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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.
Nowadays musical theatres are inherent parts of our urban cultural landscape. There is a correlation between the establishment of this popular performing art and the choice of unconventional venues.
The building makes do with residual spaces between the root protection areas around the existing trees. New public building in Zurich, Switzerland design by EM2N Architects
Contemporary Arosio House, architecture in Switzerland: Lugano home design by LANDSarchitetture – new Swiss property near Lugano, information and photos
Science City is the development vision for the university campus of the 21st century. The board of governors of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, or ETH Zurich) formulated a strategic vision as the basis for current and future developments.
In fact, all the clients originally wanted was a larger living room window – now their three children live in a patio house of their own.
The village of Paspels is a scatter settlement with solitary buildings, strewn loosely in the landscape and rarely positioned directly by the roadside. The new schoolhouse fits in with this type of settlement.
This house, unoccupied for twenty years, became popularly known as ‘the yellow house’ when it was refinished and painted yellow prior to its renovation.
Atelier Bardill, Scharans, Switzerland – contemporary Swiss building design by Valerio Olgiati Architects, a private atelier – one working space for client Linard Bardill, a musician + poet
Comano, set at 5 km north from Lugano (Ticino), is a little village at the foot of a hill. The plot is set as a kind of boundary between the hill and the new urbanized area on a flatter surface.
Carabbia is a little village of approx 600 inhabitants. It rises on the western side of Mount San Salvatore slope in a beautiful bowl. Ticino Architecture design by Davide Macullo Architects
Located in one of sunniest places of southern Switzerland, this house rises on the site where once old rural constructions were.
The Siemens Restaurants were built following a successful architectural design competition and represent a new generation of staff catering facilities.
The new tyre fitting shop / art exchange is situated on a brownfield site adjacent to the lake of Zurich, between the railway station of Zurich-Wollishofen, a bus stop and the main access road into the centre of Zurich.
Situated in a sought-after residential area close to the centre of Zurich, the Sempacher Loft Apartments are an excellent example of modern and sustainable town renewal.
The eight new apartment and office buildings are situated close to the town centre of Zurich and offer stunning views of the lake and surrounding cityscape.