Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss Architects, Building Photos, Studio News, Designs, Images
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
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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
Rue des Suisses Apartment Building, 19 rue des Suisses, Paris XIV, France
2000
Signal Box Auf dem Wolf, Basel, Switzerland
1989-95
photo : the antillia collective
see Basel Architecture link above
New Link Quay project, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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More Herzog & De Meuron Architecture online soon
More photos of this architecture studio’s major early building in Barcelona:
Barcelona Forum images © Adrian Welch
Location: Rheinschanze 6, 4056 Basle, Switzerland, Europe
Further Practice Information
Head office – address: Rheinschanze 6, 4056 Basle, Switzerland
Contact: +41 (0)61 385 57 57
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog + Pierre de Meuron
photo © 2011, Marco Grob
Herzog & de Meuron branch offices: Barcelona, Beijing, London, Munich, San Francisco
Jacques Herzog:
photo courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop and 303 Gallery, NY
Herzog & de Meuron Architects designed the Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg, Germany.
Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron were Pritzker Prize architects Winners in 2001.
London Architecture Designs – Tate Modern London + Laban Centre London
Buildings / photos for the Herzog & De Meuron Designs page welcome
Website: Herzog & De Meuron Switzerland
