The very earliest sketches for the museum at Henley-on-Thames were inspired by local river boathouses and the traditional wooden barns of Oxfordshire – a simple and clear architectural idea that could easily be understood in context to its immediate
This project is part of the revitalization initiative undertaken for the Wiener Gürtel, the name given to an oversized and ring-shaped slice that cuts through the urban fabric of the city of Vienna. Historically, the Gürtel has separated the city fro
What is the point of a Schaulager, of a building in which art is stored but still accessible to the public? What ideas about art and collection strategy does it involve, and what is the best architectural and urban concept for it? The brief: a wareho
The head office of Helvetia Patria insurance is located on top of the Girtannersberg, a raised part above the town of St. Gallen, and in the vicinity of other large building complexes. The new extensions of the existing cruciform complex are designed
The client’s express wish, from the outset, was not to have the new REHAB center look or feel like a hospital. What is a hospital? Elevators and indoor corridors, flanked by countless doors leading to rooms or examination rooms, a waiting lounge at t
Deptford is a restructuring area, southeast of London, where the Laban Center has been constructed. St. Paul’s Church becomes an important point of reference for this new complex. The large, embracing gesture of the Laban building volume gives the ef
The center of Munich breathes that unreal immaculate air provided by full employment gives and the absence of mendicity – that has been driven out of the city by force –; the block next to the Theatine Strasse belonging to the Hypobank, is a built sy
En la pintoresca villa austriaca de Langenlois, dedicada desde hace más de 900 años a la elaboración de vinos blancos espumosos, se ha construido un nuevo Centro del Vino, parte de un complejo cultural y recreativo que pretende dar a conocer internac
There where the boundaries of the city start to blur, on one of the typical peripheries of the Ticino region, in southern Switzerland, a family house tries to emerge from the landscape by way of strong volumetric shifts. Just like a rock from the nea
The 35 heights of the Mischek tower – named after the developing company, very much involved in its design –, rise over Donau City, a site which has grown during the last decade opposite the historic Vienna and that houses, amongst other important bu
In the eighties, the new city of Donau intended not only to incorporate the terrains opposite the Danube to Vienna’s development, but also to provide the historic center with an avant-garde and modem counterpoint. Though the urban layout designed to
Llegando en tren a la Ostbahnhof de Basilea sale al encuentro un enorme inmueble de color gris verdoso, que parece de cristal. Con casi casi 200 metros de longitud por 60 de anchura, la llamada Peter Merian Haus se enfrenta a un mar de vías, a un cru
Two distinct urban situations characterize the housing project in 14th arrondissement of Paris; on the one hand, the blocks facing the Rue de Suisses and the Rue Jonquoy and on the other, the courtyard with high fire walls at the back. Two apartment
With its many days of sunshine but chill, the Austrian region of Vorarlberg has all the conditions to justify the domestic uses of solar energy that are now being discovered. Close to Lake Constance and with the Alps as backdrop, the idyllic town of
The grid of farming plots surrounding the edges of the city of Stuttgart provided the conceptual model for enlarging the premises of a high-tech machinery manufacturer. The flexibility needed to adapt to unforeseen future needs explains the organizat
Hay empresas cuyo nombre se asocia al de arquitectos concretos, incluso mucho después de haber superado la imagen corporativa que éstos definieron. Si la arquitectura de Peter Behrens despegó al tiempo que la tecnología de la AEG y los almacenes Scho
Situado a pocos pasos del río, el complejo hospitalario del cantón en Basilea se distancia morfológicamente de los centros de producción con los que las grandes empresas farmacéuticas siembran las orillas del Rin a su paso por la ciudad. Sin una estr
After the automated lozenge warehouse in Laufen and the factory in Mulhouse, the Ricola marketing offices, again in Laufen, are the latest chapter in the collaborations of the studio with this herbal throat lozenge company. In an anonymous context ma
Following the crisis in the German mining industry which left its mark on the Rhur basin – a desolate scene of pollution and unemployment – Duisburg is one of the areas that has benefitted most from the steps taken to revive the landscape and the eco
Near san francisco, the Napa valley retreats up the ridges of the mountain chain that defines the Pacific side of North America, its benign climate being used for the production of great wines known as Napanouk since the beginning of the century. The
Collaboration with other disciplines is a distinctive feature of the studio, one of the longest-standing, most frequent and intense being with the artist Rémy Zaugg. Beginning in 1990 with the rezoning plan for the Burgundy University in Dijon, the l
The canton Hospital in Basel is an organic collection of buildings with an accumulation of constructive and compositive types that does not reveal a structured idea of the complex. The pharmaceutical centre where medicines are produced and supplied f
As part of a long term decentralization process, the Tate Gallery commissioned the renovation of its London headquarters in Millbank and its Liverpool site to James Stirling, its branch in St. Ives, Cornwall, to Evans and Shale, and will now move its
Like so many parts of the former East Germany, the urban landscape of Eberswalde still preserves the wounds of the war in its medieval area along with the typical prefab block architecture of the socialist period. The Technical University, founded as
This text is an excerpt from the conversation between the French Jacques Lucan and the Swiss Martin Steinmann regarding ‘A Matter of Art’, an exhibition on current Swiss architecture held at the Centre Culturel Suisse of Paris in the spring of 2001.
Here come the boxes. After the formal feast of the eighties, architects rubbed ash on their foreheads and pencils. Now, with the following decade more than halfway through, the effects of such penitential discipline begin to be felt in a geometric fl
In the past few years, Herzog & de Meuron have established themselves with astonishing brilliance at the centre of European architecture. Their architecture is intelligent, beautiful, rigid, sensual, tense, yet apparently serene. While early work
Late 20th century art can be characterized, in part, by the search for origins. This is something relatively new. Avant-garde artists at the beginning of this century believed they were writing the last page of an evolving history of art – and the fi
The work of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron is one of the more important of this century’s end. After two decades, their track record has few equivalents in Europe or the world: some 150 projects, with the result of twenty or
