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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, L3P Architekten, Random pattern, Stair, Switzerland
L3P Architekten has completed the Externally United – Internally Atwain Duplex House (low-energy consumption building), 5408 Ennetbaden Aargau, Switzerland 2012. Despite the small block of land (637m2), a generous duplex house has been developed in an architecturally heterogeneous neighbourhood on the south face of Ennetbaden, which, in reference to organisation, takes an interesting and unconventional [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
L3P Architekten has completed the new replacement apartment house at Glättlistrasse 31 and 33. The Glättlistrasse neighbourhood, located in the Zurich district of Altstett, is a typical 1950s suburban development. The construction brief for this project was to replace four terraced houses and a kindergarten that was no longer needed with a single apartment house [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Display design, Switzerland
Zurich-based Studio KMJ recently has completed Chocolate-Boutique in Zermatt, Switzerland. + All images courtesy Studio KMJ
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Contemporary vernacular, Random pattern, Switzerland, Timber
Atelier d’architecture Ralph Germann recently have completed Vallée de Joux. Secret land for some, the land of the wolf for others, both wild and super industrialized, the Vallée de Joux intrigues, fascinates or repels… Roger Guignard, Journalist and editor of « Vallée de Joux, Une île à l’envers » It is in respect of that [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Max Dudler, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
Historically significant Hambach Castle has been modernised and extended for restaurant use by architect Max Dudler. Max Dudler’s idea was to turn the accessible castle wall into a usable space. This he achieved through his choice of building material – using the same type of stone for the facades as had been used for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Serge Schoemaker architects, Switzerland
A Swiss congregation commissioned Dutch-based practice Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion of the prominently located ‘Villa Erica’ boarding school in Locarno. The design transforms the 6.100 m2 large complex from the seventies into thirty apartments. Built in 1978, the boarding school of the congregation Barmherzige Schwestern vom heiligen Kreuz is [...]
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Category: Design, Technology Tags: Random pattern, Switzerland, Tokujin Yoshioka, Watch
“LAKE OF SHIMMER” – AVANT Time Nº 3 by Tokujin Yoshioka 2012 -The passage of time marked by the luminance of crystal- “LAKE OF SHIMMER”-AVANT TIME Nº3, watch, was presented by SWAROVSKI at Baselworld in Switzerland in March of 2012. The watch, distinctly representing brand’s elegant and poetic essence, marks the passage of time by [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Auditorium, Concrete, Switzerland, Valerio Olgiati
The placement of the new auditorium creates a new central square within the overall structure of the Plantahof agriculture school. The high façade holds together the new piazza. The inner space of the auditorium lies in half-light. Two windows facing each other define the inner space and allow for a view from the new piazza [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: 2:pm architectures, Switzerland
The urban shape is clarified. A huge ground treatment unifies the whole center of the city and two complementary squares, an open one and a contained one, harmonize the spaces. New spots to discover are offered to strollers and improve the urban pattern. Urban Stage The surrounding vineyard parcels landscapes inspire the new ground pattern. [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Office Tags: COR-TEN, Switzerland, Valerio Olgiati, Workplace
The Bardill Studio building has replaced an old barn in the protected centre of the village of Scharans. Building permission was granted by the local authorities on the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn. The client, Linard Bardill, who lives in a house a very short [...]
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Category: Design, Sanitary Tags: Manuel Dreesmann, Sanitary, Switzerland
Together with the Swiss company Bagno Sasso, Manuel Dreesmann developed this new bathtubs Ocean wing & Ocean wave. Both are unique objects which fit perfectly into the modern bath lounge. The main structure of both bathtubs is made out of corian which makes the organic and dramatic forms possible. Ocean Wave is a celebration of a [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Concrete, Shelter, Switzerland
The market square’s new cover represents a sensitive approach to urban planning that is as much an engineering feat as a challenge for the town planners. The aim has been to combine nature and novel architecture to create a harmonious and symbolic whole that is adapted to all the activities associated with Renens’s town centre. [...]
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