Basel: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Burckhardt+Partner AG

• Location

  Grosspeterstrasse 29 und 44, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Buildings

• Lead Architects

  Andreas Kaufmann

• Area

  29170.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Adriano Biondo

Herzog & de Meuron has been selected as the winners of a competition to design the new master plan of the Nordspitze community in the northermost part Basel’s Dreispitz district. Organized around two large public green spaces, the mixed-use community will feature three residential skyscrapers that will become the three tallest residential buildings in the city.

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Emerging international architecture office KOSMOS has unveiled 6 projects exploring potential collective spaces in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Unveiled during Art Basel, the speculative projects were featured in the Forum Basel exhibition curated alongside Museum Director Andreas Ruby and Stéphanie Savio, and emerging Chilean practice Plan Común. Held at the Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM), the architecture exhibition was held “in reaction to the increasing commodification of urban space today” and dedicated itself to investigating new possibilities for public space in Basel. Check out the projects, with descriptions from KOSMOS, below.

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• Architects

  Sauter von Moos

• Location

  Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Renovation

• Lead Architects

  Charlotte von Moos, Florian Sauter

• Area

  280.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Rolf Frei, Eiko Grimberg

Atelier Peter Zumthor has revealed conceptual designs for their CHF 100 million ($100 million USD) addition of the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen, Switzerland, just outside of the city of Basel. Located on land formerly off-limits to the public, the extension will add an array of new event and gallery spaces to the existing museum, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and opened in 1997.

Drawing from the “village-like character” of Riehen, the addition will consist of three, relatively small new buildings that blend harmoniously into the museum’s nature-filled setting: a stoic building for administration and service, a glass pavilion for events, and a grand House for Art. Together, their arrangement will help to create a subtle link between the new and old areas of the site.

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• Architects

  Focketyn Del Rio Studio

• Location

  Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Interiors Architecture

• Architect in Charge

  Miquel del Río & Hans Focketyn

• Area

  500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Adrià Goula

In another photoset from his latest Switzerland trip, photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu takes us inside Christ & Gantenbein’s recently-opened addition to the Kunstmuseum Basel. The design, winner in an international competition in 2009, sought to create a “contemporary brother” to the original museum, opening up to the street through its angled form. The monochromatic brick facade also responds to its context and historic neighbor, while hiding a wraparound LED screen beneath to create a frieze with a technological twist.

Check out the full series of shots, after the break.

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The office of Peter Zumthor has been selected to design an expansion to the Beyeler Foundation, located just outside Zumthor’s childhood home of Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss architect was chosen from a prestigious shortlist of 11 firms to add to the existing museum building, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and completed in 1997.

“The sky above Basel, the city and its surroundings–those are the landscapes of my youth,” said Zumthor. “It is heart-warming to be able to design a major building here.”

Earlier this summer, the Vitra Schaudepot on the Vitra Campus was officially opened. The latest in a string of structures designed by emerging and well-known architects, this gallery space is the second building by Swiss-practice Herzog & de Meuron. Conceived as "a visible storage facility" presenting a cross-section of the Vitra Design Museum's extensive collection of furniture and lighting, over 400 objects will provide "a comprehensive introduction to the history of furniture design." Featuring a café, shop and a new entrance for visitors to the museum, the building is also able to host temporary exhibitions. Photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has turned his lens to this latest addition in Weil am Rhein.

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• Architects

  Daluz Gonzalez Architekten

• Location

  Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Houses

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Philippe Wiget Photography, Alexandra Kreja

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• Architects

  Christ & Gantenbein

• Location

  Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Museum

• Area

  8079.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Stefano Graziani, Walter Mair

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• Architects

  Merki Schmid Architects

• Location

  Basel, Switzerland

• Category

  Houses

• Area

  350.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Alicja Dobrucka