National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein / Hansjoerg Goeritz Architekturstudio

Oct 2011

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Architects: Hansjoerg Goeritz Architekturstudio
Location: Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Collaborators: Anne-Claire von Braunmühl, Stefan Höpfinger, Mario Bearth, Marc Berliat, Fritz Eggenberger
Local Architects: FrickArchitekten AG
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Jürg Zürcher
Products used in this project: FSB, Door & windows hardware.

Following the success of the Hansjörg Göritz Architekturstudio in an international European competition of the year 2000, seven years of planning and implementation are now completed. Today the built exterior and interior spaces manifest not only his interpretation of democratic separation of powers within the Alamannic cultural region of the Alps’ Rhine River valley. They also stand for a conscious understanding of an architecture of urban contiguity, whereby the original masterplan of Luigi Snozzi has been newly reinterpreted.

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At the same time the pure and meticulous materialization of the new context rejects generic easy conventions, and strive for an architecture of space and timelessness. It is this very elementary and sustainably durable quality that makes use of non-renewable resources according to rigorous Minergy-Standards. In the plenum the sublime art of Sabine Laidig creates a synthesis with this space creation of simplicity.

PRODUCTS IN THIS PROJECT

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Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein / Hansjoerg Goeritz Architekturstudio" 03 Oct 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/62491>

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rental_watanabe 2.0 says:

【archi info】 National Parliament Principality of… http://dlvr.it/1NbcR #Institutional_Architecture (archdaily) #rental_archiinfo

# June 2, 2010 at 12:50

Nicolás Saieh says:

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# June 2, 2010 at 14:03

l says:

This is outstanding, even the drawings are great.

# June 2, 2010 at 14:31

Teo says:

O U T S T A N D I N G indeed

# June 2, 2010 at 14:50

Commentator says:

Thumbs up for showing the details!

# June 2, 2010 at 14:48

fokt says:

Wow.

# June 2, 2010 at 15:39

Ricardo says:

WOWOW

# June 2, 2010 at 16:45

Alex says:

Wow, what an unmitigated disaster. Beige brick on everything like poor 70′s modernism! It looks like the awful kind of low-budget government buildings and schools and churches we have scores of in South Texas. Yikes.

# June 2, 2010 at 17:42

H. Roark says:

Well if thats crap architecture in south Texas I’m moving to Texas.

# June 3, 2010 at 05:02

R Goldschmidt says:

By the way, 70′s modernist? Come on Dude. Learn some history my friend. Looks more like Venturi, then Corbusier modernism.

# June 28, 2010 at 02:51

Architecture News says:

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# June 2, 2010 at 19:45

Engenharia on-line says:

National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein / Hansjoerg Goeritz Architektur http://bit.ly/9epIkz @BreakingArch:

# June 2, 2010 at 19:58

The Big Black & White Zebra says:

One of the very best buildings on the site…
When you think of what the Scottish Parliament’s says about its Government – excess and gaseous verbosity expressed by Miralles’ architecture, the people from this tiny principality have created a project of unparalleled strength from the most mundane of building materials.
Now I do not profess to be knowledgeable in the principalities style of traditional architecture, but in the dark recesses of my mind I have some recognition of the steeply pitched roofs and strips of small horizontal windows. This is tradition continued and translated in a most imaginative form.
That this building lives equally with the grandeur of the original carved stone buildings says much for its strength of design…
A great acheivement

# June 2, 2010 at 20:27

Graham Cowen says:

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# June 2, 2010 at 21:14

leporello says:

キリコの世界みたいだ、面白そう。
http://www.archdaily.com/62491/national-parliament-principality-of-liechtenstein-hansjoerg-goeritz-architekturstudio/

# June 3, 2010 at 00:01

luis miguel says:

brutal!!!!!!!!!

# June 3, 2010 at 02:49

meta_monkey says:

それで思い出しました。現在パラッツォ・デッレ・エスポジツィオーネ（ローマ）でデ・キリコ展が開催中です。７月１１日まで。 http://bit.ly/a0wOQo RT: @kthyk: キリコの世界みたいだ、面白そう。 http://bit.ly/bMft3h

# June 3, 2010 at 03:17

Mies van der Rohe says:

National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein / Hansjoerg Goeritz Architekturstudio http://bit.ly/dcPufu European Architecture <3

# June 3, 2010 at 07:45

FG says:

Seems a hokey pastiche of 1950′s, early 60′s contextualism/empiricism with Arne Jacobsen detailing.

# June 3, 2010 at 09:20

æon says:

if those are really bricks, they give an engineering work which is nice to appreciate, and even more with ornamentation lack spaces and lines so clean. The size of the “triangle” with an upper acute angle and no windows, makes a difference in the place

# June 3, 2010 at 10:14

three zed says:

Yes, those are really bricks, Weinerberger brick company published this project some time ago. They have a prize for brick buildings, and this is the 2010 winer.
http://www.wienerberger.com/App/XMLExports/BrickAward/index.html

# June 5, 2010 at 06:08

oltmann says:

WOWOWO!!!

# June 3, 2010 at 19:02

Todd says:

Yes, I concur, timeless and outstanding!

# June 4, 2010 at 12:31

dimis says:

I visited the place six months ago. This project is really great!

# June 7, 2010 at 05:51

op says:

i visited this place a year ago and it was great experience. very nice atmosphere, not brutal for shure, elegant details, and no fake stuff. building, publick space and even parking… …everything elegant and very well designed

# June 7, 2010 at 07:52

sullka says:

This is amazing!

The attention to detais is incredible, even the retaining wall is thoroughly designed.

Top notch work.

# June 8, 2010 at 12:11

Magnus Karlsson says:

National Parliament Principality of Liechtenstein — http://bit.ly/anN9KY #architecture

# June 29, 2010 at 07:40

Seb says:

wow… great design and the drawings are amazing… such a delicate project

# October 3, 2011 at 16:05

Oren says:

I had the opportunity to see the original hand drawings for this project and all the trash sketches that led to the final design in a show last year. The head architect behind this design is currently a visiting professor at the University of Tennessee. He is absolutely amazing to talk to about architecture. If I am not mistaken, he told me that his father worked with bricks, hence the amazing attention to detail.

# October 4, 2011 at 12:11

JU says:

Seems from the images, drawings and description to be an extraordinary project, rare in its clarity and restraint. I am rather curious though that a lot of the brickwork seems to be cladding rather than load bearing. The brickwork on the ceiling in the main debating chamber for example is brick-snap. Thoughts?

# October 11, 2011 at 09:21

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