Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss Architects, Building Photos, Studio News, Designs, Images

Herzog & de Meuron Architects

Contemporary Swiss Architecture Practice: Switzerland Design Office News

post updated 10 Apr 2021

Herzog de Meuron – Key Buildings

Major Architectural Projects by this Swiss architects office, chronological:

Vitra Haus showrooms, Germany
2010
Bird’s Nest, Beijing, China
2008
Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
2008
Allianz Arena – Football stadium, Munich, Germany
2004
Barcelona Forum, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Laban Centre, London, England, UK
2002
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, England, UK
2000
Dominus Winery, Yountville, California, USA
1998

Barcelona Forum photo © Adrian Welch

Herzog & de Meuron Architects Introduction

Herzog de Meuron are celebrated Swiss architects. Their buildings are consistently innovative and contemporary. Designs by the studio are bold but not typically curvilinear (the Bird’s Nest is not typical) like major architects such as Zaha Hadid or Frank Gehry. Similar famous architects to this Swiss architecture office include Rem Koolhaas (OMA) and Jean Nouvel in the use of strong, dynamic forms that are cleanly detailed.

This Swiss architects studio was a RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner in 2007

Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany
Date built: 2005
Allianz Arena lit in the colours of FC Bayern München:

photo from architects
Allianz Arena Munich
The 2012 UEFA Champions League Final was the first Champions League Final to be held in this beautiful building.

Herzog de Meuron News

Wood Wharf, London, England, UK
This award-winning Swiss architectural studio is to design new residential tower at Wood Wharf adjacent to Canary Wharf, reports Phaidon.
Canary Wharf Group has appointed the celebrated Swiss architects to design a new residential tower at Wood Wharf, an eight-hectare redevelopment adjacent to Canary Wharf. The redevelopment of the site is being masterplanned by Farrell and Partners.
Latest design by Herzog de Meuron – external link

Nov 27, 2012
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, USA

picture from Parrish Art Museum
Parrish Art Museum
A new 34,400 sqft building. The building contains more than 2,600 works ranging from early nineteenth-century landscape paintings through American Impressionism and into the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, London, England, UK
Design with Ai Weiwei

image © Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, London
The design team responsible for the celebrated Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games, comes together again in London in 2012 for the Serpentine’s acclaimed annual commission, being presented as part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. The Pavilion is the first collaborative built structure in the UK with celebrated Chinese installation artist Ai Weiwei.

Projet Triangle, Paris, France
Date: 2008-

image © architecture practice
Projet Triangle

Actelion Business Center, Switzerland, central Europe
Date built: 2010

photo from ABC
Actelion Business Center

1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Date built: 2010

photo : Nelson Garrido/1111Lincoln Road MBeach1, LLLP
1111 Lincoln Road

Featured Herzog de Meuron Buildings

Vitra Haus showrooms, Germany, northern Europe
Date built: 2010

photograph Iwan Baan, © Vitra
Vitra Haus

Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
Date built: 2008

photograph © Mark Bentley
Caixa Forum Madrid

Tate Modern Extension, London, England, UK
Date built: 2009-16

image © architecture practice
Tate Modern Extension
This ten-storey tower, 65 metre-high building located above the oil tanks opened to the public on 17 June 2016.

Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany
Date built: 2017

image © architecture practice
Elbphilharmonie
The Elbphilharmonie is a concert hall on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. Nicknamed Elphi it is one of the largest and acoustically most advanced concert halls in the world.
The building sits on top of an old warehouse building. It is the tallest inhabited building in Hamburg, at 108 m high. It was officially inaugurated on 11 January 2017.

National Stadium – Bird’s Nest, Beijing, northern China
Date built: 2008
Design with Arup and China Architecture Design & Research Group

photo © Arup_Ben McMillan
Birds Nest Beijing

Laban Centre, London, England, UK
Date built: 2002

photo : Tim Crocker
Laban Centre

Forum Building / Edifici Fòrum, Diagonal Mar – Barcelona Forum, Catalunya, Spain
Date built: 2004

Barcelona Forum image © Adrian Welch
Forum Building Barcelona : “slice of floating blue cheesecake”

Tate Modern Building, London, England, UK
Date built: 2000

picture © Adrian Welch
Tate Modern

Roche Tower, Basel, Switzerland
Date built: 2011

image from architects
Roche Tower Basel

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Date built: 2005
Design with HGA, Inc.

photo : Paul Warchol
Walker Art Center

Prada Store, Tokyo, Japan
Date built: 2003

picture © James Whitaker 2009 www.WhitakerStudio.co.uk
Prada Store Tokyo

Herzog and de Meuron Practice Information

Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog formed their architecture practice in 1978 but only became ‘Herzog & de Meuron’ in 1997.

Their architects studio is based in Basel (address at the base of this page), Switzerland.

Harry Gugger joined as Partner in 1991; Christine Binswanger in 1994, Robert Hösl & Ascan Mergenthaler in 2004.

This Swiss architectural office won the Stirling Prize in 2003 for their Laban Centre in London, UK.

Key Architectural Awards

Pritzker Architecture Prize 2001
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1993
Max Beckmann Award 1996
Rolf Schock Prize for the Visual Arts 1999
Prix Equerre d’Argent 2001

Herzog and de Meuron Architects : Key Buildings listed chronologically + information on Education, Teaching and Exhibitions

Building News Archive

Helsinki Waterfront Hotel, Finland
2008-10

Lord’s Ground Masterplan, London, England
2008-
Lords Masterplan

Portsmouth Stadium development, Hampshire, England
2007-

picture © architecture office
Portsmouth Stadium : building delay news, Mar 2009

40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan, USA
2007
Ian Schrager condominium – serviced apartments + townhouses: 11 storeys
23 apartments + 5 New York townhouses, façade includes green glass tubes

Roche : New Tower + New research & development facility, Switzerland
2006-
For: Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche
Location: headquarters complex, on River Rhine – Schatzaep Davos, Grisons
Cost: 800m Swiss francs for both projects

de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
2005

St Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland
2000-01

photo : the antillia collective
Basel Architecture