Affoltern Housing Development / EM2N
Architects: EM2N
Location: Wehntalerstrasse, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: EM2N
Area: 29967.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Roger Frei
Housing Im Forster / EM2N
Architects: EM2N
Location: Zürichbergstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland
Architect In Charge: EM2N
Area: 5,925 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Roger Frei
Leutschenbach School / Christian Kerez
Architects: Christian Kerez
Location: Zurich, Switzerland.
Architect In Charge: Christian Scheidegger, Andrea Casiraghi, Lucas Camponovo
Structural Engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting, Zug, Joseph Schwartz with dsp, Zurich, Walter Kaufmann, Mario Monotti
Construction Management: BGS, Rapperswil
Area: 11500.0 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Christian Kerez
Europaallee Zurich / Max Dudler Architekt
Architects: Max Dudler Architekt
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Managers: Christian Moeller, Wiebke Ahues, Maike Schrader, Claudio Pasquini, Christof Berkenhoff, Nina Behjati
Year: 2009
Photographs: Stefan Müller
Housing Neufrankengasse / EM2N
Architects: EM2N
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Project Leader: Gerry Schwyter, David Duca, Raul Mera
Project Team: Fabian Hörmann, Florian Kaiser, Martin Schriener, Elena Schwarz, Caroline Vogel
Partners: Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli
Area: 5,800 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Simon Menges
AD Classics: Centre Le Corbusier (Heidi Weber Museum) / Le Corbusier
Iconic for its floating steel roof and brightly colored panels, the Centre Le Corbusier is the last building Le Corbusier designed before his death in 1965. Completed in 1967, the building stands as a testament to Corbusier’s renaissance genius as an architect, painter, and sculptor. It does so both intentionally, as it is an exhibition space for his life’s work, and naturally, as it is a building masterfully designed. Interestingly, the building diverges in some ways from the style responsible for his renown – concrete, stone, uniform repetition, etc. It celebrates the use of steel, with which he explored prefabrication and assembly, and a freedom through modularity, in which the plan is completely open but infinitely adaptable.
The New Toni-Areal in Zürich West
The Toni-Areal is a crucial part of the plan to breathe new life into Zürich West. The building was formerly a milk processing facility, and the new design by architecture firm EM2N features spaces for cultural events, as well as the Zürich University of the Arts and two departments of the Zürich University of Applied Sciences.
The Toni-Areal is one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken in Zürich and will be the largest construction site in Switzerland during its realization phase. The total usable floor space is 108,500 m2, of which the colleges comprise 84,500 m2. The remaining 23,500 m2 are dedicated to housing, cultural events, restaurants, and small retail shops, as well as parking and technology. The construction price—including basic upgrades and tenant upgrades—amounts to about 350 million Swiss francs.
Sponsored by Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.
House for 6 Families / L3P Architects
Architects: L3P Architects
Location: Regensberg, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Design Team: Frank Schaefer Arch.ETH, Boris Egli Arch.FH, Martin Reusser Arch.FH
Civil Engineering: Bona + Fischer AG, Winterthur
Builder: E. Schäfer Bau AG, Dielsdorf
Area: 960 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Vito Stallone
Dynamo Metal Workshop / phalt Architekten
Architects: phalt Architekten
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Project Team: Cornelia Mattiello, Frank Schneider, Mike Mattiello
Year: 2008
Photographs: Dominique Wehrli
Skullcandy Office / Arthur de Chatelperron + Hugo Hélène
Architects: Arthur de Chatelperron + Hugo Hélène
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Client: Skullcandy International GMBH
Budget: € 220,000
Area: 440 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Arthur de Chatelperron + Hugo Hélène
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
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
Children’s Hospital Zürich / Herzog & de Meuron
Due to space limitations and increasingly aging infrastructure, Kinderspital Zürich called for a two-phase competition to design a new children’s hospital in the Lengg district of Zürich, Switzerland. At the recommendation of the jury, the foundation board of Kinderspital Zürich announced Herzog & de Meuron as the competition winner in May 2012. Their winning proposal includes a three-storey, wooden Children’s Hospital that provides a flexible, child-friendly environment. Furthermore, Herzog & de Meuron uses simple geometry to connect the contrasting typologies of the Children’s Hospital with the freestanding, six-story Centre for Teaching and Research that will also be located on the new medical campus.
Kinderspital Zürich expects to commission the new building in 2018. Continue after the break for the architects’ description.
Pavilion / EmTech (AA) + ETH
Out of a collaboration between the Emergent Technologies and Design program (EmTech) of the Architectural Association (AA), London, and the Chair of Structural Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, a temporary light timber construction has been designed that functions as sun shading for parts of the grand stairs in front of the architecture department of the ETH. Based on bending behavior under the self-weight of over-sized sheets of plywood of up to 11 x 2.5 m, the design activates the material properties as the defining element in the transfer of forces. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Sport Center ETH Honggerberg / Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Completion: 2010
Area: 10,374 sqm
Photographs: Bruno Klomfar
“From Suburb to City” International Summer Academy 2012
Between 22 July – 05 August 2012, the architects group Krokodil (EM2N, pool, Roger Boltshauser, Frank Zierau, Schweingruber Zulauf) and the Department of Architecture of the ETH Zurich (D-ARCH) will jointly run the International Summer Academy 2012 in Zurich with the title “From Suburb to City”.
Well-known architects from Switzerland and other countries will examine the themes of agglomeration/city/landscape using the example of the Zurich metropolitan area. The two-week-long International Summer Academy Zurich is directed at students and those embarking upon their professional careers in the areas of architecture/urban planning and landscape architecture from Switzerland and abroad. Each studio decides upon its own particular task in conducting a critical examination of the urban design proposal “Glatt – the City” and spotlights relevant processes in the development of a city. For more information, please visit here.
Fünf Häuser / TIP
Architects: TIP
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Walter Mair, Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Lukas Lenherr
ICE (Innovation Community Emmen) / RD2B Limited
Inspired by the Swiss glaciers and taking advantage of their history, the architectural firm rd2b limited created Emmen Innovation Community, an innovation center located in the region of Emmen, in Zurich, located in the heart of Switzerland. Roads, railways, public transportation and an airport connect the area to Europe. Bluish in color, a solid line through organic and deployments to the territory, the aesthetics of the design reflects the elegance, harmonizing and transcendence of the glaciers. More images and architects’ description after the break.
In Progress: Allianz Headquarters / Wiel Arets Architects
The Allianz Headquarters is an office complex linked and interlocked by a series of bridges and voids that aims to progress the 21st century work environment by becoming a second home to employees.
Architect: Wiel Arets Architects
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Photographs: Jan Bitter
