Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Switzerland   Surrounded by trees and plenty of greenery, the three residential blocks that form the Chilestieg complex rise on a large plot of land in the municipality of Rümlang. The Swiss commune of 8,000 inhabitants – located close to Zurich’s airport – is mai

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Austria   In the year 2012, the firm Baumschlager Eberle Architekten was commissioned to build a residential development on a prestigious property of the Schlachter family close to Bregenz, on the banks of Lake Constance. There had been a large exuberant garde

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Germany   The project MUF (Modulare Unterkunft für Flüchtlinge) is an initiative of Berlin’s City Hall that has been implemented by different housing associations, in this case Gesobau AG in collaboration with Baumschlager Eberle Architekten and the constructi

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Luxembourg   Until the year 2003, Luxembourg did not have a university of its own. To compensate for this, the government decided to build a campus in Esch-sur-Alzette, the small country’s second largest city. Known as the ‘Cité des sciences,’ the new premises ar

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Switzerland   The housing complex Achslengut II is located in the Swiss city of St. Gallen, between Lake Constance and the Alps. When Baumschlager Eberle Architekten obtained this commission in 1998, the principal parameters of the project had already been establi

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Netherlands   The arcade was the starting point of this office building in Oosterdokseiland, an island close to Amsterdam Central Station. The masterplan specified that all constructions within this new urban development area include a public zone. This naturally

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   China   Like many other cities in China, the capital has in the past few decades grown at a dizzying pace with little regard for the environment. The MOMA towers, developed by the company Modern Group in 2002, were a pioneering example of sustainable residen

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Austria   Ocupying the old site of Wiener Molkerei (Vienna Dairy), close to the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Wiener Prater park, this student residence recreates the essence of the late 19th-century architecture that characterizes the up

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Switzerland   Consisting of hundreds of glass panels, the bright and homogeneous exterior shell is the main feature of the Eichgut building. The skin that covers the whole L-shaped volume protects the 90 units from the nearby presence of railway tracks, and at the

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Liechtenstein   The site of the Hilti Training Centre is at the borderline between the municipality of Schaan and the Rätikon mountain range, in Liechtenstein. The challenge of the project lay in creating a coherent identity in both formal and functional terms, depa

Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Switzerland   The new e-Science laboratory at ETH Zurich had to tackle two fundamental challenges: characterizing the place and giving architectural form to the future of scientific work. The innovative program – research using computational tools and big data – r

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Baumschlager Eberle has given architectural form to a verse of Jorge Guillén which Eduardo Chillida made popular: “How profound is the air.” The sculptor met the poet in Harvard in 1971, and that encounter sparked a friendship, an artist’s book, and

Dietmar Eberle   In his essay Ex Nihilo, on the creation of the two newly planned and constructed cities of Chandigarh in India and Brasília in Brazil, Dutch author Cees Nooteboom employs the word ‘mood’ in its most literal sense. Both cities were created on the draw

Florian Aicher   Florian Aicher (FA): Several years have passed and the interest in 2226 has not subsided. The focus is very much on the subject of energy. Does that do the building justice? Dietmar Eberle (DE): The energy focus is important, but it is a partial asp

Peter Buchanan   Born in 1952, Dietmar Eberle is the principal of Baumschlager Eberle, founded in 1985. For legal and commercial convenience the practice retains this name, even though Carlo Baumschlager moved on in 2010. As well as running what is now a group of ten

Winfried Nerdinger   Architecture, People and Resources