Located in the Upper Engadine, one of Switzerland’s most scenic valleys, St Moritz receives up to a quarter of a million visitors a year, who are attracted to the famed natural beauty and alpine pursuits.
Cocoon is located in Zurich’s Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views.
The large letters of the sign mark the approach to the Rigiblick hotel and theatre space, a popular goal for excursions on the Zürichberg, with a unique view of the Rigi (mountain) and across the city of Zurich.
In order to create a unified experience given the different programs – Single Family House, Double Family House and Triple Family House – it is achieved through a basic ground figure, the square.
The typology of these town villas is related to the two houses by Alfred Roth and Marcel Breuer in the Doldertal (1936) and to the concept of the palazzine as, for example, developed in Rome by Adalberto Libera and Luigi Moretti.
The Werd office building complex was built between 1970 and 1975 by the architects A. F. Sauter and A. Dirler (see also the housing complex in the Sunnige Hof siedlung).
The two similar building volumes ¾comparable to the Tintin detectives “Thomson” and “Thompson”¾ are specified in the design plan. They define a courtyard-like external space that forms the social centre of the complex with a view of Multengut, which gives the complex its name.
The semi-transparent sunscreen, which can alternately be fixed close or rolled up open, uses specially-manufactured membrane (polymer-laminated) fabric printed on both sides with an ultra large plant motif.
The volumes of the individual buildings are staggered, both horizontally and vertically. In this way they react to the sloping topography.
They illustrate the move towards increased density at present occurring in this popular residential district. The issues are therefore integration in the existing context, the grain and the sculptural design of the volumes.
The unique premise situated below Pflugstein, a popular recreational destination above the lake of Zurich, consists of two different zones, one on a higher artificial plateau and the other one on a declining hillside overlooking the lake.
The two housing blocks are part of an overall plan by burkhalter sumi architects. In a reference to the guideline planning for the Sulzerareal in Oberwinterthur the long building volumes are at right angles to Eulachpark.
New offices for Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich, Switzerland, where the design cultivates an energized and inspiring work environment that is relaxed but focused, and buzzing with activities.
Foster + Partners’ scheme integrates a substantial new extension, more than doubling the hotel accommodation and reconnecting it to the surrounding forest and resort.
To react on the spatial situation of the Siewerdtstrasse a design strategy was developed that adapts the building mass and the apartment types to the different spatial conditions. In contrast to the northern side of the building, which represents a classical frontage, the southern façade is stepped and modulated, structuring the courtyard.
About 3.35 Mio CHF are available for upgrading the railway station Hardbrücke. Selective measures are used to strengthen the identity of the railway station, facilitate the orientation and upgrade the areaway.
The public records office is the collective memory of the political, economic and cultural life of a canton. This makes the questions of an adequate urban location and appropriate architectural expression of central importance.
Most holiday houses look identical, i.e. like conventional single-family houses. The topography, character and quality of the location are seldom taken into account in the planning.
