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;

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   China   A park comprising pavilions of widely differing forms, sizes, and functions is now under construction in Jinhua. The theme of each pavilion was chosen by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The architectural concepts developed for the new city center of th

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   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   El edificio 1, situado en Basilea, alcanza los 178 metros de altura, tiene 41 plantas y presenta una sección en forma de cuña aterrazada. Su tamaño es el resultado de los requerimientos de la empresa Roche. Este nuevo edificio alberga aproximadamente

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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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   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, 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

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