Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded by Jacques Herzog and Pierr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This fifth monograph on Herzog & de Meuron can only be presented with a zoom into the small to try out a synthesis, and with a flashback to the remote to look for an origin. The small are two stools: the X-Hocker developed for a house in Switzerland

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Basel, for many, is pharmaceutical industry and finance; for others, museums and the art market; and for not a few, the city of Herzog & de Meuron, the gold standard of architecture, and it is good to retrace the journey that has led them to wield su

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After two decades, the Swiss partners again exhibit in London, a city that saw their first international success with the opening of Tate Modern…

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The new University Children’s Hospital in Zürich-Lengg, Switzerland’s largest medical center for children and adolescents, comprises two buildings: a low-rise acute-care facility on the south plot, and a cylindrical construction for research and teac

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The firm Herzog & de Meuron recently completed the renovation and new extension of the Stadtcasino Basel. Built in 1876, this concert hall is one of Europe’s oldest, world-renowned for its acoustics. What started as an urban study in 2012 has res

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   One park drive, a residential tower in London’s expanding Canary Wharf Estate, shapes the identity of one of the docklands’ last large undeveloped sites. Both iconic in form and human in scale, it is a visual gateway to the dynamic global community i

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The bowery, where 215 Chrystie is located, is a rapidly evolving cultural district in the center of Lower Manhattan. The building’s mass and volume had already been negotiated with the city and the task was to design a hotel and a residential compone

Herzog & de Meuron   China   Devoted to contemporary visual culture, the M+ Museum is the flagship of a project that seeks to transform the city into an artistic hub with an international reach. On the banks of Victoria Harbour, the museum is organized in an inverted T, with a s

Herzog & de Meuron   Denmark   Within a privileged enclave of the city of Hillerød, the New North Zealand Hospital is nestled in nature and contains a garden in its center. The hospital design transcends conventional operational boundaries, which is rarely achieved by the tall, fu

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The master plan proposed for Helvetia Group’s new campus provides space for all Basel-based Helvetia employees, who have been spread across different buildings in the city. The various buildings of the Basel headquarters have grown very heterogeneou

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Basel’s Messeplatz district is home to the convention center (also by Herzog & de Meuron), life science industry, and the Badischer Bahnhof station. The Rosentalturm project aims to enhance local ties with residences, businesses, and green spaces, em

Herzog & de Meuron, Michel Desvigne   France   In 2009, Herzog & de Meuron in cooperation with Michel Desvigne won the invited competition for the master plan of Lyon Confluence 2, an area at the end of the peninsula between the Rhône and Sâone, there where the two rivers converge. Once the urban

Herzog & de Meuron   Israel   The design for the National Library of Israel juxtaposes the desire to react to the architectural traditions of the place with the ambition to make a building that is appropriate for our contemporary time – a library that is welcoming, accessible to

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   A work of Herzog & de Meuron, the building is a triangular glass disc with edges rounded to follow the shape of the site. The complex is characterized by a sawtooth roof that stretches in an east-to-west...

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   A new wing has been discreetly added to the complex of brick industrial buildings that were originally transformed by the studio in the 1990s into a museum of contemporary art. Aligned with the rest of the industrial constructions near Duisburg’s Inn

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The collaboration between the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Herzog & de Meuron began in the 1990s. In the three decades since then, a series of buildings has been realized. A development plan devised in 2014 provides the urban gu

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to restore the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power Station, built in 1904, and transform it into an art manufacturing hub. In the 1950s, half the original structure – the Boiler House – was demolished. The

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The sip main Campus is part of the BaseLink site, a global hub for innovative companies in life sciences, technologies, and research. The project offers flexibility and durability, catering to start-ups, scale-ups, and established companies in the bi

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The latest addition to the Berlin Kulturforum goes up between the Philharmonic of Scharoun and the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, designed as a large gabled volume with multiple accesses that replicates the materiality of the nearby Matth

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   The Royal College of Art has officially opened its new campus in the Battersea district of southwest London, beside its old premises. The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the 2016 competition through a flexible scheme that would adapt to the constan

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   On a busy thoroughfare in the heart of Gangnam District, a hermetic-looking triangular prism contains eleven floors of office spaces and the headquarters of a cultural foundation. The concrete used on the facade has an organic texture achieved throug

Herzog & de Meuron   France   Combining spaces for production and promotional activities, the viticulture facilities of a historic estate seek to formally and conceptually blend into a World Heritage Site. Much like the product embodies the vineyards’ mineral and climatic charact

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The start of construction work on the Titlis Project in Engelberg, scheduled for completion in 2029, has been announced. In 2017, the firm Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to renovate the Alpine resort of Titlis, located 3,000 meters above sea lev

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   FORUM UZH is a new education and research campus in Zurich’s city center, providing space for almost 6,000 people to study, research, and work. The project, designed for a variety of uses, includes a large learning center and library, laboratories, a

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has designed the new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, which is leaving its original site in Overton Park after more than a century. The 10,405-square-meter building will stand at the intersection of Union Avenue and Fro

Herzog & de Meuron   Japan   The fire that in 1872 devastated an area of the city recently renamed Tokyo was seized by the Meiji government as an opportunity to implant on its streets the European-style model of modernization that it was trying to institute in the country. This

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The city of Sion is planning for future growth by transforming predominantly industrial lands south of the historic center into a sustainable, mixed, and green ‘City of the 21st Century.’ The primary focus is the Ronquoz district, ideally located in

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The hermitage Hotel, located on the shore of Lake Lucerne and facing Mount Pilatus, is set to undergo a transformation. The current hotel, a blend of structures from different eras, will be renovated and consolidated into a harmonious, visually strik

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Form, color, and movement are the most obvious of many outstanding aspects in the art of Alexander Calder, maxims that are most visible in his kinetic sculptures. But when beginning to conceive an architecture for the presentation of his work, the pr

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the village of Blevio directly on the shore of Lago di Como, the hotel sits in a parklike garden and is housed within a collection of buildings dispersed throughout the lush landscape. At its heart is the historic Villa Roccabruna, disting

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in Allschwil’s industrial area, east of the city of Basel, the new BaseLink technology campus plans to build more than 75.000 square meters devoted to technology and innovation. The new campus houses HORTUS, which stands for House of Research

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Founded in 1891 with the establishment of the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, and Pharmacy nestled into the landscape of Mount Sutro, the Parnassus Campus of UCSF (University of California San Francisco) benefits from a dramatic location adjacent to

Herzog & de Meuron   Portugal   Situated between the Arrábida Bridge and the Dom Luís Bridge, two architectural icons of Porto, the proposal for a new bridge over the Tagus River takes a new direction as a minimal gesture, abstract and sharp. The bridge will be one of the most visi

Herzog & de Meuron   Greece   The metal roof, a reinterpretation of the Greek agora, presides the garden and marks the start of the stoa, which functions as an axis through the park, the existing building, the historic courtyards, and the exhibition spaces...

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   Seoripul Open Art Storage will serve as the collective archive space for the Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, and the Seoul Museum of History. Beyond its role as a storage facility, it aspires to be a dynamic civic space for Seoul