CEI 3 / bauzeit architekten
Architects: bauzeit architekten
Location: Cheseaux-Noréaz, Switzerland
Architects: Yves Baumann, Peter Bergmann, Roberto Pascual
Year: 2011
Area: 7,580 sqm
Civil Engineer: SD Ingénierie Neuchâtel SA
Electrical Engineer: Scherler ing.-conseils SA
Project And Work Coordination: Roberto Pascual and Matteo Romano
Work Coordination And Site Supervision: Patrick Burkhalter
Photographs: Yves André
‘Under One Roof’ Experimental Pavilion Competition Winning Proposal / Kengo Kuma & Associates + Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Kengo Kuma & Associates, together with Holzer Kobler Architekturen, won the architectural design competition launched in 2012 to develop Cosandey Square at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Their project, “Under One Roof,” will unite an experimental Art & Sciences space and a demonstration pavilion under a single, long stone roof at the Montreux Jazz Lab. To connect science and culture at EPFL, the university’s campus will boast a novel “backbone” that stretches the length of Cosandey Square. More images and architects’ description after the break.
New Theater Equilibre / Dürig AG
Architects: Dürig AG
Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Dürig AG
2Verandas / Gus Wüstemann
Architects: Gus Wüstemann
Location: Elerenbach, Zürich, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Gus Wüstemann
Design Team: Jan kubasiewicz, Marta B. Goni
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 1,100 sqm
Photographs: Bruno Helbling
Atelier Gados: Stitching Spaces
Rio de Janeiro-based writer Robert Landon has shared with us his experience exploring the work/live space of Atelier Gados, designed by female-led powerhouse of Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten.
Thrusting out of a green hillside in an upscale suburb of Basel, Switzerland, Atelier Gados seems deliberately to announce its difference from its staid neighbors – as it should. For Atelier Gados — the work of the young Basel-based Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten — is not just another conventional family residence, but the workshop of an avant-garde Basel clothing designer. In a little bourgeois valley otherwise divided into atomistic, private worlds, Atelier Gados is a place of commerce, a site of creation, an unlikely threshold where public and private are made to meet.
Continue after the break for more.
Alt 1374 – Nax / Lx1 Architecture
Architects: Lx1 Architecture
Location: Nax, Valais, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: David Vessaz
Design Team: Miriam Bleikolm, Camille Bagnoud
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Luca da Campo / Strates
Lignum Pavilion / Frei + Saarinen Architekten
Designed by Frei+ Saarinen Architekten, the aim of the Lignum Pavilion is to inform the public about the possibilities of wood applications in the construction field. Conceived as a training and information center, the project embodies the expressive potential of wood in very modern key. The fully digitalized production process made it possible to optimize both the quantity of material used and the assembly system, resulting in a considerable reduction of costs and making the most of the strength characteristics of wood. More images and architects’ description after the break.
St. Josef Parish Centre / Frei + Saarinen Architekten
Architects: Frei + Saarinen Architekten
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Design Team: Barbara Frei, Martin Saarinen; Nicolaj Bechtel, Stefan Wülser, Corina Trunz, David Winzeler, Bastien Turpin
Client: Roman-Catholic Church Zurich
Build Area: 1,200 m2 Usable Area
Finishing Material: Floor / Wall / Ceiling
Floor: Brushed, Coloured and Sealed Parquet (Oak)
Completion: 2010
Photographs: Hannes Henz & Frei + Saarinen Architekten
Sport and leisure centre Promulins / Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Architects: Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Location: Samedan, Switzerland
Design Team: Sandra Kaupp, Gunilla Klemp, Lena-Maria Philipp
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 1,270 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Commercial Building Islas / Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Architects: Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Location: Samedan, Switzerland
Project Year: 2012
Project Area: 1,540 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architekten
Venice Biennale 2012: Switzerland Pavilion
After being nominated to represent Switzerland at the 2012 architecture biennale in Venice, architect and university professor Miroslav Šik decided to join forces with two other swiss firms -Knapkiewicz + Fickert from Zurich and Miller & Maranta from Basel- with whom he has been working together for many years. They have created what they call “an ensemble and atmosphere approach to urban architecture”, and decided to illustrate these concepts by putting together images of their own buildings and projects to create a collage-style exhibition.
See more pictures and read the architect’s description of the pavilion after the break:
House D / HHF Architects
Architects: HHF Architects
Location: Nuglar, Switzerland
Design Team: Markus Leixner, Anna Smorodinsky, Mio Tsuneyama
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Tom Bisig
Private House / Gramazio & Kohler
Architects: Gramazio & Kohler
Location: Uster, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Raffael Gaus
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Roman Keller
Winery Gantenbein / Gramazio & Kohler + Bearth & Deplazes Architekten
Architects: Gramazio & Kohler, Bearth & Deplazes Architekten
Location: Fläsch, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Tobias Bonwetsch
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Ralph Feiner, Courtesy of Gramazio & Kohler
Public Toilets / Gramazio & Kohler
Architects: Gramazio & Kohler
Location: Uster, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: Sarah Schneider
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Gramazio & Kohler
Kirchplatz Office + Residence / Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Architects: Oppenheim Architecture + Design
Location: Muttenz, Switzerland
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Borje Müller
Housing Development / kit Architects
Designed by kit Architects, in collaboration with schibliholenstein architekten, the winning proposal for a 33 apartment housing development in Nuerensdorf, Zurich, Switerland consists of six buildings, which occupy the land equally. The loose alternating arrangement allows multiple connections to the open countryside in the north and to the garden framed single and multi-family dwellings in the immediate neighborhood. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Feldbalz House / Gus Wüstemann
Architects: Gus Wüstemann
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Team: Marta B. Goñi, Rodrigo Iturrieta
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 276.0 sqm
Photographs: Bruno Helbling
VoltaMitte / Christ & Gantenbein
Architects: Christ & Gantenbein
Location: Basle, Switzerland
Design Team: Mona Farag, Marion Clauss, Stefan Heiniger, Laura Schneider, Mathias Sehn, David Vaner
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
WohnWerk / Christ & Gantenbein
Architects: Christ & Gantenbein
Location: Basle, Switzerland
Design Team: Julia Tobler, Tabea Lachenmann, Berend Frenzel, Nicole Ritschard, Marcus Kopper, Anette Schick
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Roman Keller
Flashback: Signal Box / Herzog & de Meuron
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Project Year: 1994
Photographs: Nelson Garrido
