Zurich-based architects Mathis Kamplade have designed a free-standing apartment building set back from the street in an urban setting. The structure, composed of concrete pillars with stiffening walls and plastered brick infills, is legible from both the inside and outside.
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Zurich Design Weeks 2024: Good News
12 – 29 September 2024 | ZURICH
The third edition of Zurich Design Weeks is centered on the theme of ‘GOOD NEWS,’ aiming to highlight positive developments in design over a three-week period. The event seeks to counteract our natural tendency to focus on negative news by showcasing progress, sustainable ideas, and innovations that inspire optimism. It emphasizes design’s role as a problem-solving discipline that can create solutions to pressing global issues, making the world more sustainable, beautiful, and efficient.
[Read more…] about Zurich Design Weeks 2024: Good NewsEM2N City Factory, Advocating for a City of Co-Existance
Park Books has released EM2N City Factory, the first major monograph highlighting Swiss architect EM2N’s 25-year contribution to Zurich’s urban transformation. The book is edited by EM2N’s founding partners, Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli, with contributions from fellow architects Caspar Schärer and Medine Altiok.
[Read more…] about EM2N City Factory, Advocating for a City of Co-ExistanceHigh-rise H1 building in Zurich by Bolthauser Architekten
Swiss-based Bolthauser Architekten has designed the high-rise H1 building on the Zwhatt site, in the Banhoff Nord development area of Regensdorf, near Zurich. The building is a response to a pavilion designed by artist Alexander Brodsky and is part of Peter Märkli’s masterplan, which includes a second high-rise building designed by Märkli. The 24-storey, 75-meter tall building is constructed with a three-floor concrete ‘table’ supporting a timber structure above. The ground floor is accessible to the public and includes a bistro, while the next two floors comprise co-working areas. Above this, there are 150 apartments of various sizes, configured according to the timber structure.
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30 September – 1 October 2023, ZURICH.
This is the 8th year of Open House Zurich and over 130 buildings and outdoor spaces, that are normally closed to the public, will be accessible with guided tours by architects, curators, building users and volunteers. Buildings include the extension to the Landesmuseum Zurich by architects Christ and Gantenbein, Casa Zentner by Italian architects Carlo Alberto Scarpa and the apartment building on Forsterstrasse by architects Christian Kerez.
[Read more…] about Open House Zurich 2023Zurich Design Weeks and Design Biennale Zurich 2023
31 August – 19 September 2023, ZURICH.
In 2023, Zurich Design Weeks returns for its second edition centred around ‘TRANSITION’, exploring ‘a world undergoing complex changes’. There are over 60 programs comprising exhibitions, events, talks, and walks around the city. Additionally, this year’s focus on the Circular Circuit highlights Zurich’s role as the first Swiss city to establish a legally recognized circular economy. The information hub for Zurich Design Week is the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
[Read more…] about Zurich Design Weeks and Design Biennale Zurich 2023Roger Boltshauser: Response
Park Books has published ‘Roger Boltshauser: Response’, a book edited by the Galerie d’Architecture de Paris that reviews 12 recent buildings by Zurich-based Swiss architects Roger Boltshauser Architekten. The book features photographs by Italian Swiss architecture photographer Luca Ferrarios, hand drawings by Roger Boltshauser and text by Reinhard Gassner, Jonathan Sergison, Alexandre Theriot and Jan de Vylder. Photo © Luca Ferrario. Park Books
