Davide Macullo   Switzerland   The canton of Graubünden is one of the most extraordinary parts of Switzerland, not only because of its complex cultural tradition – including three official languages – but also because of a landscape of sublime contrast between soaring mountains an

David Chipperfield   Switzerland   The Kunsthaus is a 1910 building located at Heimplatz, in the center of Zürich. After twelve years of planning and construction, its extension is complete and will open to the public in October 2021. Connected to the original building by an undergrou

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 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   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

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   More elaborated plans for the latest revamp of the Roche campus in Basel (Switzerland) have been unveiled. With the transfer to the research center now under construction in the north zone, the pharmaceutical company’s offices and laboratories in the

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

Sou Fujimoto   Switzerland   The concept of the New Learning Center of St. Gallen University is based on the idea of an elementary grid that functions as a base where the different parts of the program are arranged openly and flexibly... [+]

Foster + Partners   Switzerland   InnHub La Punt is a new centre for innovation in the heart of the Engadin valley that seeks to bring new visitors together with the local community to increase prosperity, create new jobs, and revitalize local crafts and produce. It is based on the i

Aires Mateus   Switzerland   Promoted by the Canton of Vaud, the City of Lausanne, and the CFF (Swiss Federal Railways), the new Pôle Museal is an urban regeneration plan, of scope unprecedented in Switzerland, set out to transform the city into a dynamic center of cultural inno

BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group   Switzerland   The Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is located within the famous luxury watch manufacturer’s historical complex of workshops and factories. It reflects the innovative spirit of the firm – which has successfully maintained its autonomy as a family enter

In the same Canton of Ticino where he was born and to which he was ever bound died a master of Swiss architecture, Luigi Snozzi, on 29 December, succumbing like so many others to Covid-19. Alongside his friend and occasional partner Livio Vacchini, a

After twelve years of planning and building, the office of David Chipperfield has completed the new Kunsthaus Zurich extension, the fourth in the history of the neo-Greek building raised in 1910 by Karl Moser, who would be the first CIAM president. U

Norman Foster   Speaking before a gathering of mayors from 41 cities, Norman Foster shared his optimistic view of the pandemic as an uplifting opportunity.

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.

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

One of the recurring motifs in the already very extensive oeuvre of the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is the spiral. If for architects in past times the spiral was an expression of movement, for Ingels it is also something that has the capacity to g

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

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

Though trained at ETH Zurich during the years of Aldo Rossi’s chair, Valerio Olgiati (Cuera, 1958) has produced an oeuvre to a large extent removed from themes like type and context. Powerful in their schematism, monolithic in their materiality, exq

Le Corbusier, pavilion in Zurich.

Nicola Navone   Mendrisio  2010  
Silvana Editoriale   - 181 Pages 

Mercedes Daguerre   Milan  2010  
Mondadori Electa   - 208 Pages 

Zurich  2010  
Niggli   - 120 Pages 

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

Steven Spier Martin Tschanz   Nueva arquitectura suiza