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
The 20-meter-high building is subdivided into horizontal layers that respond to the stacked spatial program. Functionally, the building is structured in three main areas: the stacked ice rinks, the high diving and competition pools, and the leisure a
The multi-layered, transparent facade provides a view into the green inner courtyard and the atrium, which are visible from the main entrance. The naturally ventilated atrium serves as a distribution zone for the modular units...
Though a similar site strategy is adopted for the whole complex, each family of buildings is distinctive: the houses grouped around the central courtyards are wood buildings, while the ones on the east are developed with a load-bearing masonry of ado
The left bank of Lake Zurich is characterized by a series of individual spatial compartments. The location of the water police at Mythenquai lies precisely on the perimeter of two such compartments: the promontory occupied by the Zurich Rowing Club a
Elevated above the ground, the Center for Hearing and Language is accessed by means of a slender path that winds towards the ground level. The new school, surrounded by grand existing trees, replaces two massive provisional buildings. The L-shaped vo
The Hofacker school grounds, in the Hirslanden district of Zurich, consist of the school building with a gymnasium by Friedrich Wehrli, built in 1898, and a second gymnasium wing from 1938, by city architect Hermann Herter. These two existing school
Along the Gold Coast of Lake Zurich, individual localities have lost a clear sense of identity amongst the continuity of the suburban landscape. Generic architecture determines the immediate context of any remaining open spaces, which create a welcom
Europaallee is by far the largest real estate development in the heart of Zurich and lies just beyond the main train station. The site is the final of eight new constructions and is directly adjacent to the multicultural – and rather infamous – distr
The brief called for two houses in one. Each house required independent access, yet the overall design had to enable inhabiting both houses as one residence. The complex, formed by four clean-cut boxes of monolithic white concrete resting on top of e
To update the hospital complex to modern medical practice, the buildings will be attached to the existing by gardens, courtyards, and terraces. The modular floor plans in the two volumes of the first phase make future adjustments possible...
The Raumfachwerk `proposal, where timber plays a central role, has won the bid to renovate Dock A and adjacent buildings at Zurich’s airport. The scheme drawn up by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), HOK, 10:8, and Buro Happold carried the day over those sub
With the objective of fostering contact between student associations and business initiatives at ETH Zurich, the new building contains several multipurpose halls, flexible rooms, workshops, and spaces for inspiration, exchange, and creativity...
The project replaces an old building from the 1980s with another starting from a wood structure that is organized around a network of landscaped terraces. The facade composition contributes and adapts to its streetscape and surroundings...
The project to transform these old barracks in Zurich into two new schools offers an opportunity to give the monument, its open spaces, and its rooms a new use, and to see this major building in a different way: as if it were a house within a garden.
Renovating the north and west buildings offers the opportunity to bring out the strengths of the place, improve the connection among spaces, transform the new children’s house, and provide an affordable and welcoming space for the families who live t
The Kunsthaus is a 1910 building located at Heimplatz, in the center of Zürich. After years of planning and construction, its extension opened to the public in October 2021. Connected to the original building by an underground passageway, it is organ
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
The Kunsthaus Zürich, built in 1910 by Karl Moser (1860-1936), is situated on Heimplatz, in the city center. The existing museum is to be expanded with a building designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The new extension will go up on the o
Located along the river Limmat, on the spot occupied by old building, destroyed by fire in 2012, the Tanzhaus Zürich stands as an important cultural institution, a school of dance that has become the symbolic center of the neighborhood. The project a
The planar building – a slender volume 75 meters long, 15 meters wide, and with 12 levels – can be interpreted as a solitary gesture. The orthogonal form of the plane dialogs with typologies present in the surrounding urban fabric, which is character
The new e-Science laboratory at ETH Zurich had to tackle two fundamental challenges: characterizing the place and giving architectural form to the future of scientific work. The innovative program – research using computational tools and big data – r
With the idea of connecting the city to the lake, the project transforms the coastal area of the old port, currently closed to the public, into a permeable enclave for nautical activities and social gathering, with cultural programs and restaurants..
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
Students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Digital Fabrication and Architecture program at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich have built ‘Concrete Choreoraphy,’ an installation of columns made of special concrete with the assistanc
Tributes to artists tend to be post mortem. A case in point is Le Corbusier and his pavilion in Zurich, designed as a Maison de l’Homme in which to display the collection of the gallerist Heidi Weber, but which after opening in 1967, two years after
Le Corbusier, pavilion in Zurich.
Una pila de cajas de vidrio de diferentes alturas, rodeadas de cerchas trianguladas de acero, define la ampliación proyectada por el arquitecto suizo Christian Kerez para un complejo escolar en Leutschenbach, a las afueras de Zúrich. El proyecto trat
Entre los arquitectos que optaron por seguir las pautas del Movimiento Moderno en la Suiza de la posguerra destaca significativamente Jean Tschumi (1902-1962). Las salas de exposición de la ETH de Zúrich y la EPFL de Lausana se han unido para rendirl
Jean-Marc Lamunière, una figura que ha marcado el paisaje arquitectónico suizo desde la década de los años cincuenta hasta la actualidad, expone una extensa retrospectiva en la ETH de Zúrich, tras su paso por el Archizoom, la sala de exposiciones de
Architecture is one of the few professions that still is – in the best artisan tradition – passed on from parents to their children. After finishing his studies in Zürich’s ETH, Valerio Olgiati (1958) of Chur had immediate professional experience wor
Without relinquishing the aspects that have brought international recognition to fellow compatriots of previous generations, the Swiss Pascale Guignard (1969) and Stefan Saner (1965) remain faithful to the tradition of their alma mater, Zürich’s arch
