Olympic Museum Lausanne – Switzerland

Olympic Museum Lausanne

Design: Mather & Co. The new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland has opened. The museum has three floors of permanent exhibition galleries. Mather & Co developed the narrative and themes and 3D designs of all the museum spaces. The building is the largest centre dedicated to telling the story of the Olympic Movement.

Chiasso Design Competition, Switzerland

urban design for Chiasso

Design: Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners with C+S Architects. The Italian joint-venture between Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners and C+S Architects, in collaboration with a swiss Engineering team wins the international competition for the requalification of the railway station area of Chiasso in Switzerland.

Geneva Dance Pavilion Building

Geneva Dance Pavilion

Geneva Dance Pavilion, building, Switzerland – design by Mauro Turin Architectes – the beginning of the project is marked by the abstraction of the gutter of the Place Charles-Sturm: Swiss building design.

House D: Nuglar Residence

House D: Nuglar Residence

The view is one of a kind. You might imagine you‘re in South America or upstate New York, and it is really hard to believe that Basel is just 25 minutes away. As the last house to be built in Nuglar, in the canton of Solothurn, House D is privileged.

Kappel Monastery, Switzerland Building

Kappel Monastery, Switzerland Building

Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with BBZ landscape architects has recently won the invited international competition for the revitalization / development of Kappel Monastery near Zürich / Switzerland.

Urban Hybrid in Emmen, Switzerland

Urban Hybrid in Emmen, Switzerland

The city of Emmen has announced that investment corporation Senn BPM AG together with MVRDV are the winners of the Feldbreite competition for a housing block with 95 homes of 16 different types.

Allianz Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Allianz Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

The Allianz Headquarters is an office complex occupying two buildings linked by a series of bridges and interlocked by a central staircase rising the height of the entire building within a centrally positioned void.

Sequential Wall Zurich: Gramazio & Kohler

Sequential Wall Zurich - Gramazio & Kohler

In the follow-up course the students were challenged to integrate the functional requirements to an external timber wall – for example its loadbearing and insulating behaviour as well as its constructive waterproofing – into their designs systems as generative parameters.

Hotel Park and Seeallee, Heiden Building

Hotel Park and Seeallee - Heiden Building

The Park Hotel is located in a strategic point in Heiden, where different urban conditions come together. The landscape continuity crossing the plot area, the particular building density and its relevant position from the main entrance to the city.

Cinema Hall Locarno Film Festival – Ticino Building

Cinema Hall Locarno Film Festival - Ticino Building

The design of the future Cinema Hall was inspired by a strong urban vision; the will to create a building that is at the same time unique and harmonious, which refuses to be a stand-alone project by participating actively to the landscape of the city of Locarno.

Schaerer Residential Building: Swiss Housing

Schaerer Residential Building

In the centre of Erlenbach, a town on the edge of Lake Zurich, a new housing building has been constructed on the premises of the Schärer Erlenbach company. The former factory, where machines for the textile industry were produced and which used to be so important for the region, has also received a new front building.

Vedeggio-Cassarate Gallery, Lugano tunnel

Vedeggio-Cassarate Gallery - Lugano Building

Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.