(Philippe Germanier– flickr/creative commons license) Jean Nouvel designed the KKL Luzern (Kultur- und Kongresszentrum) and Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art Lucerne. The building is a convention center and concert hall, completed in 2000. The cantilevered roof wedges into a very …
Category: Switzerland
Gigon Guyer Architekten designed the Kirchner Museum Davos Schweiz, which is dedicated to the artwork of German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It was completed in 1992. The boxy grid design is typical of European modernism, but Gigon Guyer introduces …
(quinn.anya– flickr/creative commons license) Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), and structural engineer Manfred Grohmann designed the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne‘s Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne Switzerland. The EPFL center has a library of 500,000 pieces of scientific literature and …
(westher– flickr/creative commons license) Renzo Piano designed the Zentrum Paul Klee museum in Bern Switzerland, completed in 2005. It contains hundreds of art works by Bauhaus artist Paul Klee. Similarly to his California Academy of Sciences in San …
(Fatlum– flickr/creative commons license) Le Corbusier designed the Heidi Weber Pavilion, now a museum with art exhibits, completed in on the shores of Lake Zürich in Switzerland in 1965. Two roof structures shelter an arrangement of cubes of pre-fabricated colored …
(felipe camus– flickr/creative commons license) Pritzker Prize-winning Peter Zumthor and Annalisa Zumthor designed the Caplutta Sogn Benedetg in Sumvitg Switzerland, completed in 1988. The tear-dropped building flairs slightly at the base as it meets the concrete foundation. The wood shingle …
(j lord– flickr/creative commons license) The Basel viewing warehouse contains a museum collection of Emanuel Hoffmann’s art. It was completed in 2003. Herzog and De Meuron rethought the concept of warehouse in this project. As a primordial structure as honest …
(bpende– flickr/creative commons license) This recently completed office building was designed by Diener & Diener with Helmut Federle and Gerold Wiederin. A patchwork of colored glass on three layers each other seems to move and shift colors in the sun. …
Frank Gehry’s design for a showcase museum for the Vitra furniture museum was constructed in 1989. Gehry’s sculptural shapes abstract the Switzerland building tectonic, but the inside is very muted so that the exhibits can dominate. This was one of …
(Taxiarchos228– wikipedia/free art license license The Beyeler Foundation near Zürich opened in 1998. Designed by Renzo Piano, it shows restraint for an environmental scale and magnificent views. The warm red brick meets water and green landscaping. Above this, glazing and …