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1 paris Projects 31 Created 27-Dec-11 By Lin yilin, shenzhen, China Jussieu 16M Atrium Paris, Périphériques es university Musée du Quai Branly Arab World Institute Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Villa la Roche Centre Georges Pompidou Fondation Cartier Communist Party Headquarters 7 Grande Arche Cinémathèque Française 14 Meditation Space 15 Rue des Suisses 16 Apartment Building by Le Corbusier 17 Paris, Le Corbusier atelier, housing, monument 8 Cité de Refuge 18 Paris, Le Corbusier health care, social housing 9 Pavillon Suisse 19 Paris, Le Corbusier student housing 10 Maison du Brésil 20 Paris, Le Corbusier student housing 11 Paris, Oscar Niemeyer government, office Paris, Herzog and De Meuron housing Paris, Jean Nouvel exposition space, museum, office 6 Paris, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners auditorium, congress centre, exposition space, library, museum 13 Paris, Tadao Ando memorial space, religion Paris, Le Corbusier atelier, private house 5 Paris, Le Corbusier private house, museum, gallery House and studio Ozenfant Le Grand Louvre Paris, Gehry Partners auditorium, cinema, library, museum Paris, Dominique Perrault square, library, landmark 4 Paris, Jean Nouvel culture, library, museum Paris, IM Pei museum Paris, Jean Nouvel museum 3 Parc de la Villette 21 Paris, Bernard Tschumi s leisure, park, urban plan 12 Paris, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen exposition space, landmark, office Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir 22 Paris, Feichtinger es bridge 1

2 Eiffel Tower Paris, Gustave Eiffel landmark, watch-tower Maison de Tristan Tzara Railway Switching Box Stadelhofen Station Library of the Institute of Law 25 Aussersihl Community Centre 29 Cubus Office Building 30 Leutschenbach School 31 Zurich, Switzerland Christian Kerez kindergarten, primary school, sport 26 Heidi Weber Museum 32 Zurich, Switzerland Le Corbusier museum 27 Zurich, Switzerland Santiago Calatrava archive, library, renovation, university Brunnenhof Zurich, Switzerland Gigon Guyer Architekten car park, office Zurich, Switzerland Santiago Calatrava train station 24 Zurich, Switzerland Gigon Guyer Architekten industry, office, watch-tower Zurich, Switzerland Gigon Guyer Architekten housing, kindergarten, nursery Paris, Adolf Loos private house 23 Platform Office Building 33 Zurich, Switzerland Gigon Guyer Architekten office 28 Zurich, Switzerland EM2N community centre 2

3 photo: Andre Staalenhoef photo: Luc Boegly Jussieu 16M Atrium Place Jussieu Paris photo: Luc Boegly Jussieu Campus consists out of a regular grid of 6-floor wings and is generally decried as an architectural failure The hollow space under the buildings enables wind to build up its force, the regular grid plan is confusing and polluted with asbestos It has increasingly degraded, leaving its facade covered in graffiti The new 16M building extends and completes the grid plan that architect Edouard Albert designed in the 60s; based on the existing system, but at the same time deforms it: where Albert laid out a single patio, Périphériques planned two The façades are glazed on the same pattern as Albert s existing building But the glass metal skin composed of ten types of panels perforated with circular holes of different sizes give the façades complex and variable depth At ground floor, the existing slab on which the university buildings are built folds up in an origami-like orange ramp to even up the levels in a fluid movement Floor area/size m² Périphériques es EPA Jussieu peripheriques The campus is served by the Paris Métro station Jussieu, as well as numerous bus lines 3

4 photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel Musée du Quai Branly Quai Branly Paris Mitterrand sprinkled Paris with bold landmarks, from Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre to Dominique Perrault's National Library Georges Pompidou built the colorful machinelike museum Like its predecessors, Chirac s new Quai Branly has stirred considerable resentment Defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric, it is not an easy building to love Its jumble of different structures, set in a lush green garden on the bank of the Seine in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, hardly conforms to notions of Parisian monumental elegance Yet, Jean Nouvel's design creates a kaleidoscopic montage of urban impressions And once you give yourself over to the experience, you may find it the greatest monument to French popular culture since the Pompidou The building combines angular glass walls with futuristic cubes of bright color and outside, a green wall of thick vegetation, suggestive of a forest or a jungle An enormous curved glass wall shields the garden from cars roaring by An urban oasis photo: musée du quai Branly - Nicolas Borel Floor area/size m² Supplier Jean Nouvel Trespa Etablissement public du Musée du Quai Branly MI_MOA Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6:30 pm, and on Thursdays, till 9:30 pm Closed Monday The museum is next tot the Eiffel Tower Entry to the museum is via rue de l Université or via Quai Branly Metro : Iéna (line 9), Alma-Marceau (line 9), Pont de l Alma (RER C), Bir Hakeim (line 6) Bus : line 42 Eiffel Tower stop; lines 63, 80, 92: Bosquet-Rapp stop; line 72 Musée d art moderne Palais de Tokyo stop River shuttle : Eiffel Tower stop (Batobus, Bateaux parisiens et Vedettes de Paris) Paying car park accessed via 25 quai Branly 4

5 photo: IMA photo: IMA / Georges Fessy Arab World Institute Rue des Fosses-Saint-Bernard Paris In 1980, 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with to establish the AWI to spread knowledge and research the Arab World s language, and its cultural and spiritual values, reflecting the opinion, that the Arab world - its civilization and values, its past and future - needs to be better known and understood in the West It supplies cultural information in a wide range of media: libraries, electronic databanks, a conventional, glass-case museum, audio-visual displays, and an outreach program of touring exhibits and performances as well This is not an Arab building, but an occidental one, it s not pastiche, like the Paris Mosque, but modern and from an urban point of view The Institute is a hinge between 2 cultures and histories Certain symbolic items like the moucharabiehs whose polygons of varying shapes and sizes, create a geometric effect recalling the Alhambra It AWI has been conceived equally by Jean Nouvel, ure-studio, Pierre Soria and Gilbert Lezenes photo: IMA Floor area/size m² Main designer, Jean Nouvel ASure-Studio Gilbert Lezenes Pierre Soria Institut du Monde Arabe MI_MOA Daily from 10:00 to 18:00 except Mondays Library: 13:00 until 20:00 except Sunday and Monday Métro : Jussieu, Cardinal-Lemoine, Sully-Morland Bus : 24, 63, 67, 86, 87,

6 photo: Jeroen Apers photo: Jeroen Apers Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Quai François-Mauriac Paris On 14 July 1988, François Mitterrand announced the construction and the expansion of one of the largest and most modern libraries in the world, intended to cover all fields of knowledge, and designed to be accessible to all, using the most modern data transfer technologies, which could be consulted from a distance, and which would collaborate with other European libraries In July 1989, the services of the architectural firm of Dominique Perrault were retained After the move of the major collections from the rue de Richelieu, the National Library of opened to the public on 20 December 1996 It contains more than ten million volumes The new complex consists of a large esplanade and four identical L-shaped towers, whose form recalls the shape of an open book This architecture was controversial; many considered it too costly, and not very suitable to the storage of book collections Indeed, wooden boards had to be set up at the windows to protect the books from the light photo: Jeroen Apers Floor area/size m² Security consultant Services engineer Dominique Perrault Séchaud & Bossuyt HGM Guy Huguet SA Ministère de la Culture Apers Take the RER to the Library's own station, Bibliothèque François Mitterand 6

7 photo: Michael Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Villa la Roche Square du Docteur-Blanche Paris Villa La Roche was built as a home for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art Among other things, the house would serve as a private gallery to display La Roche's extensive art collection Built in a private Paris courtyard, the house had major constraints imposed by the site and its zoning restrictions, including a north orientation, existing trees and height and boundary limitations Inside the building, to display the art, an architectural promenade was made, a theme inspired by Le Corbusier's visit to the Acropolis in 1911 and repeated most strikingly in his Carpenter centre for the Visual Arts nearly forty years later The promenade goes up and down staircases, leads you through tight spaces, in-between balconies, open surveys, down ramps and into a beautifully lit library This idea of a spatial sequence was re-invented by many modern architects, after Le Corbusier 1925 Main designer, Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Raoul La Roche Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam 10 am to 1230 pm to 6 pm (Mondays 130 pm - Fridays 5 pm) Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm Closed : Sundays, Monday mornings and public holidays The villa is open to the public, administered by the Fondation Le Corbusier, which is based in the adjoining Villa Jeanneret at 8 square du Docteur-Blanche For reservations please call or visit wwwfondationlecorbusierassofr he villa is ten minutes' walk west of Jasmin metro station line 9 (Jasmin) / liges 9 and 10 (Michel-Ange - Auteuil) Bus : line 52 (La Fontaine - Mozart) / Line PC : (Suchet - Raffet) 7

8 photo: Laurent David Ruamps House and studio Ozenfant Avenue Reille Paris The house and studio in Paris for Le Corbusier's friend the painter Ozenfant is an early example of 'minimal' architecture, a prototype of the Domino house and a manifestation of some of the principles which Le Corbusier was to set out in his famous 'five points' It possessed a geometrical clarity inside and out which has since been lost with the elimination of the north-light roof and its replacement by a flat one Project is not public! 1922 Le Corbusier Amédée J Ozenfant Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Metro: Porte d'orléans (line 4) RER: Cité Universitaire (line B) 8

9 photo: Michael Buschor photo: Michael Buschor Centre Georges Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou Paris Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a public library, the Musée National d'art Moderne, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research The building was designed by the architects Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Sue Rogers and engineers Peter Rice and Edmund Happold, whose design was not popular at first However, under the guidance of its first director, Pontus Hultén, it quickly became a noted attraction in Paris The Pompidou 'revolutionized museums,' the Pritzker jury said, 'transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city The characteristic piping is colour-coded according to the contents: yellow for electricity, red for transport, blue for water, and green for air' [Wikipediaorg] photo: Michael Buschor 1977 Main designer, Interior architect Services engineer Contractor Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Gianfranco Franchini Renzo Piano Ove Arup and Partners Grands Travaux de Marseilles Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Ministère de l Education Nationale Buschi Museum, Exhibitions 11am-9pm, ticket counters closed at 8 pm Rooms closed at 850 pm Late night openings for certain exhibitions, as indicated on the website, Thursdays and Fridays to 11 pm Ticket counters closed at 10 pm Atelier Brancusi: every day, except Tuesdays, 2-6 pm To avoid queuing up, best after 5 pm Public Reference Library (Bpi): Weekdays: pm Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays: 11 am-10 pm Metro Stations 'Rambuteau', 'Hôtel de Ville' or 'Châtelet - Les Halles' 9

10 photo: Philippe Ruault photo: Philippe Ruault Fondation Cartier Boulevard Raspail Paris In 1994, the Fondation Cartier moved, exchanging Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles for the boulevard Raspail in the heart of Paris Its new premises were designed by Jean Nouvel, an architect celebrated in and throughout the world for the unique way in which he dematerializes architectural structure He also famously designed the Institut du Monde Arabe (1987) and the Musée du Quai Branly (2006), both in Paris For the external façade, he designed a glass screen running parallel to the boulevard Raspail that would prolong the boulevard s perspective Behind this transparent wall, a cedar of Lebanon planted by Chateaubriand in 1823 emerges from a monumental flower pot clad with multi-colored mosaics, a witty creation by the Italian designer Alessandro Mendini Above the entrance to the building rises a wall of plants commissioned in 1998 from Patrick Blanc, a specialist in tropical botany and the creator of this innovative design photo: Patrick Gries Floor area/size m² Structural engineer Jean Nouvel ARUP Gan Vie boeboe Daily, except Monday, from 11-20:00 hr On Tuesday evenings its open until 22:00 hr The Fondation Cartier is on the east side of the boulevard Raspail in the 14th Arrondissement Either walk North from Denfert-Rochereau (RER Line B or Metro lines 4 and 6) or walk South from Raspail (Metro lines 4 and 6) Bus numbers 38 and 68 stop at Denfert-Rochereau 10

11 photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Communist Party Headquarters Place Colonel Fabien Paris The avant-garde building conceived by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has become super hip In 2000, Italian fashion house Prada rented the building to present its collection Niemeyer has created a beautiful building He wanted a simple construction without ornament The walls of the Place du Colonel Fabien have kept the marks of the wooden boards used to build them Oscar Niemeyer said the headquarters was ''a piece of work which will constitute in this city, I am sure, an example of contemporary architecture, and even, permit me to say, a tourist attraction'' The main conference room with metal slates hanging vertically on the walls is situated below ground level and has Niemeyer desks and chairs The room's dome (see the satellite images) is on the lawn in front of the curved six-story main building, sheathed in glass 1972 Oscar Niemeyer Communist Party Naomi photo: Viktor Ramos open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm; tours by appointment by can be arranged by at vbenoit@pcffr or at or Take the subway to Colonel Fabien, or Jaurès or Bolivar 11

12 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Grande Arche Rue Carpeax Paris The Grande Arche de la Fraternité is a monument in the business district of La Défense to the west of Paris It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche An international design competition was launched at the initiative of French president François Mitterrand Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen ( ) designed the winning entry to be a 20th century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories After Spreckelsen's death in 1987, his associate, French architect Paul Andreu, completed the work The Arche is almost a perfect cube (width: 108m, height: 110m, depth: 112m The two sides house government offices The roof section, exploited by is an exhibition centre 1990 Main designer, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen Paul Andreu City of Paris boeboe photo: Dirk Verwoerd Open 7 days a week : 10am / 8pm from the 1st of April to the 30th of September 10am / 7pm from the 1st of October to the 31th of March Take the subway to La Défense Call or tourisme@grandearchecom 12

13 photo: João Pereira de Sousa photo: João Pereira de Sousa Le Grand Louvre Place du Palais Royal Paris The central courtyard of the museum, on the axis of the Champs-Élysées, is occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, which serves as the main entrance to the museum This leads into a new central circulation space for the main wings of the galleries and as a visual centre point for the vast sprawling exterior The challenge for celebrity architect IM Pei was to create a design that would accomplish its task while at the same time allow the Louvre Museum to remain the focus of attention The solution he came up with was a series of glass pyramids The structures jut into the sky to draw the gaze of tourists and let them know this is where they should be But at the same time it allows both them and the Parisians the ability to see through it and revel in the elder architectural masterpiece The project also included the construction of a shopping mall, cultural center, an auditorium, and parking garages photo: João Pereira de Sousa 1989 Contractor IM Pei Dumez François Mitterrand Lotje The museum is open every day except Tuesday Admission to the Louvre is free on the first Sunday of every month Take the Metro (Lines 1 or 7) to the station Palais Royale Musée du Louvre, and follow signs to the museum; The following bus lines stop in front of the Pyramid: 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95, and the Paris Open Tour bus; An underground parking garage is available for those coming by car The entrance is located on avenue du Général Lemonnier It is open daily from 7 am to 11 pm; If you come by Batobus, get off at the Louvre stop, quai François Mitterrand 13

14 photo: isida photo: isida Cinémathèque Française Rue de Bercy Paris The Cinémathèque is setting up in the building which was initially conceived by the architect Frank O Gehry known as the famous Bilbao Guggenheim museum architect The Cinémathèque building was wittily named "the dancer raising her tutu" by its creator It faces a park on one side and features a reception hall which makes use of space and light in a very nice way, contrasting with the elevation made of white stone on the side facing Bercy Street The inside spaces, reconverted by the architect Dominique Brard, make use of an abundance of inclined planes which enable communication between the different volumes and the great number of overlaped levels [from the project's website] Cinémathèque Française hosts the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world It holds daily screenings of a variety of films from all over the world photo: isida 1994 Main designer, Interior architect Gehry Partners Dominique Brard isida Temporary and permanent exhibitions: During the week from 12 pm to 7 pm, open until 10 pm on Thursdays Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm ural tour for individuals: every first Sunday of the month at 11 am Metro: Bercy - Lignes 6 and 14 Bus:

15 Meditation Space Place de Fontenoy Paris At the very end of the patio of the Japanese garden, with access to the right, is the 33m2, cylindrical, one-story structure is paved with granite exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, subsequently cleaned and used for the floor and base of the pond Commissioned by UNESCO to symbolize peace and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of UNESCO's Constitution Financed through Japanese private donations amounting to approximately 5 million French Francs photo: Piotr Krajewski 1995 Tadao Ando pkrajewski_pl General phone number: +33 (0) Access to the public only on guided tour reservation early in advance Visible behind the gates of Unesco, however By train: RER B from Roissy CDG to Paris St Michel station, every 4 to 15 minutes from 5 am to midnight, fares, combined metro-rer ticket, 770 Take metro line 10, direction Boulogne Pont de St-Cloud to Ségur station This will take you about one hour from Roissy CDG 15

16 photo: Piotr Krajewski Rue des Suisses Rue des Suisses Paris This is the first project in Paris by the Herzog De Meuron team on an unusual site in the 14th Arrondisement not far from Gare Montparnesse The result of a 1966 competition sponsored by the Paris public housing agency Régie Immobilière de la Paris (RVIP), the project is built on three interconnected parcels that include infill sites on two sides of a long perimeter block that face a long narrow plot on the interior of the block The infill buildings are built to the neighbourhood height of 7 floors, while the interior slab is only 3 floors in height Entry to the interior of the block is made beneath the infill buildings In addition to the 4 story difference in building height, the long narrow block designed as a free-standing element in a long narrow garden and is protected with curving rolling wooden blinds that are in sharp contrast to the folding metal blinds that cover the façades of the street buildings The three buildings contain about 60 flats and basement parking Project is not public! 2000 Herzog and De Meuron pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 17/19 Rue des Suisses/Rue Jonquoy, 14th 16

17 photo: goa photo: goa Apartment Building by Le Corbusier Rue Nungesser et Coli Paris This apartment building in Paris - Immeuble Molitor Appartement - was constructed in 1934 with on top the apartment of Le Corbusier himself He lived there his whole life, next to the Parc des Princes It is an interesting building, similar to the Clarté Building in Geneva with its glass façade with rigid exterior This stands in contrast to his own apartment on top, which has roof vaults, old brick walls in his atelier and a little roof terrace Floor area/size m² Main designer,, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Pierre Jeanneret Kouznetzoff - Noble photo: goa Visitable by appointment For reservations please contact Fondation Le Corbusier Tel: +33 (1) reservation@fondationlecorbusierfr Metro: lines 9 and 10 (Michel-Ange - Molitor) / Bus: line PC (Porte Molitor) 17

18 photo: goa photo: goa Cité de Refuge Rue Cantagrel Paris The Salvation Army Refuge in Paris was Le Corbusier's first opportunity to create accommodation for the urban poor The compact site provided the chance for a radical approach both to bringing in light and space and to laying out the entrance halls to accommodate the Salvation Army's reception process The core of Le Corbusier's design was the dormitory slab with a sheer glass curtain wall Critical to the success of this south-facing glass wall was to have been a technologically ambitious system of double glazing and air conditioning ('respiration exacte') These were never built as intended, and the sheer skin of the wall was lost to Le Corbusier's trademark brises soleils later on in an attempt to prevent the inhabitants from overheating In the spirit of the free plan, Le Corbusier took the entrance hall components out of the dormitory block, constructing a geometric pathway through separate reception buildings outside (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa 1929, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Armée du Salut (Salvation Army) Telephone: Take the RER to Bibliothèque François Mitterand, and choose the Rue du Chevalaret exit Walk south along Rue du Chevalaret, and at the first junction turn backwards right up rue Cantagrel The Refuge is a few meters up on your right 18

19 photo: goa photo: goa Pavillon Suisse Boulevard Jourdan Paris Cité universitaire was founded in 1921 to provide accommodation and support for foreign students in Paris, with a number of residential pavilions endowed by different national communities The pavilion adheres to Le Corbusier's 'five points of architecture', but with a number of developments since the Villa Savoye The free façade and horizontal window have become a continuous glazed curtain wall, on the south side of the building (above) The pilotis have developed from thin columns to six massive reinforced concrete 'dog-bones' or 'thighs' with their characteristic figure-of-eight cross section to withstand winds While the client accepted the student rooms being raised in mid air, the public spaces were required to be on the ground The plan accommodates them in a separate block sitting on the earth, its curvaceous form contrasting with the simple slab of the student accommodation (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa 1930, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Committee of Swiss Universities & Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 19

20 photo: goa photo: goa Maison du Brésil Boulevard Jourdan 7L Paris This housing block at the Cité Universitaire complex in Paris was designed by Le Corbusier for Brazilian students and researchers 1953, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Brazilian Government photo: goa Monday - Friday: & / Saturday: & Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 20

21 photo: goa photo: goa Parc de la Villette Avenue Jean Jaurès Paris The former site of the slaughterhouse of La Villette was transformed into a public parc, designed on the principle of layered pathways and the well-kown folies (red dots on a grid) photo: goa 2000, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Bernard Tschumi s goa By underground: Porte de Pantin (Grande Halle): Line 5 (Bobigny - Place d'italie) Porte de la Villette: Line 7 (Villejuif-Louis Aragon / La Courneuve) More info at wwwratpfr By bus: Porte de Pantin (Grande Halle): line 75, 151, PC 2 and 3 Porte de la Villette (Cité des Sciences): 75, 139, 150, 152, PC2 and PC3, Station Porte de la villette 21

22 photo: goa photo: Nazar Leskiw Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir Connecting Quai François Mauriac and Quai de Bercy Paris The Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir (in iti ally known by the pro vi sio nal name of passerelle Bercy-Tolbiac) is a bridge so lely for pe de stri ans and cy clists across the Seine River in Paris This elegant connection between the Bibliotheque Nationale de and the Parc de Bercy was designed as a lens towards the river on two levels The bridge was constructed in its whole in advance and positioned from transportation boats onto its place It is the 37th bridge on the Seine to Paris It is lo ca ted bet ween the bridges of Pont de Bercy and Pont de Tolbiac and links up the 12th and 13th ar ron dis se ments of Paris Its nea rest Paris Metro sta tion is Quai de la Gare photo: Matt Ludbrook 2006 Feichtinger es City of Paris goa Metro: Line 14, Stop 'Bibliotheque François Mitterand' / RER: Line C, Stop 'Bibliotheque François Mitterand' 22

23 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Eiffel Tower Avenue Gustave Eiffel Paris For the Universal Exhibition of 1889, a date that marked the centenary of the French Revolution, the Journal Officiel launched a major competition to study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars The tower would have a square base, 125 metres on each side and 300 meters high The project proposal by entrepreneur Gustave Eiffel, engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier and architect Stephen Sauvestre was chosen out of a total of 107 The construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889 was Eiffel's crowning achievement His career as an entrepreneur would come to an end with the failure of the Panama Canal project From then on, he devoted his time to operating the Tower and to various experiments in air resistance, the observation of meteorology and especially the installation of a giant antenna for the earliest radio broadcasts Indeed, it is because of these experiments that the Eiffel Tower is still standing, since it was initially built to last 20 years photo: Bjorn Utpott Gustave Eiffel Bjorn_Utpott The Eiffel Tower is open every day all year long, - from 9:30am to 11:00pm, January 1 to June 17 and August 29 to December 31 from 9:00am to midnight, June 18 to August 28 During Easter weekend and the spring vacation the Tower will remain open until midnight Access to the top may be temporary closed due to unfavourable weather conditions or too many visitors Tickets to the Tower are sold until 9:30pm Tickets to the first and second floors will be sold until 10:00pm Contact client services: 33 (0) (call charges per minute) 23

24 Maison de Tristan Tzara Avenue Junot Paris The modern-style house was built in 1926 by Austrian architect Adolf Loos for the poet & writer Tristan Tzara founding father of Dadaism and his wife, the painter, Knitson The rigidly functionalist Maison Tristan Tzara, built in Montmartre, was designed following Tzara's specific requirements and decorated with samples of African art It was Loos' only major contribution in his Parisian years Project is not public! 1926 Adolf Loos Tristan Tzara cost photo: Costin Constantin 24

25 Railway Switching Box Duttweilerbrücke Zurich Switzerland This project was designed by Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, a Zurich based architecture office Their plan won the design competition in 1996 Construction took place from 1998 to 1999 photo: Project is not public! Gigon Guyer Architekten y_kanezuka This building is located at the the crosspoint of Duttweilerbrücke and Hohlstrasse 25

26 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Stadelhofen Station Stadelhoferstrasse 8001 Zurich Switzerland Stadelhofen Train Station, built in the early 1980s, is a major transportation junction for the Zurich area The original design consisted of a 300 metres long terminal building, running along a curved railway line, which itself runs along a hillside in the town's centre In 1990, Santiago Calatrava received the assignment to add a new third track to the existing train station In order to accomplish this, his design envolved excavating part of the hillside to add the track, only to restore the hillside in part on top of the new structure This way the new track has an open, naturally lit platform, while above ground space was created for walkways photo: Maarten Helle 1984 Santiago Calatrava HelleBeelden Depending on departure times Swiss Railways operates regional train services through Stadelhofen However, the station is only for regional lines, and is not the main station in Zurich You can reach it from the main station in about minutes by tram (No 11, going south) 26

27 photo: Michael Buschor photo: Michael Buschor Library of the Institute of Law Rämistrasse 76 CH-8001 Zurich Switzerland Library for the law faculty of the university of Zurich (Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut RWI) The old building from Hermann Fietz was built 1909 Calatrava received the assignment already in 1989 but it took another ten years until the construction started The exterior stayed pretty much untouched The whole intervention is more of a giant piece of wooden furniture placed in the atrium of the existing building The library has 5000 meters space for books and 500 working places The oval skylight has an integrated mechanical sun shade Santiago Calatrava University of Zurich Buschi photo: Michael Buschor Library: Mo - Fr: 8:00-21:00 Sa: 8:00-17:00 Info desk: Mo - Fr: 10:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00 train station 'Zurich Stadelhofen' (by Calatrava as well), tram 11 (to Auzelg) or tram 15 (Bucheggplatz) or 3 minutes walk to 'Bellevue' Take tram 9 (to Hirzenbach) or tram 5 (to Kirche Fluntern) to 'Kantonsschule', then 100m walk in the direction of the tram Classizistic building on the right with a bronze sculpture Entrance on the back 27

28 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh Aussersihl Community Centre Hohlstrasse Zurich Switzerland This project was won in competition in 1999 The site is a historic memorial park, on the western side of the city centre - a sensitive location The architects decided to break with convention for a community centre, and build vertically, rather than horizontally The initial proposal was for a six-storey, angular tower nestling by some trees on the eastern side of the site After completing the design, the budget was slashed, and the design team were sent back to the drawing board The revised scheme is still in the form of a tower, but only four storeys, including a basement and kidney-shaped in plan The structure is formed of lime brick walls and concrete floor slabs It is clad in timber boards, stained dark green, to help the building blend in with its surroundings By contrast, the interiors are painted in many different and bright colours The ground floor contains a café, which is popular with the locals out enjoying the park 2000 Services engineer Structural engineer EM2N Amstein+Walthert Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH City of Zurich Department of Social Welfare davidb photo: David Baugh The project is located in Backeranlage Park The number 8 tram stops here 28

29 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Brunnenhof Brunnenhofstrasse Zurich Switzerland Two lightly bent, elongated volumes of different heights restructure Buchegg Park The six-storey building on Hofwiesenstrasse is oriented towards the park as well as to the street It borders off the park from the street and protects it from the street noise The facades are formed by the protracting balconies and the concrete bands that wrap horizontally around the building Between them storey-height windows and alternately coloured glass panels form together with sliding anti-sun and screening glass panels an interplay of reflecting and matt, translucent and transparent coloured surfaces The colour concept was developed together with the artist Adrian Schiess Facing the street the glazing is dark blue and violet while facing the park the colour tones progress over large spaces from blue tones to green and then red The impression of the fluent, changing play of colours is enhanced by the varying positions of the sliding elements photo: Roderick Trompert Project is not public! 2007 Artist Project manager Structural engineer Landscape designer Gigon Guyer Architekten Adrian Schiess b+p baurealisation ag Dr Lüchinger + Meyer Bauing Hager Landschaftsarchitektur AG Stiftung Wohnungen für kinderreiche Familien Roderick From Zurich HB take tram 11 direction Auzelg to stop 'Radiostudio' 29

30 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Cubus Office Building Hardstrasse Zurich Switzerland Cubus Office Building is located next to the Prime Tower 2011 Gigon Guyer Architekten Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw 30

31 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Leutschenbach School Saatlenfussweg Zurich Switzerland The Leutschenbach School (Schulhaus Leutschenbach) is located in the north of Zurich Designed by architect Christian Kerez, aimed to offer a completely new dimension for learning, this building has brought all the function zones under one roof and one next to another: classrooms, meeting rooms, the cafeteria, the music room and even the gym hall To highlight the architectural creation, the gym hall is designed to be on the top floor instead of submerged under the earth The statics of the building is provided by a steel structure and an embedded slab which is supported on only six points These form the foundation for the large gym hall and ensure the building to be completely earthquakes resistant photo: Roderick Trompert Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Landscape designer Building physics consultant Project manager Roof & facade consultant General consultant Project manager Roof & facade consultant General consultant Services engineer Acoustics consultant Infrastructure consultant Infrastructure consultant Supplier Structural engineer Roof & facade consultant Building physics consultant Christian Kerez 4d AG Landschaftsarchitekten BSLA Bakus Bauphysik & Akustik GmbH BGS & Partner Architekten AG Dr Lüchinger + Meyer Bauing Dr Schwartz Consulting AG dsp Ingenieure & Planer AG SIA/USIC gkp Fassadentechnik AG Gysi Leoni Mader AG Hartmann Engineering GmbH Lienhard Martin MPA Engineering AG MTP Meili Tanner Partner AG Planbar AG SCE GmbH Sika Waldhauser Haustechnik AG Stadt Zürich Roderick From Oerlikon Bahnhof: Bus 63 / 94 to stop Saatlenstrasse or Bus 781 to stop Kehrichtverbrennung 31

32 photo: Leonardo Noguez photo: Leonardo Noguez Heidi Weber Museum Höschgasse Zurich Switzerland The Heidi Weber Museum reflects the harmonic unity of Le Corbusier's architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture designs and his writings which is unique and possibly the only one such existing structure in the world: a total work of art Located on the wooded shores of Lake Zurich, the last building designed by Le Corbusier, synthesizes Corbusier's genius Yet it marks a radical change of his achievement of using concrete and stone so poetically He to put in practice the construction system based on cubic units of 226 meters each side, created according to the Modulor measures He framed his final masterpiece in steel and glass and thus created a signpost for the future Le Corbusier made great use of prefabricated steel elements together with multi-coloured enamelled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he designed a 'free-floating' roof to keep the house protected from both the rain and the sun (text by Arch Leonardo Noguez) photo: Liesa Siegelmann Le Corbusier Mrs Heidi Weber JMMM From July to September on Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 5 pm for updates take Tram 2 along Seefeld Strasse to Hoeschgasse Walk along Hoeschgasse towards the lake (that's to the right if you're coming from the town center) The pavilion is at the end of the road on the left, within the Zürichhorn park 32

33 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Gigon Guyer Architekten Platform Office Building Maagplatz Zurich Switzerland Office building with seven storeys, completes the ensemble of the high-rise building 'Prime Tower' with its annex buildings 'Cubus' and 'Diagonal' ; internal courtyard as central entrance hall; restaurants, shops and auditorium on ground floor; the levels above provide office space for around 1000 staff photo: Nazar Leskiw 2011 Gigon Guyer Architekten Nazar 33