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Vaugirard Social Housing / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Vaugirard Social Housing, Christ & Gantenbein’s first completed project in Paris, is a large-scale residential development that redefines the perimeter of a plot in the city’s 15th arrondissement. Mixing urban complexity with the comfort of high-quality housing, it is a unique combination of infrastructure and city life, potentially becoming a new model for subsidized housing.

New Aare Bridge / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The new Aare Bridge in Aarau, Switzerland, designed by the planning team Christ & Gantenbein, WMM Ingenieure AG, Henauer Gugler AG, and August + Margrith Künzel Landschaftsarchitekten AG, is both a modern infrastructure construction and a part of the city. Replacing a 1949 concrete bridge, the new structure blends organically into Aarau’s distinctive cityscape and the natural environment of the Aare River while strengthening the region’s transportation network. As a comprehensive bridge and riverbank design, the project creates an appealing urban space, and with its distinctive, elegantly curved arches, becomes a new landmark.

UK House Lobby / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:00:00 +0000

UK House, a mixed-use building located at a prestigious West End address on Oxford Street, stands out as a landmark in the city center. Built in 1906, the grade II listed building was adapted in the 1970s and became an office block. Two of its original facades remain, revealing a playful composition of baroque forms and Edwardian elements. By contrast, the other facades exhibit a modern style.

Paris International Exhibition / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Paris Internationale, an art fair driven by a mindset of independence, collaboration, and partnerships, displays contemporary art at different locations each year. The 2022 edition takes place in one of Paris’ first glazed-facade buildings, which housed the former studio of the French photographer Nadar and was home of the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

Roche Multifunctional Workspace Building / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 03:00:00 +0000

Roche’s campus in Grenzach-Wyhlen was established more than a century ago as its first manufacturing base near the Swiss border. It now houses around 1450 employees working for Roche Pharma AG (Germany). The campus’ architectural heritage reveals how collaboration has evolved: from a functional industrial space dominated by the manufacture to a human-centered environment fostering interaction and teamwork within a rational and industrial framework.

Lindt Home of Chocolate / Christ & Gantenbein

Paula Pintos — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The headquarters of Lindt & Sprüngli, the Swiss chocolatier, founded in 1845, are located near Lake Zurich on the outskirts of Switzerland‘s most populous city. The firm‘s long and successful history of producing quality chocolate manifests creations from Lindt & Sprüngli as the epitome of quality chocolate. Its products are available in more than 120 countries worldwide. They are sold by 28 subsidiaries in more than 500 of its own stores. Lindt & Sprüngli‘s HQ features a factory, warehouses, an office building, and the new gateway to the campus, the Lindt Home of Chocolate, which is financed and operated by the Lindt Chocolate Competence Foundation.This new flagship building is a striking, contemporary counterweight to the eclectic assemblage of buildings.

List Customer Center / Christ & Gantenbein

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The new research and marketing building for a worldwide leader in dry processing technologies quotes archetypes from the local industrial architecture into a self-assured building, combining clever distribution of spaces and an accomplished aesthetic presence.

Kunstmuseum Basel / Christ & Gantenbein

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The Kunstmuseum Basel’s new building redefines a prominent location in the heart of the Basel. As a place for the exhibition and preservation of art as well as events, it embodies both a new departure and continuity.

Swiss National Museum / Christ & Gantenbein

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:00:00 +0000

The expansion to the National Museum Zurich, for which the opening celebration will take place in July 2016, complements the original museum building of 1898 designed by the architect Gustav Gull. The new wing is located on the side adjoining the Platzspitz Park. The old and new buildings are directly coupled to each other so as to form an architectural and urban ensemble. The historical and modern building elements successfully confront each other. The new building directly incorporates some of the context’s existing features into its architecture. The building’s layout accommodates the trees and paths of the historical park, and the characteristic roofscape of the old building sets the volumetric theme of the new structure. The expressive folds in the rooftops can be understood as a contemporary interpretation of Gull’s articulated Historicism. The new is thus inconceivable without the old, but is nonetheless unmistakably modern.

Housing and Shops / Christ & Gantenbein

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In the centre of Erlenbach, a town on the edge of Lake Zurich, a new housing building has been constructed on the premises of the Schärer Erlenbach company. The former factory, where machines for the textile industry were produced and which used to be so im- portant for the region, has also received a new front building.

Cerro del Obispo Lookout Point / Christ & Gantenbein

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Each year around two millions of people set out on their pilgrimage through the Mexican county of Jalisco, along the 117 kilometres of the Ruta del Peregrino. The route of their pilgrimage leads them from the city of Ameca, over the mountain Cerro del Obispo until the point of the Espinazo del Diablo and finally into the destination town of Talpa de Allende with the shrine of the Holy Virgin of Talpa.

VoltaMitte / Christ & Gantenbein

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The VoltaMitte housing and commercial building closes the triangular block between Voltaplatz and Lothringerplatz in the North of Basel, where the urban residential area merges into the industrial zone. The building is part of an urban refurbishment and redevelopment scheme, following the construction of the subterranean highway which connects Germany, Switzerland and France and it is situated in direct neighbourhood to the Novartis campus.

WohnWerk / Christ & Gantenbein

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Christ & Gantenbein have realised a new housing and a workshop building for Wohn- Werk, an institution for handicapped people based in Basel, a project for which the office had won the competition in 2003. The institution had invited for the competition, as a renovation of the existing buildings was not possible due to their structural deficits.

Office Building in Liestal / Christ & Gantenbein

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The striking six-storey retail and office building building occupies the triangular site between the station and the head office of Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB). The constrictions of the site meant that the building’s footprint had to be smaller than its upper storeys, resulting in a downward tapering shape, and the dark anthracite-coloured concrete conveys a sense of robustness and stability at this dynamic location.