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1 Basel Projects 41 Created 06-Mar-16 By silvia lomi, Venice, Italy Messe Basel Basel, commercial space, showroom Musuem Tinguely Museum der Kulturen Schaulager General Trade School Railway Engine Depot Central Signal Box Housing Schwarzpark Novartis Campus 8 SBB Train Station Pedestrian Overpass 15 Südpark 16 Spitalstrasse 8 17 Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals 18 Basel, laboratorium, office 9 University Hospital Basel 19 Basel, Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten 10 Kinderspital Basel 20 Basel, Stump & Schibli Architekten hospital 11 St Jakob Park 21 Basel, commercial space, football stadium, shopping centre, sport 12 Basel, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani urban plan Novartis office Basel, Morger & Degelo office Basel, Miller & Maranta social housing 7 Basel, 14 Basel, Basel, industry 6 Basel, Hermann Baur secondary school, sport Novartis Campus - Forum 3 Basel, Cruz y Ortiz bridge, passage, train station Basel, archive, atelier, exposition space 5 Basel, museum Basel, Diener & Diener education, office Basel, Mario Botta museum 4 Bank BIS 22 Basel, Mario Botta commercial space, office 13 Basel, Peter Märkli office REHAB Basel 23 Basel, clinic, health care 1

2 St Antonius Church Basel, Karl Moser church Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters Beyeler museum Vitra Design Museum Vitra Fire Station Conference Pavilion Gas Station Vitra Dome 28 Vitrashop Factory Hall Suva House 35 The Picassohaus 36 Wohnhaus Müller 37 Volta Zentrum 38 Basel, Buchner Bründler commercial space, housing 29 Volkshaus Brasserie & Bar 39 Basel, bar, restaurant 30 Stucki Hotel 40 Basel, Diener & Diener hotel 31 Youth Hostel Basel 41 Basel, Buchner Bründler hotel 32 Weil am Rhein, Germany Thomas C Howard auditorium, exposition space, pavilion Basel, Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten atelier, housing Weil am Rhein, Germany Jean Prouvé gas station 27 Weil am Rhein, Germany Tadao Ando congress centre, meeting room, pavilion 34 Basel, Peter Märkli meeting room, office Weil am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid s exposition space, fire station 26 Weil am Rhein, Germany Gehry Partners Vitra Bus Stop Basel, housing, office Weil am Rhein, Germany museum, shop, showroom 25 Riehen, Renzo Piano museum VitraHaus Weil am Rhein, Germany Jasper Morrison bus station Basel, atelier, office 24 Volta West 42 Basel, Degelo Architekten housing, mixed-use development 33 Weil am Rhein, Germany Alvaro Siza Vieira factory St Jakob Turm 43 Basel, housing, office 2

3 Bar Zum Kuss 44 Basel, Christ & Gantenbein bar, chapel, monument 3

4 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Messe Basel Messeplatz Basel The new hall for the Messe Basel includes square meters of exhibition space that spreads across two windowless floors, each 8 meters high This large volume is clad into a shimmering facade of interwoven metal strips, with each of floors slightly offset The ground floor, enclosed in glass, is designed for public use and is shaped so as to form a "city lounge" - a covered plaza that opens to the sky through a large, mesmerizing oculus photo: Dirk Verwoerd Project is public! Floor area/size m², Urban planner Messe Basel DinaBM City lounge is part of the Messeplatz, always open Tram no1, 2, 6 4

5 photo: Maarten Thewissen photo: Ryan Taube Musuem Tinguely Grenzacherstrasse Basel Jean Tinguely ( ) grew up in Basel and belonged to the Parisian avant-garde in the 1950s and 60s He stimulated and revolutionized the "static" art world with his kinetic works The Museum's permanent collections present a selection of the artist's machine sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career The Museum also offers a varied and lively programme of temporary shows devoted to Tinguely's fellow artists and contemporaries - Bernhard Luginbühl, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein - and to his models such as Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, as well as to related subjects such as contemporary kinetic art photo: Ryan Taube Project is public! Floor area/size m² Mario Botta F Hoffman-La Roche, Basel rtaube Tuesday - Sunday Mondays closed Tel: +41 (0) every Sunday there are guided tours: 1130 h (no booking necessary, cost: admission ticket) Main Rail Station SBB: Tram no 2 to Wettsteinplatz, switch to Bus no 31 Badischer Bahnhof: Bus no 36 Highway: exit Basel Wettstein 5

6 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Museum der Kulturen Münsterplatz Basel Museum of Ethnology, located right in the heart of Basel's old town, has been renovated and extended so as to include new exhibition space on the top of an already existing building This addition is crowned by an impressive, irregularly folded, roof clad in dark green ceramic tiles (concave, convex and flat) Cantilevered from the rest of the building, the new structure provides support for specially devised plant holders that create a curtain of hanging greenery Access to the museum is through a courtyard that descends gently toward the reception area An open staircase leads to three refurbished exhibition floors and culminates in the column-free space of the new roof addition Project is public! Museum der Kulturen Basel Tim_Smits photo: Nazar Leskiw Tuesday - Sunday: h Monday: closed Tram Nr 2 ("Bahnhof SBB" or "Badischer Bahnhof") Halte "Kunstmuseum", then walk along Rittergasse and across Münsterplatz 6

7 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Schaulager Ruchfeldstrasse 19 CH-4142 Basel photo: Naomi Schiphorst 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) 7

8 photo: photo: Marloes Faber General Trade School Vogelsangstrasse Basel Four strikingly different structures are grouped around a courtyard The 1950's building houses the industrial trade school and the Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung (College of Art and Design) Also noteworthy are Hans Arps stele in the courtyard, and the stepped pyramid the steps form seats by Armin Hofmann Spectacular vaulted ceiling in the gym hall photo: Marloes Faber Project is not public! 1961 Hermann Baur Allgemeine Gewerbeschule und Schule für Gestaltung Marloes_Faber It's close to the railway station "Anschluss Basel-Bad Bahnhof" and quite near to the city centre and Messeplatz Take tram 2/6 and stop at the Gewerbeschule; or Bus 30 to Gewerbeschule 8

9 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Railway Engine Depot Walkeweg Basel Train depot and service workshops housed in a 240 m long concrete building Elongated light prisms placed rhythmically along the roof (covered with plants originally found along railway tracks) bring light into spacious working halls Includes administration wing with a restaurant on top floor Together with the nearby switching tower, this complex has improved greatly the urban quality of the industrial area in the south-east part of Basel photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is not public! 1995 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB DinaBM From Dreispitz tram/bus stop go down to Walkeweg, then take the first road on your left 9

10 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Central Signal Box Münchensteinerstrasse Basel 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 10

11 Housing Schwarzpark Gellertstrasse Basel This project contains a great generous public housing because of both their spatial and their material quality Most of them have four bedrooms in a compact container located on one end of an urban park The insertion of the building into the grounds of the park by means of a folded block reduces its visual impact It incorporates various measures that contribute to the saving of energy and sustainable consumption, this without giving up a design that allows for maximum enjoyment of the area photo: Ruedi Walti Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Miller & Maranta Zentralstelle für staatlichen Liegenschaftverkehr aplust 11

12 photo: Andreina Schoeberlein photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Novartis Campus Fabrikstrasse 4 CH-4002 Basel Novartis is aiming to transform the St Johann site - its headquarters in Basel - from an industrial complex to a place of innovation, knowledge and encounter The new Campus should offer Novartis employees and visitors an environment for intensive levels of communication and work, which is ultra-modern, very functional and aesthetically pleasing The master plan on which all these changes are based is by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani The individual special buildings are to be designed and also realized by invited architects like Peter Märkli, Diener & Diener and Japanese office SANAA Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, whom Novartis commissioned to produce an overall plan for the St Johann project, is an architect with a practice in Milan and a chair in urban development history at the ETH in Zurich photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Project is not public! 2000 Urban planner Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Novartis Schweiz MI_MOA The campus and offices of Novartis are not open to the public, its like a forbidden city for architecture lovers Maybe you could get in with a tour from the Basel ure Museum but don' t count on it you can find the development-map here: downloads/about-novartis/visitorsmappdf The area is situated next to the river, just before (or after) the Dreirosenbrucke Coming from France: Motorway A35/E60 direction Basel, after customs enter left into the tunnel and follow the signs to Basel St Johann From EuroAirport Basel take Airport Express Bus PTT 50 to Kannenfeldplatz Change to Tram 1 (direction Dreirosenbrücke) stop Novartis Campus Across the street you find the main entrance to the Novartis Campus From Bahnhof Basel, also take tram 1, same way 12

13 photo: Goran Potkonjak photo: Goran Potkonjak Novartis office Fabrikstrasse 6 CH-4002 Basel Before the advent of modern scientific methods in chemistry and pharmacology, it was the alchemists who endeavoured to discover remedies for human ailments The office building Peter Märkli architekten designed for pharmaceutical giant Novartis Pharma recalls alchemy's other enterprise, its attempts to turn base metals into gold: or rather, Märkli has succeeded in maintaining that illusion The anodised aluminium of the loadbearing façades has been coated with a champagne-coloured paint and the air ducts that run across the roof are encased in gold-coloured aluminium sandwich board While such non-designed service elements are often an eyesore, here they look like costly treasures photo: Goran Potkonjak Project is not public! 2006 Peter Märkli Novartis Pharma Kirsten_Hannema The campus and offices of Novartis are not open to the public, its like a forbidden city for architecture lovers Maybe you could get in with a tour from the Basel ure Museum but don't count on it The campus is situated next to the river, just before (or after) the Dreirosenbrucke Coming from France: Motorway A35/E60 direction Basel, after customs enter left into the tunnel and follow the signs to Basel St Johann From EuroAirport Basel take Airport Express Bus PTT 50 to Kannenfeldplatz Change to Tram 1 (direction Dreirosenbrücke) stop Novartis Campus Across the street you find the main entrance to the Novartis Campus From Bahnhof Basel, also take tram 1, same way 13

14 photo: Giovanni Bellinvia photo: Giovanni Bellinvia Novartis Campus - Forum 3 Fabrikstrasse 3 CH-4002 Basel Novartis Campus at Basel will be an international significant place of knowledge and innovation Roger Diener, Helmut Federle and Gerold Wiederin designed and realized the first building, the Forum 3 It is one of the aims of this project to foster communication, creativity and the commitment of the associates through an aesthetic and functional approach to the design of the working environment Both in the building interior and also in the outer spaces, a wide variety of working and meeting areas are being created-providing open, transparent, versatile and flexible spaces that offer plenty of scope for interaction and interdisciplinary teamwork Immensely large coloured glass panels dance almost weightlessly in several layers around the building, making it move, gleam and shimmer, responding to the light at particular times of day and in different weather conditions Inside are office landscapes whose solid elegance combines open-plan spaces with places of concentrated seclusion photo: Giovanni Bellinvia Project is not public! 2005 Main designer, Artist Diener & Diener Gerold Wiederin Helmut Federle Novartis archviews 14

15 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio SBB Train Station Pedestrian Overpass Centralbahnstrasse Basel This project was part of the redesigning and enlargement of Basel train station More than just a pedestrian overpass, it is an almost 200-metres long public space that connects the two sides of the city, across the rails Project is public! 2003 Associate architect Cruz y Ortiz Giraudi & Wettstein Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 15

16 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Tim Smits Südpark Güterstrasse 4053 Basel Südpark is located near the main Railway Station Basel SBB The total ground floor level is designed to accommodate shops (since August 2011 the Swiss Supermarket Coop is settled in 70% of the ground floor area) The upper floors are designed around the first floor's enclosed garden The lower part (4 floors) in the south-west side of the volume accommodates several office spaces The higher part (9 floors) at the north-east side of the volume accommodates 100 apartments for elderly people, an elderly home with 28 beds and an internal restaurant The inner yard is part of the elderly house The façade of the whole building exists of a silver broom texture The tetris like windows on the north, east and west façade make it hard to read the floor plan from the outside The south façade is a spread of different sizes of windows at apparent places photo: Nazar Leskiw Project is public! Floor area/size m² Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), Zürich Tim_Smits Coop Supermarket: Monday to Saturday 07:00-22:00 h Basel SBB, Exit Güterstrasse 16

17 photo: Mark Larmuseau Spitalstrasse 8 Spitalstrasse 8/ Basel Offices designed and built between 2003 and 2004 The overall glass façade has a distinct dented appearance Horizontal protruding bands of black aluminium cladding emphasizing the floor slabs add to the twisted feel of the façade, while the vertical perforated black elements act as natural ventilation in front of the slender opaque windows Public access unknown! 2004 Morger & Degelo ml_m photo: Mark Larmuseau it's opposite the main University Hospital (Spital in German) in Basel There are buses nearby 17

18 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Viktor Ramos Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals Spitalstrasse Basel 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 18

19 photo: M Spiluttini photo: M Spiluttini University Hospital Basel Spitalstrasse Basel The additional space, which is needed for a new surgery department and the Women's Clinic, is understood as a continuation of the existing building typology The new square structure is based on a large-scale concentric composition that allows flexible use of space The outpatient area of the Women's Clinic, the surgery department and the delivery rooms are variations of the same basic structure In the floor plans, new types of surgery and delivery departments are developed Through the choice of lighting from the facade and from the centre all the rooms receive natural light, despite their depth The exterior façade satisfies the complex requirements in relation to aesthetics, spatial and light quality, freedom from glare, protection of privacy, energy criteria and structural-physical criteria Harmony between the old and new façades is achieved by adopting the existing order of storeys, proportions, and load-bearing structure that is readable in the façade photo: M Spiluttini Project is public! Floor area/size m² Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten Kantonsspital Basel/ Hochbau und Planungsamt Basel-Stadt mec Public areas can be visited 19

20 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Kinderspital Basel Spitalstrasse Basel The new Children's Hospital draws attention because of its colourful façade that changes appearance depending on one's viewpoint This is possible because its glass panels are covered in layers of foil, which reflect light in different ways Punctuating the street façades are mesh-protected loggias that allow children to play "outside" All the patient rooms face a park-like courtyard; along the windows they have built-in benches that can be turned into beds for parents Hallways are wide and bright, their walls are covered in wood-like panels, tall slivers of back-lit photos depict scenes from Basel and include child-scaled figurines photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Stump & Schibli Architekten Universitäts-Kinderspital Beider Basel DinaBM Tram 11 to "Johanniterbrücke"; bus 30 to "Kinderspital UKBB" 20

21 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber St Jakob Park St Jakobs-Strasse Basel St Jakob Park is the stadium where FC Basel play "Joggeli" as it is nicknamed, has a current capacity of 39'000 seats '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 Project is public! 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 21

22 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Nazar Leskiw Bank BIS Aeschenplatz Basel This building sits on the edge of the downtown in Basel, about halfway between the train station and the river Botta's design for the UBS bank (now the BIS bank) is his largest north of the Alps The powerful half-circle design is used often in his projects as well as the alternating bands of light and dark stone It's presence dominates the Aeschenplatz, yet it's symmetry and curving facade fit perfectly into the site Project is public! 1994 Mario Botta rtaube photo: Ryan Taube from the Central train station, exit to the north and walk past the light rail trains Continue along Aeschengraben until you reach the Aeschenplatz 22

23 photo: Marieke Mannens photo: Marieke Mannens REHAB Basel Im Burgfelderhof Basel 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 23

24 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff St Antonius Church Kannenfeldstrasse Basel Karl Moser envisioned a structure that stood flush with the street's building line, with unpainted walls and large stained-glass windows that would fill the interior with light transformed into a maze of colour The church is built entirely of in-situ reinforced concrete and its plan is a simple rectangle of remarkable size: 60 metres by 22 metres; the height also being 22 metres The dimly lit, tunnel-like entrance area is a cleverly staged introit to the church's long, bright interior Eight remarkably slim concrete columns carry a barrel-vault over the nave and a flat roof over the aisles, both of them coffered on structural and acoustic grounds The choir is flat, closed off, and over-furnished; the mosaic cross put up later by Hans Stocker also seems out of scale The opposite side, with the soloists podium and mighty organ, has a grid of fine concrete ribs Project is public! Floor area/size m² Karl Moser evanc photo: Evan Chakroff Services take place saturdays at 1730 and sundays at 715 and 1000 You can take tram #3 to Burgfelderplatz or #1 and #3 to Kannenfeldplatz 24

25 photo: Marco de Trizio photo: Marco de Trizio Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters Rheinschanze Basel 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 25

26 photo: N Bräuning photo: Ryan Taube Beyeler museum Baselstrasse Riehen The elongated building covers the whole breadth of the narrow plot of ground situated between a busy main road and a protected area of farmland It combines two contrasting motifs: long, solid walls and a light, apparently floating glass roof All the external walls are clad with red porphyry from Patagonia (Argentina) The building is supported by four 127 metre-long parallel load-bearing walls placed at intervals of about seven metres The two end façades are made of glass and look out over the park On the road side, the museum is completed by a windowless wall that protects the building and on the inside A large glass roof lets daylight into the whole building Unlike conventional top lighting, this roof allows the zenithal daylight to filter into the building s interior in its natural state instead of homogenising it and making it diffuse and milky There are also three systems with artificial light sources that illuminate the rooms when there is insufficient light from outside photo: T Dix Project is public! Floor area/size m² Lighting designer Renzo Piano Arup Fondation Beyeler Marloes_Faber Museum daily 10 am to 6 pm, on Wednesdays 10 am to 8 pm New: The museum is open on all sundays and holidays The best way to reach the Fondation Beyeler is by tram no 6 (from city center and Badischer Bahnhof station), or directly by train from Basel SBB main station and Badischer Bahnhof, getting off at Riehen (train continues to Zell / Germany) From Riehen stop it is another 5 to 10 minutes walk The museum is located at the main road to the German boarder (to Lorrach) 26

27 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 Project is public! 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, 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

28 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Wojtek Gurak Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany The inception of the Vitra Design Museum dates back to the early 1980s With the aim of documenting the history of the Vitra company, Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum began collecting the furniture of designers who had influenced the company's development, such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, and Jean Prouvé The design museum houses temporary exhibitions on themes of furniture design, and Gehry's building makes a suitable host for them - in keeping with the theme, but - once inside supporting, not competing with, the exhibitions As well as Frank Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid are all represented with separate buildings on the grounds of Vitra, in a cross between an industrial plant and a model village photo: Dirk Verwoerd Project is public! Gehry Partners Vitra Design Museum boeboe Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm The number of participants is limited There is no advance registration for public tours Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 28

29 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Vitra Fire Station Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany Following a major fire in 1981, the company Vitra has pursued a conscious approach to its own architecture, starting with the commission awarded to the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw to build a new factory hall After completion of the first structure, he was assigned the task of developing a master plan for the Vitra grounds Now Vitra commissions a different architect for each building project, deliberately contrasting works of architecture confront one another and imbue the site with vitality and a distinctive identity The Fire Station is one of the highlights of the tour Long an icon of deconstructivist architecture, this was the first work ever to be realized by the master architect who is today entrusted with prestigious global commissions Constructed as a working firehouse within the Vitra furniture design and manufacturing complex, the building is now used by Vitra as a showplace for part of its permanent collection of chairs Project is public! 1994 Zaha Hadid s Vitra Design Museum Naomi photo: Wojtek Gurak Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Vitra offers guided architecture tours in numerous languages over the premises of the Vitra company's factory in Weil am Rhein, daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm Contact: info-weil@design-museumde or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 29

30 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Conference Pavilion Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany Vitra, the German furniture manufacturer, has been collecting buildings by a variety of architects on their factory site near Basel They organize tours over the premises The starting point for the tour is Gehry's sculptural-expressionistic museum building, completed in the first of the California architect's buildings to be realised in Europe The Conference Pavilion by Japan's Tadao Ando was also a European premiere The introverted structure is visually impressive with its formal restraint and reduction to a few materials Most of the building is situated under ground The austere and elegantly proportioned conference pavilion is a deliberate contrast to the flamboyance of Gehry's neighboring design museum Along with the museum and Conference Pavilion, the Fire Station by London-based Zaha Hadid is one of the highlights of the tour Project is public! 1993 Tadao Ando Vitra Design Museum boeboe photo: Wojtek Gurak Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm The number of participants is limited There is no advance registration for public tours Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 30

31 photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Gas Station Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany The station was designed to be portable so that the gas station placement could be modified This made it quite easy to ship it off to Vitra and rebuild it In 2003 Vitra incorporated it into their collection on the factory grounds near Basel Jean Prouvé (8 April March 1984) was a French architect and designer His main achievement was transferring the manufacturing technology from industry to the architecture, without losing the aesthetic qualities photo: Wojtek Gurak Project is public! 2003 Jean Prouvé Vitra Design Museum Naomi Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm There is no advance registration for public tours Groups can make reservation Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 31

32 photo: Timo Mecking photo: Timo Mecking Vitra Dome Charles-Eames-Strasse Weil am Rhein Germany The Charter-Sphere Dome, which was erected in 1954 in Detroit, has been transferred to the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in 2000 The Charter-Sphere dome is Thomas C Howard's signature design TC Howard started using the Charter-Sphere dome as the request became more demanding Charter-Spheres are easier to design and erect than the geodesic domes They are still abundantly seen around the world TC Howard designed most of the early geodesic domes that are thought to be Buckminster Fuller's The dome at the Vitra Campus is constructed as a lightweight structure with a membrane cover and is currently used as a space for events by the Vitra company photo: Wojtek Gurak Project is public! 1978 Thomas C Howard timo_mecking Monday through Sunday: / Wednesday: / Closed on December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the café have the same opening hours as the museum By public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Claraplatz or Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55 until the bus stop Vitra From the train station in Weil am Rhein it is a 15-minute walk to the museum 32

33 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Vitrashop Factory Hall Charles-Eames-Strasse 2 D Weil am Rhein Germany This single-storey factory hall for Vitra has a footprint of over square metres With its clinker-brick façade, granite base and 4 metre-high windows, the building resembles a minimalist sculpture Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Alvaro Siza Vieira Vitra GmbH Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 33

34 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Vitra Bus Stop Römerstraße Weil am Rhein Germany The creation of the Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry in 1989 was a turning point in the history of the Vitra project and completed the transformation from a purely industrial site to a meeting place for cultural and commercial activities Over the next few years, new construction projects dared to experiment with architectural forms A conscious decision was made to select architects who normally would not have designed buildings in the Basle area, the aim being to create a site that drew not on regional sources that are now recognised around the world, but designs that stamped their distinctive character on the site through their foreign influences Jasper Morrison, a leading figure of "New Simplicity" a movement that advocated a more modest and also more serious approach to design designed in addition to furniture and accessories a tram system for the city of Hanover, and this project for Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein: a pair of discreet stainless steel bus stop shelters photo: Jeroen Meijer Project is public! 2006 Jasper Morrison Vitra jpmm By public transport: from Basel main station take the bus to the Vitra campus; By car: autobahn E35, take the exit Weil am Rhein and drive in the direction of the Vitra Design Museum 34

35 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw Suva House St Jakobs-Strasse Basel 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 35

36 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw The Picassohaus Brunngässlein Basel The building site is prominently located on Picassoplatz This is a corner lot with, for the most part, six-story building in perimeter block development Distinctive buildings, among them the art museum and the Baloise Insurance Company's free-standing headquarters, are its next-door neighbours The proportioning of the building and the arrangement of each single part is based on a modular systemthe ground floor contains conference rooms and offices as well as access to the underground parking garage The upper floors are reached via a prominent staircase Location of and accessibility to service spaces are organized around a type of core, allowing entry from both sides Single-space offices as well as large open ones are thus possible The high spaces of the 'attic story' are used for conferences, employee's break, and offices The building's facade is rather elegant in dark gray steel photo: Nazar Leskiw Project is not public! Peter Märkli UBS Property Fund Roderick Tram 8 to Aeschenplatz, short walk from there 36

37 photo: M Spiluttini photo: M Spiluttini Wohnhaus Müller Frobenstrasse Basel Through an exterior load-bearing structure, an open floor plan is achieved; this generates a column-free space that in turn allows free partitioning Various dwelling types, from studio apartments to and 5 room apartments, to maisonettes, emerge from this configuration The deep structural layer fronting the street creates a semi-private space, which defines the building as a dwelling Facing the courtyard, each apartment has a generous balcony The concept of a dual architectural order comes from the observation of the horizon, which expresses the division between ground and sky This resulting dichotomy could also be applied to the architectural system Here, the horizon is expressed in the essentially structure - free middle level, a consequence of the five-storey building A two-storey beam carries the upper floors to the cross walls on either side photo: M Spiluttini Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Associate architect Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten Dr Lüchinger + Meyer Bauingenieure mec 37

38 photo: Dina Bonefacic Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic Mihaljek Volta Zentrum Vogesenplatz Basel A sculptural monolith with facades that respond to varying characteristics of its urban context, this building has become a new landmark of Basel Nord Constructed out of light, fair-faced concrete Volta Zentrum appears as a dynamic and polyvalent structure that includes commercial spaces as well as apartments grouped around two inner courtyards Facing the Vogesenplatz square, the Zentrum's facade slants upward as it opens to the public space dotted with sculptured concrete seats photo: Dina Bonefacic Mihaljek Project is public! Landscape designer Buchner Bründler Westpol Kanton Basel Stadt, Implenia DinaBM Commercial spaces are open to the public 38

39 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Volkshaus Brasserie & Bar Rebgasse Basel This is the first phase of a long-term renovation project of the 1925 "Volkshaus" building - in addition to the existing concert hall and beer garden, later on a hotel, a shop and a library are also to be reinstated In the renovation of the bar and the brasserie, H&dM have removed all the unnecessary interventions from the 1970s, thus bringing back the original architectural character All the new elements refer to the original - eg, oval windows or light fixtures, chairs and table tops Materials used include wood, leather and tin Wallpaper recreating 17th c Basel as depicted by M Merian cover the restroom walls thus alluding to the centuries-old history of the "Volkshaus" predecessors photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is public! Volkshaus Basel Immobilien DinaBM Tram 8 or 6 to Claraplatz 39

40 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Stucki Hotel Badenstrasse 1 CH-4019 Basel wwwwelcomegroupch/en/stuecki/hotel/ This hotel is part of the Stücki shopping mall and leisure center in Basel, opened in September 2009 The architecture, with its clean, straight lines, is a creation of Diener & Diener s The interiors, by the renowned Studio Hannes Wettstein, radiate perfect harmony The clients were thrilled by the warm colors and the spacious rooms flooded with natural light The 'floating' concept: a large desk, a legless sideboard, and subtle details create a feeling of vast openness and elegant comfort Project is public! Diener & Diener HelleBeelden photo: Maarten Helle 40

41 photo: Tim Smits photo: Tim Smits Youth Hostel Basel St Alban-Kirchrain Basel Buchner Bründler renovated in 2010 the Youth Hostel They cleaned out the building and brought back the industrial atmosphere of the former Silk factory it was before 1979 (concrete, oak wood, raw steel, ceramic tiles and glass) A wooden bridge along the building opens up the building towards the Sankt-Alban river and connects the existing red building with the new concrete building This concrete building houses at ground floor level a public terrace and at the upper floors the single and twin rooms, the group rooms are situated in the renovated building The clarity of the details, in the existing and even more in the new building arrest the attention If you stay in Basel, you have to book at least one night here Project is public! 2007 Contractor Buchner Bründler Schweizerische Stiftung für Sozialtourismus Hosteling International catarinasinde photo: Catarina Sinde reception is open 24/7 From Euro Airport Basel take the Airport shuttle bus no 50 It will take you to the Basel main station SBB in approximately 16 minutes From there follow directions as described from the train station SBB By public transport: 15 minutes' walk from the railway station via Aeschenplatz or on tram line No2 from the railway station to the 'Kunstmuseum' (Art Museum) stop Then 5 minutes' walk through the Alban suburb down Mühleberg towards the Rhine, past St Alban Church to the youth hostel 41

42 photo: Tim Smits Volta West Voltastrasse Basel The Volta West Building defines the final end of the Voltastrasse The building follows the rounded street and accentuate this curve especially in the two top floors The windows are set quiet rigid in a stringent raster In this raster the architects sprawled out different loggias The "Innenhof" functions as a nice city-garden Project is not public! photo: Tim Smits 2010 Structural engineer Degelo Architekten Jauslin & Stebler Ingenieure AG Tim_Smits Tram 11 (St-Louis Grenz), Halte Volta Platz Train station: Sankt Johann 42

43 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Maarten Helle St Jakob Turm Birsstrasse 320 CH-4052 Basel The landmark of the new St Jakob Park is naturally the St Jakob Tower Like a city gate, above all it represents a distinctive entrance to Basel from the motorway The tower is particularly noticeable because of its special shape, which appears different from each of the four points of the compass The crystalline glass body was created by the renowned architect s office Herzog & de Meuron The St Jakob Tower also houses 37 exclusive offices and business premises The roomhigh panoramic windows and recessed balconies are largely south-facing and offer fantastic views Project is not public! Floor area/size m² HelleBeelden photo: Maarten Helle 43

44 photo: Tim Smits Bar Zum Kuss Elisabethenstrasse Basel Situated in the West corner of the Park between the Basel railway station SBB and the city centre is one of the most beautiful bars of the city Not only the terrace, but also the small building is a visit worth The building with a sinister history, it is a former mortuary and chapel, is renovated by the Basler architects Christ & Gantenbein who won in 2001 a competition to breathe new life in the Park (In cooperation with Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten) In their winning project they proposed to transform the chapel into a bar, they brought literally new life in the park This was also the duty the manager is charged with from the city The entrance of the bar is oriented towards the city and opens into one space This space opens up towards the park trough a round window, in the competitionplans they have proposed to make 2 oval windows, to save money they rejected the second and built a round one This round window makes the bar also visible and attractive for the passer-by photo: Tim Smits Project is public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Landscape architect Structural engineer Christ & Gantenbein Vogt Landschaftarchitekten ZPF Ingenieure Kanton Basel-Stadt Tim_Smits Mo - Fr: 08:00-01:00 Sat: 10:00-02:00 Sun: 10:00-22:00 Basel SBB, then 2 minutes Walk North-west direction 44