HDM.Projects. Pfaffenholz sport centre. Forum Building Barcelona, Spain Herzog and De Meuron auditorium, culture, exposition space, square.

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1 HDM Projects 26 Created 05-Sep-09 By Marta Skalska, Poznan, Poland Forum Building Barcelona, Spain auditorium, culture, exposition space, square Schaulager Novartis Campus Allianz Arena REHAB Basel Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals Novartis office General Trade School 7 Apartment building St Jakob Park 14 Bar Rouge 15 Media Tower 16 St Antonius Church 17 Basel, Karl Moser church 8 Helvetia Headquarters 18 Sankt Gallen, office 9 Musuem Tinguely 19 Basel, Mario Botta museum 10 Bank BIS 20 Basel, Mario Botta commercial space, office 11 Basel, Hermann Baur secondary school, sport Basel, Berrel Architekten information centre, kiosk Basel, Peter Märkli office 6 Basel, laboratorium, office 13 Basel, Morphing Systems bar, club Basel, clinic, health care 5 Munich, Germany football stadium Pfaffenholz sport centre Basel, commercial space, football stadium, shopping centre, sport London, United Kingdom culture, museum 4 Basel, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani urban plan Tate Modern Saint-Louis, France sport Basel, archive, atelier, exposition space 3 Central Signal Box 21 Basel, 12 Basel, apartment, housing Housing Schwarzpark 22 Basel, Miller & Maranta social housing 1

2 Ricola Europe Mulhouse Mulhouse, France factory, industry Ricola Storage Building Elsässertor II Rue des Suisses 26 Paris, France housing 24 Laufen, industry, renovation, shed 23 Hotel Astoria Luzern 27 Luzern, congress centre, hotel 25 Basel, commercial space, office, restaurant Aargauer Kunsthaus Extension 28 Aarau, culture, exposition space, museum 2

3 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst 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 m2 Project is public! 2004 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 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) 4

5 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 5

6 photo: Naomi Schiphorst 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 photo: Naomi Schiphorst Project is public! 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,

7 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 Project is public! 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 7

8 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 8

9 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 9

10 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 10

11 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 11

12 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Apartment building Schutzenmattstrasse Basel 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 12

13 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 Project is public! 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 13

14 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 14

15 photo: Marloes Faber Bar Rouge Messeplatz 10 CH-4058 Basel The original Bar Rouge was designed for the Expo02 in at the beach in Yverdon-les-Bains The bar stood here from May 2002 until October that same year Since then, the bar has slept until it was reused in the Messe-tower, at the 31th floor From this spot you will have amazing views over Basel Owwwand you definitely have to visit the toilet, could tell you more: it is a great experience! photo: Marloes Faber Project is public! 2006 Interior architect Morphing Systems Bar Rouge Marloes_Faber Monday Wednesday 17:00 01:00u Thursday 17:00 02:00u Friday and Saturday 17:00 04:00 Sunday closed Messeplatz is easy to find, most of the trams are heading to this place 15

16 photo: Berrel Architekten photo: Berrel Architekten Media Tower Brüglingerstrasse 19/ Basel This tower is part of the renovation of the St Jakob sports and event halls in Basel As object it provides an urbanist accent, functionally it is linked (underground) to the St Jakob halls The volume contains a kiosk, ticket counter, ATM and bus stop Eventually the air-conditioning plant for the halls will be installed here In addition, the tower functions as a meeting place and an information and advertising pillar A 5 x 27 metre LED display built into the north façade shows programmes, announcements and match results Project is public! 2005 Berrel Architekten Basel Building Department Kirsten_Hannema photo: Berrel Architekten St Jakobshalle can easily be reached by public transport Journey time from Basel main station ("Basel SBB") to St Jakob: approx 20 minutes From train station "Badischer Bahnhof": approx 15 minutes The stop "St Jakob" on the tram-line 14 and on the bus-line 36 is located right in front of the St Jakobshalle 16

17 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 17

18 photo: Stefan Tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila Helvetia Headquarters Dufourstrasse Sankt Gallen 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 Project is public! 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 18

19 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 19

20 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 20

21 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 21

22 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 22

23 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 23

24 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Evan Chakroff Ricola Storage Building Baselstrasse Laufen 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 24

25 photo: Evan Chakroff photo: Nazar Leskiw Elsässertor II Centralbahnstrasse Basel 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 Project is public! 2005 evanc photo: Nazar Leskiw 25

26 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 26

27 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Hotel Astoria Luzern Pilatusstrasse Luzern 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) Project is public! 2007 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 27

28 photo: Filip Landa photo: Filip Landa Aargauer Kunsthaus Extension Aargauerplatz Aarau 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 Project is public! 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 28