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Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum / Boltshauser Architekten

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The brickworks, that is run today by the Brickworks Museum, is the only intact surviving handmade brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland. The listed ensemble consists of a timber brick-drying shed, a kiln, that may no longer be operated, the biotope of the historical clay pit, a residential building with gardens, and a museum building that replaces a burned-down barn. In 2017 students of the guest professorship at the TU Munich worked on the task of designing a new kiln tower on the site. The prestressed earth-and-timber structure is based directly on the mock-up carried out at the Sitterwerk and is the world's first prestressed earth building.

GLC Building ETH Zürich / Boltshauser Architekten

Paula Pintos — Wed, 10 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The GLC building of ETH Zurich serves teaching and research at the interface between health sciences and technology. It is part of the dense conglomeration of buildings that make up Zurich’s university quarter and fits into an ensemble originating in the Semper Polytechnic and university building from the middle of the 19^th century and which has evolved continuously to this day. As part of the 2012/2020 Real Property Strategy, the ETH decided to build a new center for the departments of health sciences and technology, information technology, and electrical engineering at the site of the hydraulic engineering, hydrology and glaciology research institute (VAW), holding a competition in 2010/2011 for this building which is now referred to by the abbreviation GLC.

Office and Data Center Waterworks Zug WWZ / Boltshauser Architekten

Paula Pintos — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Commercial and industrial buildings are characteristic of the area for which this project ‒ based on design plans for the «Äussere Lorzenallmend» district ‒ was developed. Two construction phases are planned: During the first construction phase, an idiosyncratic, comb-like, three-story building volume is formulated and subsequently enhanced with a high point on Chollerstrasse. A spacious access ramp leading to a plateau opens up the new building. The two building wings enclose the entrance space.

Krämeracker Primary School / Boltshauser Architekten

Paula Pintos — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:00:00 +0000

The existing ensemble of the Krämeracker secondary school was expanded to include two new buildings and additional outdoor spaces. The elongated school building is situated parallel to the secondary school building and has the pupils enter via the head building. The new gymnasium is located opposite the existing gymnasiums so that the four building volumes are arranged in a chessboard-like pattern shaping the different outdoor spaces. The new buildings are kept low. Fine vertical and horizontal volume shifts establish spatial relationships with the neighborhood.