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The INSIDE retail and office centre is set to become a key new attraction of Volketswil’s commercial district. The design of the elegantly curved five-storey construction takes up the theme of fashion and sets the tone for the urban landscape with an impact that extends beyond the region.
Over an area of almost 150 hectares in the locality of Andermatt, the year-round tourist resort Andermatt Swiss Alps is being built. Hotels as well as apartments, an 18-hole golf course and a sports center will provide housing and recreation for up to 3000 guests. Despite the substantial size of the resort, the goal is to create a sustainable, high-quality tourist experience.
In downtown Thun at the site of the former commercial and industrial property that belongs to the Emmi Group and the cinema Rex, a new city-within-a-city is being created that brings together living, work, recreation and shopping.
Oxygen was once produced in two centrally located industrial plants. Suurstoffi (the Swiss German word for oxygen), a new complex of buildings will soon occupy this space. Suurstoffi is a response to the development of Risch-Rotkreuz into a single city, creating living space for several hundred people as well as work environments for two to three thousand jobs.
Rising like an exclamation mark to the west of Dietikon town centre, the tower block known as the RWD-Hochhaus is visible far and wide. It was constructed in 1962 as part of a modernist urban planning vision and, with its great height and form, immediately became a landmark of Dietikon and the surrounding area. More than 40 years later, we were commissioned to renovate it.
Wasserchloss is a residential building placed along a river bank. Apartments on four floors offer a view over the Aare river to a protected green lanscape. Balconies, terraces and gardens allow residents to enjoy this unique environment. The facades are clad in glass and metal, in reference to the sites industrial past.
At the edge of the town of Schöningen and its open-cast lignite mine lies the site of a remarkable, world-famous Stone-Age find: the Schöningen Spears – the oldest complete hunting weapons ever found. It is now also the location of a new and emblematic research and experience centre that is visible from far around.
The site of the former salami factory Cattaneo in the heart of Dietikon has been turned into an urban environment for living and working. It integrates the historic character of the location and its cosmopolitan outlook and represents the development of Dietikon from a village to a city in the larger context of Zurich.
In 2000, New York architect Daniel Libeskind won the architectural competition to design a leisure and shopping centre in Bern-Brünnen. Barbara Holzer was responsible for overall architectural management right through to the centre’s opening in 2008.
In the center of Wrocław, where the city meets the park, the Museum of Contemporary Art will soon be built. The spacious atrium of the museum building connects the two main entrances and serves as a public pathway between the old city and the Park, along which a row of museums stretches.
In 1999, unlicensed treasure hunters unearthed a remarkable archaeological relic: a 3,600-year-old sky disc made of bronze inlaid with gold. It depicts complex constellations and the symbol of the solar barge representing the sun’s nightly passage from west to east. An architectural competition was launched to design a public archaeological centre and an observation tower that would showcase the disc and come to symbolize the region.
The Drents Museum is a historic building in the heart of the Old Town of Assen, which is a protected monument. The concept, devised in collaboration with Drexler Guinand Jauslin architects, envisaged a restructuring and densification of the existing building at its historic location, rather than a separate extension in the neighbouring park as had originally been proposed.
The future location of the National Library is on a small hill opposite the Old Town near the Letná Park, adjoining the bustling Milady Horákové street. The competition design reflects the contrast between the green of the park and the heterogeneous urban scenery, and the building’s arrangement and shape bring the two distinct areas together.
Not far from Lucerne’s old city center lies Switzerland’s first shopping center, designed by the architect Alfred Roth. Schönbühl Shopping Center was completed in 1967 as an innovative urban construction project, and is connected to the attached residential high rise built by Alvar Aalto.
Seen in the context of today’s large shopping malls, Schönbühl is a well integrated regional center which attracts visitors from surrounding areas.
This commercial building on Eichstrasse in the prosperous southern section of Zurich was erected in the 1950s and was at the time awarded the distinction of “Good building of the city of Zurich”. The project for the conversion of the structure into a multi-functional complex with residential, office and commercial space embodies the need for new urban living spaces.
Expo.02, the sixth Swiss National Exhibition, took place over a six-month period at five locations in the bilingual Three Lakes region.
The Arteplages at Biel, Murten, Neuchâtel and Yverdon-les-Bains and the mobile Arteplage in the Jura region showcased, defined and examined contemporary Switzerland via topics both specific and universal.
