Herzog & de Meuron   With the ambitious idea of giving Hong Kong a world-class artistic hub, the West Kowloon Cultural District envisions an enclave of new spaces for educational activities and the arts within a large park beside Victoria Harbour. Among them, the M+ Muse

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   Herzog & de Meuron’s first Korean project will be inaugurated in Seoul in September 2021. Located in the heart of Cheongdam Dong, a ward of Gangnam District, the triangular concrete volume harbors offices for ST International and exhibition galleries

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Along San Francisco Bay, Power Station is a new extension of the Dogpatch neighborhood that includes parks, offices, residential buildings (two of these designed by Foster + Partners), and mixed-use constructions like Station A, an early-20th-century

Herzog & de Meuron JV Vogt   Russia   Several historic maps were overlapped to reveal the gradual changes of the site’s identity and geometry. The new park retraces the former shoreline of the Neva River, reorganizes urban flows, integrates into the city, and connects green public spaces

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 resulte

Herzog & de Meuron Vogt Landscape Architects   Germany   The Basel firm Herzog & de Meuron, in collaboration with Zurich-based Vogt Landscape Architects, has won the competition for the urban development – including apartments, workplaces, and recreational areas – of Hamburg's Grasbrook district. The proje

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Along the A13 highway outside Andeer, a municipality in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, the firm Herzog & de Meuron will build a chapel with four 10-meter-high white walls positioned at angles to support each other in a play of inclinations. Chal

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron won the bid to build a museum devoted to the history and construction of China’s Grand Canal – a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014 – in the city of Hangzhou, at the junction of the canal and the Hanggang Rive

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   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Jacques Herzog   Early on, I had two great masters: an artist, Joseph Beuys, and an architect, Aldo Rossi. With them I began to lay the intellectual and formal foundations of my architecture. Rossi was in our time the best-known professor at the school, and he had pl

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

Domus   Jacques Herzog   In this open letter addressed to David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog reflects on the active role that architects ought to play in post-Covid society.

The first building of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in Toronto – to be caried out in collaboration with the local firm Quadrangle – will also, when completed, be the city’s tallest, and perhaps the first Canadian sequel of the ‘supertall’ fever

For centuries architects were at the service of religious powers-that-be, and temples had priority over all other kinds of buildings. Maybe this explains why so many of today’s veterans are so eager to be commissioned to build churches and chapels. A

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Basel, to many, means pharmaceutical industry and finance; to others, museums and the art market; and to not a few, Roger Federer and Herzog & de Meuron, the gold standards of tennis and architecture. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron round the

United in professional practice and friendship, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together turn 70 this spring, and Basel, the birthplace of both, celebrates with them. Though the best of architects are not always prophets in their own land, these

Herzog & de Meuron, celebrating a career

Louisiana Channel   “It’s all about the architecture we can do, and not about us being the architect.” Enjoy this cordial conversation between two long-time friends and titans of architecture...

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While construction is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the project, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. This entangled relationship

Jacques Herzog Pierre de Meuron   Thoughts and observations triggered by a visit to Farnsworth House

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 352 Pages 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2007   - 368 Pages 

Jacques Herzog Pierre de Meuron Roger Diener Marcel Meili Christian Schmid   Basel  2005  
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