   The peaceful air of this lakeside environment encouraged the client to build a small shelter in contact with nature, as a counterpoint to his imposing, stonework residence. It was to be a private, intimate place within the surrounding park-like groun

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The history of the Burgvogtei, a medieval manor and later the Volkshaus Basel, goes back to the 14th century. The location has always been a site of varied use. In 1845, a brewery with a restaurant was erected there and expanded in 1874 to house a be

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The Schaulager Satellite for the Laurenz Foundation is a temporary structure which was built on the occasion of Art Basel, the premier international art fair held yearly in the city. Located in the main exhibition plaza, in the interior of the fair f

Herzog & de Meuron, Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   Every summer since the year 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the Serpentine Gallery’s Pavilion, located by the permanent building in Kensington Gardens, an area inside London’s Hyde Park. In 2012, the gallery commissioned