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1 HERZOG AND DE MEURON Projects 40 Created 06-Mar-10 By Luca Trabattoni, Lodi, Italy Forum Building Barcelona, Spain auditorium, culture, exposition space, square Schaulager International Convention Center (CCIB) Laban Dance Centre Tate Modern An English Square Folding Landscape Allianz Arena REHAB Basel 7 Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals Basel, Switzerland laboratorium, office Pfaffenholz sport centre 14 St Jakob Park 15 Helvetia Headquarters 16 Birds Nest National Stadium 17 Beijing, China olympic stadium 8 Central Signal Box 18 Basel, Switzerland 9 Subcentral Eléctrica 22@ 19 Barcelona, Spain Victor Rahola Aguadé energy centre 10 M H de Young Museum 20 San Francisco, United States museum 11 Basel, Switzerland clinic, health care Sankt Gallen, Switzerland office Munich, Germany football stadium 6 London, United Kingdom Vogt Landschaftarchitekten garden 13 Basel, Switzerland commercial space, football stadium, shopping centre, sport London, United Kingdom Vogt Landschaftarchitekten square 5 London, United Kingdom culture, museum Apartment building Saint-Louis, France sport London, United Kingdom education, culture 4 Barcelona, Spain Mateo Arquitectura congress centre, exposition space, meeting room Basel, Switzerland apartment, housing Basel, Switzerland archive, atelier, exposition space 3 Caixa Forum Madrid 21 Madrid, Spain 12 Ricola Europe Mulhouse 22 Mulhouse, France factory, industry 1

2 Ricola Storage Building Laufen, Switzerland industry, renovation, shed Sammlung Goetz Cottbus University Library Elsässertor II Prada Aoyama epicenter Rue des Suisses Hotel Astoria Luzern MoMa Museum of Modern Art 40 Bond Apartment and Commercial Building Herrnstrasse Munich, Germany housing, office Aargauer Kunsthaus Extension Elbphilharmonie 35 Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters 36 Euregio Office Building 37 Basel, Switzerland Richard Meier atelier, commercial space, office 28 Allschwilerstrasse Residential and Office Building 38 Basel, Switzerland housing, mixed-use development, office 29 Suva House 39 Basel, Switzerland housing, office Lincoln Road 40 Miami Beach, United States commercial space, garage, mixed-use development 31 New York, United States housing 27 New York, United States Yoshio Taniguchi museum Munich, Germany commercial space, culture, exposition space, horeca, leisure, passage, shopping centre Basel, Switzerland atelier, office Luzern, Switzerland congress centre, hotel 26 Paris, France housing Five Courtyards Hamburg, Germany culture, hotel, music theatre Tokyo, Japan shop, showroom 25 Basel, Switzerland commercial space, office, restaurant Aarau, Switzerland culture, exposition space, museum Cottbus, Germany education, library 24 Munich, Germany gallery 23 Haus Rudin 41 Leymen, France private house 32 VitraHaus 42 Weil am Rhein, Germany museum, shop, showroom 2

3 Forum Building Avinguda Diagonal Barcelona Spain The Forum Building is a triangular measuring 180 meters on each side and 25 meters in height, located within the triangle formed by the surrounding streets It is considered by some to be an icon of the "New Barcelona " However, local opinion on its aesthetic and functional merits is deeply divided It was the symbol of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures and the serious flaws that arose during its construction were widely covered in both the Spanish national and foreign press It has lain empty since the Forum and is beginning to show marked deterioration The building is structured around an auditorium with a capacity to hold 3,200 people The seating is below the Forum Plaza level The upper part is suspended from the triangular superstructure measuring 180 meters per side that covers the plaza, and rests on 17 pillars From it, the exhibit hall and the roof of the auditorium are suspended The exhibition hall covers nearly 5,000 m Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004 Naomi photo: Francisco Nogueira Metro: L4 - Stop "Maresme/Fórum" Bus: Lines NitBus: N6 Tramway: Line 1, Stop Trambesós: Fórum 3

4 Schaulager Ruchfeldstrasse 19 CH-4142 Basel Switzerland The Schaulager ('viewing warehouse') is neither museum nor traditional warehouse It keeps the Emanuel Hoffmann collection in optimal condition and is primarily accessible for specialists: conservators, curators, researchers etc The heavy outer wall is built up in layers and its outer surface scratched, exposing the pebbles excavated on site This material is not only a visual expression of weight and storage but also, as a result of its great inertia, an essential factor in the interior climate control On one side the box is somewhat indented, creating a forecourt, so that the entrance side is visible from great distance It appears to be guarded by a small building with a gabled roof The courtyard-like space radiates urbanism and publicness Schaulager is thus not simply an anonymous box on the urban periphery, but rather a place that is active and self-confident, expanding the public dimension of the city of Basel to the south, towards the new district of Dreispitz/Münchenstein Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation Laurenz Foundation MI_MOA The building is ONLY OPEN for the public during exhibitions! Check the Schaulager website for info Tue, Wed, Fri noon 6 pm Thu noon 7 pm Sat, Sun 10 am 5 pm By tram: Take tram No 11, bound for Aesch, at the Swiss Railway Station SBB to "Schaulager" stop (approx 10 min) 4

5 photo: Beat Marugg photo: Beat Marugg International Convention Center (CCIB) Avinguda Diagonal Barcelona Spain This multi-purpose cultural building includes a very large auditorium, a multi-functional performing space, exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, and a restaurant and foyer, in addition to technical services, loading docks, storage spaces, and car parking on two levels It was part of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona and has 45 translucent halls, spread over 3 floors, 2 mezzanines and a basement The CCIB and the neighboring building Forum Auditorium (by Swiss architects ), are linked to each other by a 20-meter-wide underground walkway Mateo 'explains': I have gone back to loving the precision of iron: normal, but monstrous, banal but not domestic, superhuman The mega structure is seen proudly in the East façade, opposite the elegant neighbouring triangle The bones are covered in the rest of the building photo: Beat Marugg Floor area/size m² Lighting designer Structural engineer Mateo Arquitectura Biosca & Botey Brufau, Obiol, Moya & Ass Ajuntament de Barcelona MI_MOA Metro: L4 yellow line - Stop "Maresme/Fórum" Bus: Lines NitBus: N6 Tramway: Line 1, Stop Trambesós: Fórum All these stops are located just a few minutes walking away from the CCIB 5

6 Laban Dance Centre Creekside SE 8 3DZ London United Kingdom The building is designed by award-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron Purpose-built for dance training, it is the largest and best equipped contemporary dance school in Europe The fully accessible building supports the needs of dance with specialist facilities By day the building's semi-translucent cladding allows traces of dance and movement to be visible through the walls By night, the building becomes a coloured beacon with light and movemnt spilling out illuminating the surrounding area Only certain sections (cafe, pilates studio and health suite) of the building are open to the public on a daily basis However, they offering weekly guided tours, for more information or to book a tour see the guided tours section or contact the External Relations team tours@labanorg Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Structural engineer Landscape designer Artist Theatre consultant Contractor Project manager Whitby Bird & Partners Vogt Landschaftarchitekten Michael Craig-Martin Carr & Angier Ballast Construction ARUP The Laban Centre Marieke_Mannens The cafe and other public areas of the building are open 900pm - 500pm Monday to Friday There are weekly tours of the whole building for more information see website Laban Please do not come to the building expecting to be able to see the whole building as the students are the main priority and Laban needs to keep the disruption to a minimum, thanks for you understanding The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) offers a frequent service to Cutty Sark station which is a few minutes walk from Laban The DLR joins to the London Underground at Monument / Bank (Central, Circle and District Lines), Shadwell (East London Line), Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line) and Stratford (Central Line) At Cutty Sark turn right out of the station and right again on to Creek Road Take the second left after the bridge, Creekside and Laban is a on your left (10 min walk) 6

7 photo: Nazar Leskiw Tate Modern Bankside Jetty SE1 9TG London United Kingdom The former Bankside power station consists of a huge turbine hall, a thirty-five m high and 152 m long entrance area with ramped access, as well as a display space for very large sculptural projects Parallel to it the boiler house, where now the galleries are housed Above the original roofline of the power station the then relatively little known Swiss architects added a two-storey glass penthouse; the lightbeam This houses a café-restaurant with stunning views of the river and the City, and the lower a membersroom with terraces on both sides of the building The chimney was capped by a coloured light feature designed by the artist Michael Craig-Martin, known as the Swiss Light The redevelopment of the redundant Bankside Power Station is a key to the regeneration of the area Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art Located in London, it is one of the family of 4 Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection 2000 Artist Michael Craig-Martin Tate boeboe Sunday Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Last admission into exhibitions 1715 (Friday and Saturday 2115) Ticket desks close at this time Tate Modern is located on the south bank of the River Thames at Bankside, near Blackfriars Bridge, opposite St Paul's Cathedral and next to the Globe Theatre By boat: Tate boat runs every forty minutes along the Thames between Tate Britain, the London Eye and Tate Modern By Underground: Southwark (Jubilee Line) and Blackfriars (District and Circle Lines) are the closest underground stations both of which are approximately ten minutes walk away Bus: RV1, 45, 63, 100, 381,

8 An English Square Bankside Jetty 1 SE1 9TG London United Kingdom With the change of use of the power station, a formerly inaccessible terrain was turned into a place that is now used by the public Zurich based Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten designed the outside space next to the Tate Modern (redesigned for reuse by ) They created a series of gardens with birch trees and a square: The birch trees create a spatial complexity of confinement and expansiveness and create the familiar picture of an alluvial forest At the same time, the birches are pioneer trees on urban and industrial vacant lots The groups of foreign trees, with their different coloured barks and irregular placement, contradict the usual connotation of this tree The design of the various types of gardens is part of a typical London tradition of urban gardens It is neither a public square nor a private garden but a hybrid: an English square Floor area/size m² Landscape architect Vogt Landschaftarchitekten Tate Gallery MI_MOA 24/7 Tate Modern is located on the south bank of the River Thames at Bankside, near Blackfriars Bridge, opposite St Paul's Cathedral and next to the Globe Theatre By boat: Tate boat runs every forty minutes along the Thames between Tate Britain, the London Eye and Tate Modern By Underground: Southwark (Jubilee Line) and Blackfriars (District and Circle Lines) are the closest underground stations both of which are approximately ten minutes walk away Bus: RV1, 45, 63, 100, 381,

9 Folding Landscape Creekside SE 8 3DZ London United Kingdom The Laban dance school is located in Deptford, an industrial district to the southwest of London The design of the garden in front of the building by reflects the interior of the building, which is characterized by ramps The way to the main entrance of the building leads in a slightly zigzag course through a hilly landscape created by bending and folding The sloping lawns and geometric hills form a lively landscape As in a natural landscape, chains of hills and dales form extremely dissimilar situations that can be variously used, for example the lawn steps as a performance room in the sense of an amphitheatre The modeling of the ground also made it possible to dispose of the existing, contaminated soil on the building side of the site at a reasonable cost The decision to refrain from planting trees was based on ecological considerations: a rare bird, the black redstart, would otherwise have been hunted by birds of prey lurking in the trees Floor area/size m² Landscape architect Vogt Landschaftarchitekten The Laban Centre MI_MOA The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) offers a frequent service to Cutty Sark station which is a few minutes walk from Laban The DLR joins to the London Underground at Monument / Bank (Central, Circle and District Lines), Shadwell (East London Line), Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line) and Stratford (Central Line) At Cutty Sark turn right out of the station and right again on to Creek Road Take the second left after the bridge, Creekside and Laban is a on your left (10 min walk) 9

10 photo: Allianz Arena photo: Allianz Arena Allianz Arena Werner-Heisenberg-Allee Munich Germany Built in a record time of 30 months, the Allianz Arena is one of the most modern and architecturally unique football stadiums in Europe It has not only captivated football fans, but many others with its breathtaking architecture and spectacular illuminated facade Swiss architects designed the building purely as football stadium The façade and roof is a composition of transparent and translucent ETFE laminate panels on a steel supporting structure Every panel has a transparent inner Those forming the facade have a translucent white outer, but the roof panels are completely transparent, allowing sunshine and light to fall onto the pitch The stadium is lighted in the colours of the two Munich clubs (FC Bayern München red colour and TSV 1860 blue) who have their home-base in this arena; white for national games Capacity of the Arena is 69000, unique 3-tier Arena in Germany with a great closeness to the pitch through a high inclination of the tiers photo: Allianz Arena Floor area/size m² Landscape designer Associate architect Vogt Landschaftarchitekten Allianz Arena / FC Bayern München / TSV 1860 München MI_MOA World of Brands (ArenaTours): Mon Sat , Sun + Public holidays Arena a la carte restaurant: daily Ticket office: Mon - Fri Matchdays: The stadium opens 35 hours before Bayern home games, 25 hours before TSV 1860 home games The World of Brands is closed, and guided tours do not operate, on matchdays and days featuring an event The stadium organizes English guided tours at 1 pm daily! see: All visitors reach the stadium itself via the Esplanade, a landscaped roof over the car parks Spectator routes emerge directly from the car parks, the bus parking and via a short transition route from the Fröttmaning underground station From Munich's main station or Munich East catch the S-Bahn to Marienplatz and change to subway line U6 10

11 photo: Marieke Mannens photo: Marieke Mannens REHAB Basel Im Burgfelderhof Basel Switzerland You expect clinics to look, well, clinical, modernist, austerely immaculate boxes, hygienically white inside and out REHAB Basel is a privately run rehabilitation clinic for patients with spinal-cord or brain injuries, they can stay here up to 18 months It appears residential and natural, though not with a funky, down-home earthiness, but crispy modern Here, oak, pine, larch, and ironwoods enclose and screen exterior walls, and a rectilinear plan brings daylight and landscape into its precincts through courtyards, grassy roofs, glazed walls, upper-level decks, and skylights The double and single rooms have daylight from above and an outside balcony The indoor swimming pool offers views into the sky from a pyramid-like dome above The floors are very wide, open giving wheelchair-bound patients a sense of autonomy Almost a place where anyone would like to live photo: Marieke Mannens Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Landscape architect Acoustics consultant August Künzel Martin Lienhard Rehab Basel AG Marieke_Mannens 11

12 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Viktor Ramos Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals Spitalstrasse Basel Switzerland The Hospital Pharmacie (in German: Institut für Spitalpharmazie) houses offices, labs and production The building is placed on the Rossetti-grounds, and presents itself to the street with a green monumental shield The building marks the entrance to the city, from the Spital-side The position of the elevator, stairs and entrance side for services was determined by the existing building from the 1960 s The façade is made with glass, covered by a Chromogenic colour print If you come close, you can see the structure of the print on the green, semi transparent building surface photo: Viktor Ramos Project is not public! Floor area/size m² City of Basel Marieke_Mannens Basel Tourist office offers the whole year guided tours of the most interesting examples of 20th century architecture in and around Basel as well as along the current axes of urban development Or visit the Swiss architecture museum in Basel Bus 30/33/36/38/603/604 to Frauenspital 12

13 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Apartment building Schutzenmattstrasse Basel Switzerland Sinuous cast-iron screens are used in the façade of this apartment building They resemble drain grilles This inventive use of unexpected but ordinary and readily available things is typical for the work of "Something mysterious is revealed in the normality of everyday life" photo: Marloes Faber Project is not public! 1993 unknown Marloes_Faber Close to the city centre There is a post office opposite the building 13

14 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Pfaffenholz sport centre Rue Saint Exupery Saint-Louis France The central sports hall in the Pfaffenholz centre by Herzog and de Meuron, lies partly underground The building is not more than apparent but deceptively simple composition of spatial volumes Great photo: Marloes Faber 1993 Bürgerspital Basel Marloes_Faber For 5 Francs you will get a nice guide tour (not allowed to go in there by yourself) We made a very long walk It must be easier to go there by bike, tram etc etc 14

15 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber St Jakob Park St Jakobs-Strasse Basel Switzerland St Jakob Park is the stadium where FC Basel play "Joggeli" as it is nicknamed, has a current capacity of 39'000 seats Switzerland's first multi-purpose stadium, was inaugurated in 2001 after just two and half years under construction Situated on the south-eastern edge of the city in extensive park and recreation grounds, the world-renowned Basel architects Herzog & De Meuron have constructed an "experience park", which, with its unique dimension, bold architecture and ultramodern infrastructure, provides the optimum setting for large-scale events It combines a football stadium with shops and restaurants photo: Monique van den Berg 2001 Basel United + City of Basel Marloes_Faber Basel United Stadion-Management AG, responsible for the professional marketing of the St Jakob Park, helps to plan and stage events professionally and provide guided tours of the St Jakob Park are offered (to book in advance) It is easy to get there by tram 15

16 photo: Stefan Tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila Helvetia Headquarters Dufourstrasse Sankt Gallen Switzerland Simple but yet complex, one of the best works by this Swiss practice can be found in St Gallen The recipe is simple: take a simple form of building and give it a nice skin Using a series of repetitive modules, the architects create a façade that decomposes the site, the context, the surroundings The different angle of each module creates this effect, which is emphasized by the beautiful "savage" garden that neighbours the buildings 2004 Helvetia Patria stefan_tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila you can visit the garden any time, and the entry halls, the rest of the building is forbidden to public access 16

17 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Birds Nest National Stadium National Stadium S Rd Beijing China The National Stadium is dubbed the "bird's nest" because of the appearance of its innovative grid formation The twig-like structural elements and the bowl-shaped roof are the masterpiece of the project, yet they posed great challenges for technicians and workers to make the building stand on its own feet The National Stadium will host the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, and athletics and football competitions After the Olympic Games, it will become a center for sports and cultural activities and other creative industries Its post-games use is under extensive planning A four-star hotel is to be built on the northern side of the stadium's stands When completed, it will accommodate spectators who want to experience the night elegance of the "Bird's Nest" photo: Wojtek Gurak Floor area/size m² People's Government of Beijing, Municipality of Beijing Naomi April - Oct: h, Nov - Mar: h The Olympic Stadium is situated at the Olympic Green, at the North end of the city within close proximity to the Beijing International Airport 17

18 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Central Signal Box Münchensteinerstrasse Basel Switzerland This is a railway utility building in Basel, near the Guterbahnhof Wolf called Signal Box and has an exterior cladding of copper strips that are twisted at certain places to admit daylight Herzog and De Meuron won the Pritzker prize in 2001, the jury explained: "The beginnings of most architects practices consists by necessity of small projects with budgets to match It is these early buildings with great constraints that test an architect s talent for original solutions to often ordinary and utilitarian commissions In the case of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the railroad signal box was such a project They transformed a nondescript structure in a railroad yard into a dramatic and artistic work of industrial architecture, captivating both by day and night" Project is not public! 1999 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB, Anlagen Management boeboe photo: Nazar Leskiw 18

19 photo: Matthijs van der Sluis photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Subcentral Eléctrica Carrer de Tánger Barcelona Spain In the newly built office area of in Barcelona, this was one of the first buildings to be completed This newly developed neighborhood is situated between the Torre Agbar by Jean Nouvel and the Forum area where the exposition building by is located The facade is made out of ochre-died concrete, covered with steel cables, on which plants grow in a pre-designed pattern photo: Matthijs van der Sluis Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Victor Rahola Aguadé MatthijsvanderSluis 19

20 photo: Ken McCown photo: Ryan Taube M H de Young Museum Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive 50 San Francisco California United States The M H de Young Museum sites atop the site of the old museum which was severely damaged in San Francisco earthquake of 1989 The building depicts this fracture not only in it's form, but also in the structure of the building itself, which can move almost a meter during an earthquake The copper skin, which covers the building entirely, is covered in dimples and perforations which change in colour throughout the day depending on the quality of sunlight rtaube photo: Ryan Taube Tuesday through Sunday, 9:30 am to 5:15 pm, Fridays until 8:45 pm The tower closes at 4:30 pm Tuesday through Sunday and 8 pm Fridays 20

21 photo: Carlos Dias photo: Carlos Dias Caixa Forum Madrid Paseo del Prado Madrid Spain ml Caixa Forum Madrid is a cultural centre, offering two floors of exhibition space, a restaurant, an auditorium and an excellent bookshop The structure is a conversion of a former power station and is located in the cultural heart of Madrid, near some of Spain's most important museums The visual image of the Forum is determined by the two façades facing the Paseo del Prado One of these is covered by green plants, creating a vertical garden The other façade consists of a Cor-ten steel addition, built on top of the existing brick complex Floor area/size m², Urban planner 'La Caixa' Foundation goa photo: Nazar Leskiw Every day from Located near Atocha metro station 21

22 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Ricola Europe Mulhouse Rue de l'ill Mulhouse France 9BB33A63B4A4B3 This is a packing and distribution building for Ricola Europe in Mulhouse-Brunstatt When the Swiss decided against joining the EU economic area in a referendum held in 1992, it became necessary for Ricola to set up a sales company in the EU and to build a hall for Ricola Europe in neighbouring France This hall was built in a few months in 1995 It is situated on the periphery of Mulhouse, on the west bank of the Rhine-Rhône Canal, facing Brunstatt It is a simple building, 60 m long, 30 m wide an 8 m high The roof projects outwards and slightly upwards for 8 m on each of the two long sides It creates large, protected areas, those facing into the yard being used for loading and unloading the trucks, and those facing a small park for rest periods Here, the roof is of a material which allows the light through, so that these areas are bathed in soft light (text from website Ricola) photo: Maarten Helle Project is not public! 1995 Ricola HelleBeelden 22

23 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff Ricola Storage Building Baselstrasse Laufen Switzerland 13FB7F610F47C6 This is a mechanized warehouse had to be built for herbs and herbal throat drops The structure appears to rest on ribs which can be seen protruding below the bottom-most of these layers They are attached to the slab which has been cast directly on the rocky ground forming the foundation of the warehouse Because of the open structure which is formed, the yellow colour of the thermal insulation can be detected between the panels The only exception to this is on the side exposed to the weather, where a silver foil offers additional protection against moisture The architects have given various reasons for the shape of the shell All of them have to do with the stacking of materials: planks piled to dry, or panels of cement, or even the shelves of the new hall In images like these, which they called upon when creating the design, the function and construction of the warehouse are rendered congruent in a complex fashion (text from website Ricola) photo: Evan Chakroff Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Ricola AG evanc 23

24 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff Sammlung Goetz Oberföhringer Straße Munich Germany The Gallery for a Private Collection of Modern Art, Goetz Collection in Munich, of 1992 is a free-standing volume that can be used as both a public and a private gallery The architectural conception for the building is derived from the collection of works that have been assembled, namely, art from the 1960s to the present Situated in a park like area of birches and conifers, the gallery appears as a simple flush-detailed form, yet upon closer inspection reveals itself as a complex study in composition (text from website wwwmomaorg) photo: Evan Chakroff 1992 evanc Goetz Collection Oberföhringer Straße 103 D Munich Tel Fax info@sammlung-goetzde Visitation is possible from during opening hours BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: Monday to Friday 2-6 pm Saturday 11 am - 4 pm Closed on sundays and bank holidays Take the Subway U4 to "Richard-Strauss-Straße" Change here for bus # 188 (direction Unterföhring, Fichtenstraße) to bus stop "Bürgerpark Oberföhring" Take the streetcar # 17 or # 18, or bus # 54 to "Herkomerplatz" Change here for bus # 188 (direction Unterföhring, Fichtenstraße) to bus stop "Bürgerpark Oberföhring" Individual timetable information:

25 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff Cottbus University Library karl-marx strasse Cottbus Germany An organic, amoeba-like form, it is not immediately obvious which is the front and which is the rear of the building Inside, too, the seven upper and two basement levels of the library are all different in design: only their external form stays the same But it is not only the design of the academic library - with its brightly coloured spiral staircase coiling upwards - which is unique; so too is its organisational form The Information, Communication and Media Center (ICMC) at Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus creates close proximity between areas which other universities have traditionally kept apart - in both physical and institutional terms Behind the milky glass façade, imprinted with letters from many alphabets, the library, multimedia centre, computer centre and data processing unit all work hand in hand (text from the Goethe Institut website) photo: Evan Chakroff Floor area/size m² evanc 25

26 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Nazar Leskiw Elsässertor II Centralbahnstrasse Basel Switzerland This commercial and office building next to Basel's main train station sits between the train tracks and the Centralbahnstrasse, a major thoroughfare The façades along the building's length (facing the street and the tracks) consist of floor-height glass panels tilted at various angles, giving off a fractured reflection of the surrounding historic context The shorter sides of the building are indented to allow for open public space These façades are a double-skin, with the outer layer of glass screen-printed with a colored dot pattern (red on one side, blue on the other) This gives a soft colored glow to the exterior, but (unlike tinted glass) allows clear daylight into the office interior 2005 evanc photo: Nazar Leskiw 26

27 photo: Olivier van den Hoven photo: Yann Martin Prada Aoyama epicenter Minami-Aoyama Tokyo Japan Haute couture and star architecture have grown to understand each other rather well in the recent years Major fashion brands distinguish themselves by inviting world leading architects to indulge themselves in the design of flagshipstores and extravagant showrooms The highest density worldwide of such state of the art showpieces can arguably be found on and around Tokyo's Omotesando One of the most impressive contributions to this phenomenon is the Prada 'epicenter' This 33 meter high building has a façade like a membrane which is built out of wedge shaped elements that frame flat, convex and concave windows These element also form the outer structure of the building Closed horizontal bracings not only make the frame rigid, but also house the more private dressing rooms within this transparent building Everything about the building tells us that money was not an issue But perhaps the most costly design choice of all was to leave a large part of the expensive plot un-built photo: Olivier van den Hoven Floor area/size m² Lighting designer Associate architect ARUP Takenaka Corporation Prada Japan Co Ltd olivier_van_den_hoven opened daily from 11am till 8pm (also on Sundays) the Omotesando metrostation is on the Ginza line, the Chiyoda line and the Hanzoumon line Take exit A3 and walk into the street called Minami-Aoyama after a short walk you get to the Prada epicenter 27

28 photo: Piotr Krajewski Rue des Suisses Rue des Suisses Paris France 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 pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 17/19 Rue des Suisses/Rue Jonquoy, 14th 28

29 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Hotel Astoria Luzern Pilatusstrasse Luzern Switzerland This extension to the existing hotel was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and hosts 12 light-flooded conference rooms with state of the art infrastructure, as well as 90 new and spacious hotel rooms which are especially desingned for global nomads (text from website hotel) 2007 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 29

30 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez MoMa Museum of Modern Art West 53 Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues 11 New York New York United States Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world Japanese architect Taniguchi won a competition in 1997 to redesign the MoMa, beating out ten other internationally renowned architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron The MoMA commission was his first work outside Japan Taniguchi's beautiful and bold design reflects the unique vitality of midtown Manhattan and sensitively draws upon and transforms the language of modernism Highlights include larger, more flexible, sky-lit galleries for contemporary art; architecturally distinctive galleries for masterpieces of modern art; and prominent and more comprehensive areas for study, research, and educational endeavors Yoshio Taniguchi MoMa Museu of Modern Art asanchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Saturday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Sunday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Monday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Tuesday closed Wednesday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Thursday 10:30 am 5:30 pm Friday 10:30 am 8:00 pm Closed Thanksgiving Day Closed Christmas Day tel: (212) Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to Streets/Rockefeller Center Bus: M1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53 Street 30

31 photo: Thom Mckenzie photo: Thom Mckenzie 40 Bond Bond Street 40 New York New York United States This luxury apartment building on 40 Bond Street in New York, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a sparkling reinterpretation of the traditional cast iron and brick loft buildings of the surrounding area The 11-storey building contains 27 luxury apartments and 5 townhouses, creating a new typology of apartments which combine housing with the services and amenities of a 5-star hotel The façade is constructed of concrete wrapped in blackened copper and luminescent curved glass The materials of the façade have been treated in numerous ways which create an ornamental ground floor and shimmering upper floors that respond to changes in light At street level the private entrances to the townhouses are protected by a large cast aluminium graffiti-inspired gate The building fits comfortably into its context by reinterpreting the typical Noho loft buildings and their materiality whilst standing out through the interesting and unique use of new materials and manufacturing processes Project is not public! 2007 Ian Schrager thom photo: Thom Mckenzie Subway: Take the 6 Line to Bleeker St or the B,D,F, V Lines to Broadway-Lafayette 31

32 Apartment and Commercial Building Herrnstrasse Herrnstraße Munich Germany The 'Wohn- und Geschäftshaus am Herrnstrasse' in the old centre has a strong interaction between opening and closing Every second element in the floor-to-ceiling glazing is a sliding door The anthracite-brown galvanized window frames give the inner layout a maximum flexibility - and together with the wave-shaped sunscreens, the building has an ever changing appearance according to the weather On the roof top an intimate wooden penthouse is placed, with large windowsills, made out of oak wood The underground car park can be reached by an auto lift Project is not public! 2000 Naomi The building is located in the city centre, in between Isartor and Marienplatz, near the Parkhaus at the tourist attraction Hofbräuhaus 32

33 Five Courtyards Theatinerstrasse Munich Germany In the 20th century this area used to be Munich's central banking district As the various banks merged into one it was suddenly found that the entire area belonged to one entity So in 1998 the HypoVereinsbank decided to move their offices elsewhere and transform the remaining buildings into a modern center for shopping, restaurants & cafes, art galleries (among which the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung), office space, and residential apartments and public art This network of passages and inner courtyards is an absolute pleasure to stroll through The Fünf Höfe is literally an area of five connected courtyards Every section has its own character In one area there are giant ivies over 10 meters long - hanging from the ceiling Another courtyard is actually a hortus conclusus Many other designers contributed to the gesamtkunstwerk Floor area/size m² Main designer, Landscape architect Burger + Tischer Landschaftsarchitekten Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht Ivano Gianola Naomi The Fünf Höfe is located in the very heart of the city, just a few hundred meters from Marienplatz The Fünf Höfe is located between Theatinerstraße, Salvatorstraße, Maffeistraße, and Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße The five courtyards are called Amirahof, Maffeihof, Perusahof, Portiahof, and Viscadihof 33

34 photo: Filip Landa photo: Filip Landa Aargauer Kunsthaus Extension Aargauerplatz Aarau Switzerland The Aargauer Kunsthaus, originally built in 1959, became increasingly unable to cope with the constant expansion of the collection and the dynamism of the exhibition programme After several years of planning, therefore, a unique extension designed by internationally renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron and the artist Rémy Zaugg was opened in 2003 The building represents a harmonious blend of old and new, a mixture of park and city, resulting from a careful analysis of the urban surroundings While the entrance area and foyer, with the two winding staircases, make a spectacular, open and inviting impact, the architecture of the exhibition rooms recedes into the background, so to speak The Aargauer Kunsthaus has a total of 3000 square metres of exhibition space (twice as much as before the extension) at its disposal in bright spacious rooms (text fom project's website) photo: Filip Landa Floor area/size m² Main designer,, Interior architect, Urban planner Artist Technical engineer Filipoid Rémy Zaugg Ove Arup Baudepartement des Kantons Aargau Tuesday - Sunday: / Thursday: / Monday: closed 34

35 photo: Thies Raetzke photo: Maxim Schulz Elbphilharmonie Platz der Deutschen Einheit Hamburg Germany On the banks of the river Elbe in Hamburg s HafenCity has arised Hamburg s new cultural landmark: the Elbphilharmonie The interplay between the archaic appearance of the former warehouse known as the Kaispeicher A and the bold curve of the dazzling glass corpus is the architectural calling card of the Elbphilharmonie The building complex will, in addition to three concert halls, encompass a hotel, 45 private apartments, and the publicly accessible Plaza, where old and new conjoin in an exciting synthesis and the visitors are treated to a unique 360 panoramic view of the city from a height of 37 m The centrepiece of the Elbphilharmonie is also one of the most exciting structural challenges in Europe at the moment: A world-class concert hall at a height of 50 m with seating for 2,100, which is decoupled from the rest of the building for soundproofing reasons The Elbphilharmonie is the perfect symbiosis of architecture and music at a unique site within the historic city port photo: Maxim Schulz Floor area/size m² Contractor Adamanta Grundstücks-Vermietungsgesellschaf t Hochtief Solutions AG Nagata Acoustics Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany; represented by ReGe Hamburg Project-Realisierungsgesellschaft Contractor Acoustics consultant MI_MOA By underground, bus or ferry: Underground line U3: Baumwall, Underground line U4: Überseequartier, Bus 111: Am Kaiserkai (Elbphilharmonie), Bus 6: Auf dem Sande, Ferry 72 (from Landungsbrücken pier): Elbphilharmonie By car: There is limited parking available in the Elbphilharmonie and the HafenCity Speicherstadt multistorey car park: Am Sandtorkai 6, Überseequartier underground car park: Überseeallee 3, Elbphilharmonie multistorey car park: Platz der Deutschen Einheit (accepts cash only) 35

36 photo: Marco de Trizio photo: Marco de Trizio Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters Rheinschanze Basel Switzerland The office headquarters of Swiss architectural firm Herzog and De Meuron are located in Basel The complex is composed of various buildings, one of them a six-storey, glass volume looking towards the Rhine river An interesting detail is the original entrance: a small, simple, wooden door, typical of Basel Public access unknown! 2009 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco de Trizio 36

37 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw Euregio Office Building Viaduktstrasse Basel Switzerland This is the first Richard Meier building in Switzerland, and it is cladded in white aluminium sheeting The white walls, combined with the grey granite for the floor, create an harmonious space for the offices The building is located near the SBB train station, in front of 's new offices 'Elsassertor II' Project is not public! photo: Marco De Trizio Floor area/size m² Richard Meier Marco_De_Trizio 37

38 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Allschwilerstrasse Residential and Office Building Allschwilerstrasse Basel Switzerland This is the first large building in Basel by The rectangular lot is slightly curved along its length, so the main façade follows this curve The building is located in an upscale residential area in Basel, not too far from the city centre Project is not public! 1988 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 38

39 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw Suva House St Jakobs-Strasse Basel Switzerland This building was originally built in 1950 and was designed for offices Around 1990, integrated the building with a new addition, designed for residential use Both structures were encased in a glass skin on the street façades Project is not public! 1993 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw 39

40 photo: Kevin Guyer 1111 Lincoln Road Lincoln Road 1111 Miami Beach Florida United States This project, due to open in early 2010, is a Herzog and De Meuron-designed mixed-use building 1111 Lincoln Road will be a jutting, strutting building, a study in form and structure All muscle without clothing, according to Jacques Herzog It will reinterpret the essence of Tropical Modernism-crisp structures and ocean-liner planes with an original, modern twist Angular exterior cutouts will allow natural light and the Miami landscape within, infusing the 13 retail spaces, 4 restaurant spaces, 4 residential units and parking garage with a dynamic energy Car access will curve through the center cavity and panoramic layouts will display retail units and spectacular city views Located on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach's premier pedestrian promenade, the building will offer an entirely new context for retail, residential, dining and parking experiences (text from project's website) photo: Kevin Guyer 2010 Kevin_Guyer 24/7 40

41 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Haus Rudin Off Rue du Waldeck Leymen France With a simple volume and a gabled roof, Herzog & de Meuron have overdrawn the situation to a certain extent The type corresponds to what is generally understood to be a 'house', yet the building is nevertheless different The exterior form could be described as the prototype of a house, as the architects themselves claim, yet it also plays with a children's drawing On the other hand, it evokes the impression of a view of a monolithic block, albeit a raised one, floating above the ground The cantilevered floors, which project from the outside of the building, appear like a presentation tableau, raising the house while distancing it from its context The building also produces the impression of being a compact volume because roof overhangs are missing In stark contrast to the grey exterior, there are soft colours inside and the lapidary spatial concept is countered by the unusual access from below and the high space above the stairs photo: Jeroen Meijer Project is not public! 1998 Hanspeter Rudin jpmm Leymen is a small French rural village, south-east of Basel on the D23 It is just on the other side of the border from Biel-Benken There is good public transport (tramway) from Basel 41

42 photo: Iwan Baan photo: Iwan Baan VitraHaus Charles-Eames-Strasse Weil am Rhein Germany A new building has been added to the Vitra Campus The VitraHaus lies in close proximity to the Swiss border and the furniture manufacture's Basel headquarters Here the Vitra Home Collection is shown The furnishings and objects are arranged in a variety of settings for both living and working: classics by Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton are combined with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others With the VitraHaus, there is a sense of "homecoming" not only with regard to the architects, but also in the building concept Herzog & de Meuron make reference to the archetypal form of the gabled house, which is found in residential structures around the globe They have stretched this basic form and combined a series of "houses" in an intersecting stack photo: Iwan Baan Supplier Sto Isoned Vitra Verwaltungs GmbH, Weil am Rhein, Germany MI_MOA The VitraHaus is open Monday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm Vitra Design Museum offers guided architectural tours of about 2 hours on the Vitra Campus Daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm Public transport: From Claraplatz or Badischer Bahnhof Basel, take bus 55 From EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, take bus 50 to the Basel SBB Railway Station, tram 2 to Badischer Bahnhof Basel, bus 55From the train station in Weil am Rhein, it is about a 15 min walk to the museum By car: From Germany and Switzerland, take the A5 motorway, exit at Weil am Rhein, turn left, follow the signs for Vitra Design Museum From France, go to the Palmrain (D) border crossing, take E