Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Building Images, Swiss Design Studio, Office, Pictures

Herzog & de Meuron Architects News

Contemporary Swiss Architecture Practice – Design Office in Switzerland

post updated 8 September 2021

Herzog & de Meuron News

Herzog & de Meuron Architecture News

8 Sep 2021
M+ Museum of Contemporary Visual Culture, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China
Design: Herzog & de Meuron with TFP Farrells and Arup

photo © Virgile Simon Bertrand
M+ Museum of Contemporary Visual Culture Building
M+ is Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture. Designed by the world-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup, the M+ building is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, set to become a significant addition to the global arts and cultural landscape as well as a new international architectural icon.

7 Sep 2021
The Landmark Building For The Royal College Of Art, London, England, UK

picture courtesy of architecture practice
News online soon!

7 Aug 2017 – Iconic Awards news
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Building, Germany
German Federal Chancellor attends Opening Ceremony for the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

photo : Thies Rätzke
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg Building
The honorary prize for Architects’ Client of the Year, with which the jury pays tribute to the promotion of a holistic understanding of architecture by a commissioning entity, went to the City of Hamburg. The Elbphilharmonie, which opened in 2017, is not merely another concert hall, but a world-class architectural icon of inestimable cultural value.

16 Dec 2016
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy

photo : Mario Carrieri
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Milan
The Feltrinelli Porta Volta complex, the first building in Italy by the firm Herzog & de Meuron that is open to the public, plays an important role in a strategic area of Milan that has been undergoing a far-reaching process of urban regeneration in recent years.

10 Nov 2016
Royal College of Art Design Competition for Battersea South Campus, London, England, UK

image © 2016, Herzog & de Meuron
Royal College of Art Design Competition
This architecture studio are the winners of the invited competition to appoint architects for its new state-of-the-art £108m Battersea South campus.

14 Jan 2016
160 Leroy Street Condominium Building, New York City, NY, USA

picture courtesy of this Swiss Architecture Practice
160 Leroy Street Condo
New images released of the latest project in New York by Swiss architects studio: the 12-story condominium building at 160 Leroy Street has a curved concrete and glass facade.

New Chelsea Football Stadium, London, England, UK

picture courtesy architect practice
New Chelsea Football Stadium

Major Herzog & de Meuron Projects, chronological:

Blue House, Oberwil, Switzerland 1980
Stone House, Tavole, Italy 1988
Apartment Building along a Party Wall, Basel, Switzerland 1988
Goetz Collection, Gallery for Private Collection of Modern Art, Munich, Germany 1992
Housing, St Alban-Tal, Basel, Switzerland 1982
Ricola Factory Addition, Laufen, Switzerland 1989-91
Kempinski Residence, Dresden, Germany 1989
Rudin House, Leymen, France 1997-98
Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland 1997-98
Ricola Marketing Building, Laufen, Switzerland 1998
Eberswalde Technical School Library, Eberswalde, Germany 1997-99
Köppersmöhle Museum: Grothe Collection, Duisburg, Germany 1997-99
Apartment buildings, Rue des Suisses, Paris, France 1998-2000
Roche Pharma Research Institute, Basel, Switzerland 1999-2000
Commercial / Apartments Building, Solothurn, Switzerland 1998-2000
Commercial / Apartments Building, Munich, Germany 1998-2000
Museum Küppersmühle – Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany 2000
Ricola AG Administration building, Laufen, Basel, Switzerland 2000
Kunsthalle in den Fünf Höfen, Munich, Germany 2000-01
St Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland 2000-01
Laban Dance Centre, London, UK 2002/03
Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel, Switzerland 2003
Prada store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan 2003
Andreas Gursky Home / Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany 2004
Cottbus Technical University Library, Germany 2005
Walker Art Center Extension, Minneapolis, USA 2005
Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany 2005
de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA 2005
Portsmouth Stadium development, England 2007-
Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany 2007-
40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan, New York, USA 2007
National Stadium : The Water Cube, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, China 2003-07
Roche: New Tower + New research and development facility, Switzerland 2006-
Schatzalp Hotel Extension, Switzerland 2007-
Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany 2007-
Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA 2007-
Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain 2008
BBVA headquarters, Madrid, Spain 2009-
Vitra Haus showrooms, Germany 2010

Herzog and de Meuron Awards

– Pritzker Prize Winners 2001 – Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
– Stirling Prize 2003 winner for the Laban Centre London
– RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners 2007
– Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1993
– Max Beckmann Award 1996
– Rolf Schock Prize for the Visual Arts 1999
– Prix Equerre d’Argent 2001

Building Links

Key Architectural Designs, alphabetical:

, Munich, Germany:

Allianz Arena photo from architects
Munich Stadium – Allianz Arena , Germany

Birds Nest, Beijing, China
Birds Nest Beijing

Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
Caixa Forum Madrid

de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
de Young Museum

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Elbphilharmonie

Forum Building Barcelona, Spain

photo © Adrian Welch

Küppersmühle Museum, Germany

Laban Centre, London, England, UK

Lords Masterplan, London, England, UK

Portsmouth Stadium, England

Prada Store Tokyo, Japan

Tate Modern + Tate Modern Extension, London, England, UK

Vitra Haus Building, Weil-an-Rhein, Germany

Walker Art Center, USA

More architecture projects by this celebrated Swiss architects studio online soon

Herzog & de Meuron Architects : images of key buildings

Location: Rheinschanze 6, 4056 Basle, Switzerland, central Europe

Swiss Architecture Practice Information

Branch offices are located (at the time of writing) in Barcelona, Beijing, London, Munich and San Francisco.

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron Education Positions

1975 architecture diploma – ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1977 ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Guest Professorships / Teaching
1989- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA : Jacques Herzog 1989- Pierre de Meuron 1994-
1983 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
1991 Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

1999- ETH Studio Basel, Institute for the Contemporary City

Partners
Harry Gugger + Christine Binswange

Architectural Exhibitions

Architektur Denkform, Architekturmuseum Basel 1988
Herzog & de Meuron: une exposition, curated & designed by Rémy Zaugg,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1995
The Un-Private House, Museum of Modern Art 1999
Works in Progress, Fondazione Prada, Milan 2001
Herzog & de Meuron: Archéologie de l’imaginaire, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 2002
Herzog & de Meuron, Schaulager® Basel 2004