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Contemporary Swiss Architecture Practice – Zurich Architects Firm.

post updated 15 December 2024

Gigon/Guyer – Latest Design

Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Date built:

picture © GigonGuyer
Kunsthalle Zürich
The Kunsthalle Zürich will re-open to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräu art complex in Zurich on 10 June 2012 with the special exhibition, Looking Back for the Future. Since it was founded in 1985, the Kunsthalle Zürich has established itself as one of Europe’s most influential art institutions, helping to define the direction of contemporary art. Having moved to a series of different venues in its early years, the Kunsthalle has been based in the Löwenbräu art complex since 1996.

Gigon/Guyer – Major Projects

Almere – Residential and Retail Building, The Netherlands
Dates built: 2002-07

photo © Adrian Welch
Almere Residential Buildings

Kunstmuseum Basel – remodelling, Switzerland
Dates built: 2003-07

photo : the antillia collective
Basel Architecture

Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, Switzerland
Date built: 2009

image from architect studio
Swiss Museum of Transport
The current project is based on the 1999 competition. At that point the brief represented an urban design vision for the gradual renovation of the museum complex with its various buildings exhibiting the different means of transport, as well as a new building for the Road Transport Hall.

Selected Projects by Gigon/Guyer

Buildings by Gigon/Guyer Architects arranged chronologically:

Kirchner Museum Davos, Switzerland
Date built: 1992

Residential housing, Kilchberg, Switzerland
Date built: 1996

O. Reinhart Collection Römerholz, Winterthur, Switzerland
Date built: 1998
Building Extension and Renovation

Museum Liner Appenzell Building, Switzerland
Date built: 1998
Museum Liner Appenzell

Signal box, Zurich, Switzerland
Date built: 1999

Archaeological Museum and Park, Kalkriese, Osnabrück, Germany
Date built: 2002

Housing project Susenbergstrasse, Zurich
Date built: 2000
Susenbergstrasse apartments

Auditorium University of Zurich Building
2002

Museum for the collection Albers/Honegger Mouans Sartoux, France
2004

Housing project ‘Pflegi’, Zürich
2002

Art Gallery Henze&Ketterer, Wichtrach, Switzerland
2004

Remodelling of the Art Museum Basel, Switzerland – see link further up this page
2007

Housing/office building Almere, The Netherlands
2007

Housing project Brunnenhofstrasse, Zurich
2007
Brunnenhof Housing

Housing project Park Grünenberg, Wädenswil, Switzerland
2007
Park Grünenberg Housing

Swiss Museum of Transport Building, Lucerne (link above)
2009

Office building ‘Prime Tower’ with annexes, Zurich
2010
Prime Tower Zurich Building

More buildings by Gigon/Guyer Architekten online soon

Location: Zurich, Switzerland, central Europe

Zurich Architects Practice Information

Gigon/Guyer architect studio based in Zurich, Switzerland.

This architects office was established with Kirchner Museum competition win, Davos, 1989

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Website: www.gigon-guyer.ch

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Swiss Architectural Designs

Swiss Architecture Designs – architectural selection below:

Swiss Architecture Designs – chronological list

Zurich Architecture Walking Tours – bespoke city walks by e-architect guides

Design: SSA Architekten, Basel, Switzerland

photograph © Ruedi Walti
Weltpostpark residential buildings Bern
The last apartments in the SSA Architekten-designed Weltpostpark development are now occupied. The striking six-storey residential buildings have an urban feel about them, while the park-like surroundings and the varied clinker brick facades create a homely atmosphere.

Rosengarten Student Residence, Bucheggstrasse, Zürich
Design: ETH Zurich

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Rosengarten Student Residence in Zürich
The 18 shared housing units offer an affordable place to live tailored to the needs of its 130 student residents. At the same time, the district of Wipkingen will benefit from facilities and services for childcare, commercial space and a public park.