Christ & Gantenbein Bovenbouw Architectuur    Belgium   The firms Christ & Gantenbein (Switzerland) and Bovenbouw Architectuur (Belgium) have won the competition to design the new Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M KKA) on what is currently the site of the Court of Appeal in the Waalsekaai neighbor

Christ & Gantenbein OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The rectangular volumes that remain by Floralia Hall are drastically altered, making the original neoclassical appearance disappear. This huge central nave functions as an interior extension of the public space surrounding it, now transformed into a

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Crossing a bridge is always an experience, but even more in Switzerland. From the Kappelbrücke in Lucerne with its paintings depicting events of the city’s history to the acrobatic Salginatobel built by Robert Maillart, the country is a fertile field

Christ & Gantenbein   France   More than a hundred social housing units rest on a refurbished base with technical workshops of the RATP (Parisian transport office). The overlapping functions determine the position of the entrances, the vertical circulations, and the resulting urba

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Reinforcing the connection between the museum and city, two new openings accessible via the arcaded sidewalk will be the primary change to the outer shell. The garden is to be doubled in size, while its interior courtyards and terrace will be updated

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   The connection between the two buildings is assured by new stairs that lead to basement exhibition spaces in the new building. This solution respects the integrity of the existing design while ensuring a cohesive spatial experience for the visitors.

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   To update the hospital complex to modern medical practice, the buildings will be attached to the existing by gardens, courtyards, and terraces. The modular floor plans in the two volumes of the first phase make future adjustments possible...

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   The main facade of the medical facility takes on a representative role with a loggia that, from the street, differentiates the spaces destined for public use from the office and lab areas, distributed in the modular column-free floors of the rear vol

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   Semi-circular piers of red brick rhythmically order the facade in bays of various width that function as mediating elements between two urban realities: the traditional row of buildings and the modern, large-scale developments...

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   The proposal replaces the concrete bridge from 1949 with a new stone bridge with five openings. The new design is more than a transport infrastructure: it connects the urban tissue and forms a public space at the entrance to the old town...

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   This is the third building that the Basel practice of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein raises on the Roche Pharma campus in Grenzah-Wyhlen, a German municipality near the Swiss border. Standing 23 meters and making a 50x30-meter footprint, the

Christ & Gantenbein Baukuh YellowOffice   Switzerland   With a series of delicate interventions such as the insertion of new pavilion to optimize access points or a continuous ramp connecting various levels, the project seeks revitalizing the museum complex and removing barriers between the existing build

Harquitectes Christ & Gantenbein   Spain   The new volume is placed opposite the current venue, the Meier building, with the purpose of including the convent and chapel on Plaça dels Angels, which will become the MACBA’s new center of gravity and a symbolic axis connecting the whole public s

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Apart from harboring new services for the renowned chocolate company, the project seeks to generate an immersive and dynamic spatial experience. The new flagship building is a rectangular brick volume that reformulates the appearance of the chocolati

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Located in a picturesque valley, a building quotes from local forms and the industrial aesthetic to house a customer center and testing facility for a global technology firm. A structural grid pursues optimal occupation of the irregular site, with fi

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   The eclectic amalgam of buildings forming the city’s foremost museum welcomes a fragmented volume that rises on the border of the park and traces the new exhibition route. The new wing attaches itself to the academic composition to close it off, but

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Located on the square of the railway station of the Swiss municipality of Pratteln, this mixed-use building is the result of superposing two constructions differing in form and function: a podium and a tower. The expressivity achieved through the sup

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Christ & Gantenbein   Belgium   A latent symbol of a declining automobile industry, the Citroën showroom and workshop form an urban island that dominates the north of the ringroad alongside the Brussels canal. The project is intended to revive the importance of this place and resto

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   A skin of semi-cylinders of glass surrounds the main room unveiling the activities taking place inside the building and composing a solid prism with industrial echoes. The building opens up to the square through a large foyer... [+]

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Reinterpreting the classical museum on a contemporary note, the new volume has an underground connection with the old construction, beneath the street that separates the two buildings.

Enrique Morillo   For anyone unfamiliar with Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, this publication is useful. If it is true that architects think with eyes, one need not have crossed paths with these Swiss to see that their gaze is inquisitive and sharp. Marking 2

With the scheme it drew up for the competition to extend the Kunstmuseum Basel, Christ & Gantenbein – set up in 1998 by Emanuel Christ (Basel, 1970) and Christoph Gantenbein (St. Gallen, 1971) – became known outside Switzerland, and it has since cons

El Kunstmuseum de Basilea alberga una importante colección de pintura y grabado europeos; su sede actual es un edificio de clasicismo tardío en el centro de la ciudad, que se ha quedado pequeño para las crecientes necesidades de la institución. Por e

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