Geneva: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Daniel Zamarbide

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Renovation

• Lead Architect

  Daniel Zamarbide

• Design Team

  Carine Pimenta, Francisco Castelo Branco, João Paixão, Vanessa Pointet, Robinson Mangematin

• Area

  70.0 m2

• Project Year

  2019

• Photographs

  Dylan Perrenoud

150 first-year EPFL architecture students are creating architecture installations and gardens around the Buvette d'Evian near Lake Geneva in France. In response to a request from the French-speaking Switzerland chapter of the Swiss Architects’ Federation (FAS), EPFL agreed to study how to better protect architectural heritage even outside of Switzerland. Students tested their designs on the Swiss side of the lake before construction, and the new designs aim to bring La Buvette back to life.

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For ten consecutive years, Vienna ranks first in the Mercer survey on cities with the best quality of life in the world. In this edition to the global ranking, eight Western European cities join the top ten, even when "trade tensions and populist undercurrents continue to dominate the global economic climate", as Mercer points out in its report.

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• Architects

  Bloomint Design

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Architects in Charge

  Caroline Savin, Manu Bauzá, Caroline Jaussaud

• Area

  3000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Margaret Stepien

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• Architects

  meier + associés architectes

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  University

• Team Project

  Philippe Meier, Ana-Inès Pepermans, Martin Jaques, Frank Herbert, Jean-Daniel Pasquettaz, Adrien Renoult, Amalia Jimenez, Adriano Reis, Julio Lopez, Diego Osorio Calvo, Cathy Martinie, Linda Serra, José Ortells Barbero, Teresa Blanco, Francisca Machado Lima, Rodrigo Lino Gaspar, Laurence Boyé, Kim Henny, Guillaume Boussemart, Paulo Duarte, Sebastien Le Dortz, Tiago Menino, Nicolas Pailler, Joel Fernandes, Patrick Flum, Joao-Pedro Vaz, Antonio Martin Prieto, Marta Alpuim, Angelos Komninos

• Area

  17400.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Yves André

Herzog & de Meuron, with local firm Favre & Guth, has been selected as the winners of an international competition for the design of a new global headquarters for private banking company Lombard Odier to be located in Bellevue, Switzerland on Lake Geneva.

Responding to the competition theme of ‘One Roof,’ the design consists of a single building in which all sides are given equal prominence, with no obvious front or back. Herzog & de Meuron’s winning proposal achieves this through its glassy facade and sweeping flooplates supported by slender columns.

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) has selected Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Rüssli Architekten as the winners of an international competition for the design of their new Geneva Operational Center, beating out proposals from Pool Architekten & Mak Architecture, Sauerbruch Hutton, Emilio Tuñon Arquitectos & Ruckstuhl Architekten, Blue Architects, and Consortium Sou Foujimoto with The New Talent Workshop.

Clad in an innovative colored photovoltaic glass facade system, the energy-efficient building will provide flexible work and social spaces for more than 250 employees.

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Researchers at the MIT Senseable City Lab have launched a new platform using Google Street View data to measure and compare the green canopies of major cities across the world. Treepedia, created in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, is an interactive website which allows users to view the location and size of their city’s trees, submit information to help tag them, and advocate for more trees in their area. In the development of Treepedia, the Senseable City Lab recognizes the role of green canopies in urban life, and asks how citizens can be more integral to the process of greening their neighborhoods.

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• Architects

  Studio Banana

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Partner In Charge

  Key Kawamura

• Support Partner

  Ali Ganjavian

• Project Manager

  Olivier Terny

• Area

  560.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

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• Architects

  GMAA

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Landscape Architecture

• Area

  120.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  A.Korour

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• Architects

  Nomos

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Coffee Shop

• Architect in Charge

  Nomos

• Area

  60.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Imagen Subliminal

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• Architects

  group8

• Location

  Geneva, Switzerland

• Category

  Institutional buildings

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Régis Golay

Brut Deluxe has created a colorful light installation, made up of 48 chandelier-like pieces that dangle above Geneva’s Rue du Mont Blanc for the 2015 Geneva LUX light festival. The project continues on Brut Deluxe’s extensive work with ephemeral installations and their study of spatial qualities through light.

Miguel de Guzmán and Rocío Romero, from the photography studio Imagen Subliminal, have shared with us their images and video of the installation.

Learn more and view more images after the break.

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