Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation

Herzog & de Meuron   South Korea   Seoripul Open Art Storage will serve as the collective archive space for the Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, and the Seoul Museum of History. Beyond its role as a storage facility, it aspires to be a dynamic civic space for Seoul

Herzog & de Meuron   Portugal   Situated between the Arrábida Bridge and the Dom Luís Bridge, two architectural icons of Porto, the proposal for a new bridge over the Tagus River takes a new direction as a minimal gesture, abstract and sharp. The bridge will be one of the most visi

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Founded in 1891 with the establishment of the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, and Pharmacy nestled into the landscape of Mount Sutro, the Parnassus Campus of UCSF (University of California San Francisco) benefits from a dramatic location adjacent to

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in Allschwil’s industrial area, east of the city of Basel, the new BaseLink technology campus plans to build more than 75.000 square meters devoted to technology and innovation. The new campus houses HORTUS, which stands for House of Research

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   Form, color, and movement are the most obvious of many outstanding aspects in the art of Alexander Calder, maxims that are most visible in his kinetic sculptures. But when beginning to conceive an architecture for the presentation of his work, the pr

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The hermitage Hotel, located on the shore of Lake Lucerne and facing Mount Pilatus, is set to undergo a transformation. The current hotel, a blend of structures from different eras, will be renovated and consolidated into a harmonious, visually strik

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The city of Sion is planning for future growth by transforming predominantly industrial lands south of the historic center into a sustainable, mixed, and green ‘City of the 21st Century.’ The primary focus is the Ronquoz district, ideally located in

Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the village of Blevio directly on the shore of Lago di Como, the hotel sits in a parklike garden and is housed within a collection of buildings dispersed throughout the lush landscape. At its heart is the historic Villa Roccabruna, disting

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   FORUM UZH is a new education and research campus in Zurich’s city center, providing space for almost 6,000 people to study, research, and work. The project, designed for a variety of uses, includes a large learning center and library, laboratories, a

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The sip main Campus is part of the BaseLink site, a global hub for innovative companies in life sciences, technologies, and research. The project offers flexibility and durability, catering to start-ups, scale-ups, and established companies in the bi

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The collaboration between the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Herzog & de Meuron began in the 1990s. In the three decades since then, a series of buildings has been realized. A development plan devised in 2014 provides the urban gu

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that

Herzog & de Meuron Michel Desvigne   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   Switzerland   Basel’s Messeplatz district is home to the convention center (also by Herzog & de Meuron), life science industry, and the Badischer Bahnhof station. The Rosentalturm project aims to enhance local ties with residences, businesses, and green spaces, em

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The master plan proposed for Helvetia Group’s new campus provides space for all Basel-based Helvetia employees, who have been spread across different buildings in the city. The various buildings of the Basel headquarters have grown very heterogeneou

Herzog & de Meuron   Denmark   Within a privileged enclave of the city of Hillerød, the New North Zealand Hospital is nestled in nature and contains a garden in its center. The hospital design transcends conventional operational boundaries, which is rarely achieved by the tall, fu

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The bowery, where 215 Chrystie is located, is a rapidly evolving cultural district in the center of Lower Manhattan. The building’s mass and volume had already been negotiated with the city and the task was to design a hotel and a residential compone

Herzog & de Meuron   United Kingdom   One park drive, a residential tower in London’s expanding Canary Wharf Estate, shapes the identity of one of the docklands’ last large undeveloped sites. Both iconic in form and human in scale, it is a visual gateway to the dynamic global community i

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The renovation works at the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel involves several spaces. The inauguration of all the new spaces is scheduled for the summer of 2025. First to be completed is ‘The Council,’ a smoking room with two fireplaces, one on ea

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The new University Children’s Hospital in Zürich-Lengg, Switzerland’s largest medical center for children and adolescents, comprises two buildings: a low-rise acute-care facility on the south plot, and a cylindrical construction for research and teac

Herzog & de Meuron   Israel   The design for the National Library of Israel juxtaposes the desire to react to the architectural traditions of the place with the ambition to make a building that is appropriate for our contemporary time – a library that is welcoming, accessible to

Herzog & de Meuron Olsson Lyckefors    Sweden   The twin volume in proportion, scale, and materiality is placed close to its antecessor, leaving between them a narrow courtyard-gallery space that organizes the museum route, and culminates in both facades in a curve that connects the two...

Luis Fernández-Galiano   These two very large books document monumental buildings. The Complete Works of Herzog & de Meuron, by Gerhard Mack, released its fifth volume (presenting projects completed between 2002 and 2004) two years after the publication of the sixth (which I

Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded by Jacques Herzog and Pierr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Basel, for many, is pharmaceutical industry and finance; for others, museums and the art market; and for not a few, the city of Herzog & de Meuron, the gold standard of architecture, and it is good to retrace the journey that has led them to wield su

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This fifth monograph on Herzog & de Meuron can only be presented with a zoom into the small to try out a synthesis, and with a flashback to the remote to look for an origin. The small are two stools: the X-Hocker developed for a house in Switzerland

Herzog & de Meuron designed the Porta Volta chair for the Italian furniture brand Molteni&C. A special-edition Porta Volta will be featured in the main reading room at the new National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, which the Swiss firm also

It is not only their professional success, but also the wisdom of a creative undertaking they have maintained over the course of four decades, that has given Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron an indisputable spot on the summit of great architects o

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After two decades, the Swiss partners again exhibit in London, a city that saw their first international success with the opening of Tate Modern…

London Exhibition

On view from 14 July to 15 October 2023 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is an exhibition on the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron (H&dM), founded in Basel in 1978. Curated by Vicky Richardson in close collaboration with H&deM, the show is o

The New York Times   Christopher Hawthorne   The architects behind museums in San Francisco, Miami and Minneapolis, and the Powerhouse Arts Complex, in Brooklyn, are the subjects of a major exhibition, in London... The New York Times: This Time, Herzog & de Meuron Are Inside the Museum

Veritable classics of contemporary architecture, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been exceedingly successful in combining an inalienably artistic idea of architecture with an efficient response to the changing scenarios of globalization, and

Libération   Construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s ‘Triangle’ is to begin in Paris at the end of the year, after 15 of legal battles. The tower will be the tallest to go up in Paris since 1973. Building work is programmed for completion in 2026... Libération:

Kosuke Ide   Beijing National Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest, the main venue for the Beijing Olympic Games. The Tate Modern, London’s famous art gallery and one of the largest museums for modern art in the world. The Allianz Arena, Munich’s football stadium. .

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

Herzog & de Meuron, celebrating a career

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

After ten years of construction work and not a few controversies, Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie finally held its opening night, on 11 January, with a concert by the symphonic orchestra of the NDR, the Hamburg-based public radio and television

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

‘Change of Climate’ is the motto of the fourth international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad for 29 and 30 June, in Pamplona. The previous congresses focused on austerity, solidarity, and the necessary as tools with which

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,

Stanislaus von Moos Arthur Rüegg   Gotinga  2024  
Steidl    - 496 Pages 

Gerhard Mack   The Comlete Works

Various authors   London  2023  
Royal Academy of Arts   - 160 Pages 

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 

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

Philip Ursprung   Baden  2002  
Lars Müller Publishers   - 459 Pages 

Gerhard Mack   Basilea  2000  
Birkhäuser   - 269 Pages