All you need is love...that’s not all. ALL WE NEED explores the world as a global market through the human efforts to dream, imagine and live a happy life. The old „Halle des Soufflantes“ of the Belval Steelworks, an abandonend cathedral of the industrial age, sets the scenery. Within an area of 5000 square meters the exhibition deals with the questions of human needs, the resources of the planet and a fair globalization.
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.
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 Exhibition 0. unravels the history of Swiss diplomacy in the hall of fame of the Swiss State Museum. As a former armory, it gives an exciting and oppositional room to the exhibition subject. A huge white table cloth that is streched across the room, divides it into smaller areas and creates a festive atmosphere. The center of the room is surrounded by showcases displaying historic exhibits.
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.
