Christ & Gantenbein Harquitectes   Spain   The team comprising the Barcelona studio Harquitectes and the Basel firm Christ & Gantenbein has won the competition to enlarge and reorganize the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). A new building on Plaça dels Àngels will contain a gal

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 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   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 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

Christ & Gantenbein OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   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.

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