Lausanne: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  3XN Architects, Itten+Brechbühl

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Institutional buildings

• Design Architects

  3XN Architects

• Local Architects

  Itten + Brechbühl

• Area

  135000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2019

• Photographs

  International Olympic Committee (IOC) / MØRK, Adam

During the worldwide celebration of Olympic Day, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) inaugurated its new headquarters, Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by Danish architecture firm 3XN, the project aims to bring together the IOC staff – 500 employees currently spread across Lausanne in four locations - under one roof at a single site. The new headquarters was made to further the mission of international cooperation, transparency and sustainability.

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• Architects

  Behnisch Architekten

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Research

• Lead Architects

  Connie Wust (Project Leader), Natasa Bogojevic, Ioana Fagarasan, Michael Innerarity, Heinrich Lipp, François Servera, Saori Yamane

• Area

  22500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  David Matthiessen

3XN Architects has revealed new renderings and photographs of the in-progress headquarters for the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. Selected as the winner of an international competition in 2014, the design features sinuously curving forms evocative of the “movement of an Olympic athlete” to embody the three core principles of movement, flexibility and sustainability.

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• Architects

  TRIBU Architecture

• Location

  Chemin de Bochardon 11, 1012 Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Housing

• Area

  1372.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Michel Bonvin

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• Architects

  CCHE

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Institutional buildings

• Area

  11200.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Thomas Jantscher

Behnisch Architekten has announced the groundbreaking of the AGORA—Cancer Research Center located in Lausanne, Switzerland within sight of Lake Geneva. As the new home of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), the Center will bring together 400 researchers, scientists, doctors, and clinicians under the goal of enhanced communication.

The new AGORA building will connect to an existing building on one side, with minimal disruptions to existing programming. “Visual relationships both on the site and to the landscape beyond require a carefully defined building mass and the new building responds sensitively to these site conditions while sculpturally standing out from its heterogeneous surroundings.”

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• Architects

  CCHE

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Residential

• Architect in Charge

  CCHE Lausanne SA

• Area

  11000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Thomas Jantscher

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• Architects

  ALICE Studio Architects

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Pavillion

• Area

  121.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Dylan Perrenoud, ALICE EPFL, Alessandra Ortelli, Aloys Mutzenberg

• Architects

  meier + associés architectes

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Extension

• Area

  3548.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Yves André

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• Architects

  meier + associés architectes

• Location

  Lausanne, Switzerland

• Category

  Extension

• Area

  2710.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Yves André

A jury led by David Chipperfield, Kengo Kuma and Pôle Muséal Support Foundation President Olivier Steimer has announced Aires Mateus & Associados winner of an international competition to design the new Pôle Muséal of Lausanne. The Portuguese architects, chosen over 20 other practices, were lauded by the jury for designing a proposal that was "coherent, simple and bright."

Their design, "One museum, two museums" is comprised as a single exterior shell made up of two parts: the Musée de l’Elysée (Museum of Photography) and mudac (Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts). Both museums are connected by a shared entrance that "forms a natural extension to the public esplanade." By 2020, the design will be realized, transforming a former railroad site into a premier section of the city's art district. 

Dürig AG has won a competition to design a new Student Housing building for the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Dubbed Vortex, the residential building will house 1,350 students and is also a candidate for the Athletes Village for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games. For this reason, the design of the building includes a common path that spirals from the ground floor to the rooftop, creating a distinct social atmosphere that caters to students and athletes.

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