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Architects: LRO GmbH & Co. KG Freie Architekten BDA
- Area: 9300 m²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen, Sto, Bega, Mawa Design, Sedus Stoll AG, +3
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Professionals: Autenrieth Ingenieure, Gerlinger + Merkle, Planungsgruppe Burgert
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Service Center for Sparkasse Markgräflerland in Weil am Rhein / LRO GmbH & Co. KG Freie Architekten BDA
Vitra Oudolf Garden / Piet Oudolf
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Designers: Piet Oudolf
- Area: 4000 m²
- Year: 2020
Tane Garden House / Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects
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Architects: Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects
- Area: 15 m²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: VitrA
Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
With the exhibition »Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People« (30 March to 8 September 2019), Vitra Design Museum presents the first international retrospective about the 2018 Pritzker Prize laureate Balkrishna Doshi outside of Asia.
The renowned architect and urban planner is one of the few pioneers of modern architecture in his home country and the first Indian architect to receive the prestigious award. During over 60 years of practice, Doshi has realized a wide range of projects, adopting principles of modern architecture and adapting them to local culture, traditions, resources, and nature. The exhibition will present numerous significant projects
AD Classics: Vitra Design Museum / Gehry Partners
This article was originally published on April 27, 2017. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.
Even at the Vitra Campus in Weil-am-Rhein—a collection of furniture factories, offices, showrooms, and galleries, many of which are the products of iconic architects—the Vitra Design Museum stands out as exceptional. With its sculptural form composed of interconnected curving volumes, the museum is the unmistakable work of Frank Gehry – an architect who has built a legacy for himself upon such structures. What may not be immediately apparent is the crossroads that this serene white building represents: it was in this project at the southwestern corner of Germany (close to the Swiss border) that Gehry first realized a structure in the vein of his now signature style.
AD Classics: Vitra Fire Station / Zaha Hadid
This article was originally published on April 21, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.
Although Zaha Hadid began her remarkable architectural career in the late 1970s, it would not be until the 1990s that her work would lift out her drawings and paintings to be realized in physical form. The Vitra Fire Station, designed for the factory complex of the same name in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, was the among the first of Hadid’s design projects to be built. The building’s obliquely intersecting concrete planes, which serve to shape and define the street running through the complex, represent the earliest attempt to translate Hadid’s fantastical, powerful conceptual drawings into a functional architectural space.
Elytra Filament Pavilion / ICD-ITKE University of Stuttgart
Vitra + Camper Store at Vitra Campus / Kéré Architecture
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Architects: Kéré Architecture
- Year: 2015
Architecture of Independence - African Modernism
From February 20 the Vitra Design Museum will host "Architecture of Independence - African Modernism," an exhibition curated by architect and author Manuel Herz. Featuring numerous photographic contributions by Iwan Baan, "Architecture of Independence" explores the experimental and futuristic architecture produced in 1960s Central and Sub-Saharan Africa during the region's period of newfound independence.
Diogene / Renzo Piano
Text description provided by the architects. Over the years, furniture company Vitra has made a name for itself as one of the most architecturally-enlightened companies in the world, with their renowned campus featuring buildings by Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA.
Now, Vitra has announced a collaboration with Renzo Piano that will bridge the gap between their sought-after furniture and their bespoke campus. Diogene, a self contained minimal living space with a floor area of just 2.5 x 3.0 meters, is billed as "Vitra's smallest building - but largest product".
More about the design of Diogene after the break
Factory Building on the Vitra Campus / SANAA
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Architects: SANAA
- Area: 20455 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Bollinger + Grohmann, SAPS/Sasaki & Partners, Henseleit & Partner, Waldkirch, Horstmann + Berger, +3
VitraHaus / Herzog & de Meuron
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Architects: Herzog & de Meuron