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

Herzog & de Meuron   Russia   Skolkovo is the Russian government initiative for a new urban community at the 3rd ring of Moscow, 17 km west from the Kremlin. Built ex nihilo, the aim of Skolkovo is to create a globally reputed center for innovative technology. The original master

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The extension of the original museum, a project by Herzog & de Meuron dating from 1999 on an old mill that was closed down in 1972 after successive transformations since it was erected in 1860, discreetly joins the brick structures along the dock...

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Avec ma main brulée, j’ecris sur la nature du feu. This line of Flaubert, which Ingeborg Bachmann used as Malina’s guiding thread, also serves as a background for Treacherous Transparencies, the most important critical work of Jacques Herzog and Pier

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Triggered by a visit to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, the most important critical work of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to date uses transparency as a litmus paper for examining the nature of artistic and architectural modernity, in a j

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This is the third monograph that AV devotes to Herzog & de Meuron. The first one was published in 1999, and dealt with the career of the Swiss since their beginnings in the now mythical Basel carnival of 1978, and up to the Ricola Marketing Building,

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Romanticism is an attitude and a period. As an aesthetic attitude, it colors the entire oeuvre of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, from the naturalistic primitivism of materials, textures and patinas to the unexpected violence of scars or skins;

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This magazine devoted an issue to Herzog & de Meuron in 1999, and after only five years we return to the Basel architects to take stock of the remarkable production of the last period, that has witnessed the global expansion of the firm and the a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Herzog & De Meuron reinvented themselves in 1998. During the design of the Ricola offices there was one of those genetic mutations that generate a new organism, because the creative spark of this transformation lit up a formal fire that is still burn

Christiane Gabler   Al bajarse en la estación de metro Fröttmaning, a media hora de trayecto desde el centro de Múnich, el viajero no encuentra en principio nada que le llame la atención. El entorno donde se halla el nuevo estadio del bastión del fútbol muniqués reúne l

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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