Article source: Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten
In 2015 the clients decided to build an underground extension and undertake a rearrangement of the house, whereby the building was divided into two independent apartments. The clients’ main apartment covered the ground and the first floor, orientated both towards the garden encompassed by the L-shaped building and the west-facing outdoor area adjoining the woods and supplemented with raised plant beds.
Education First brand-new Zurich office opened in January 2019, transforming the grand old stock exchange building — a fitting location in one of the world’s largest financial centres. EF offers products that give people the power and confidence to experience the world: a global team of creatives defining what the future of language, education, travel and cultural exchange looks and feels like.
Student Accommodation Science City ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Three building volumes smoothly interlock. They create a succession of diverse spatial sequences and form a rhythmic open space that is rich in variety and offers a high-quality place to spend time. The route layout becomes a key element and generates a interesting dynamism. On the ground floor, there are common rooms, a classroom for the ETH, a nursery school and supplementary rooms that facilitate the student accommodation. The standard floors are exclusively reserved for student living and conceived for shared flats. Each shared flat accommodates 6 to 10 people. In total, 63 flats with 485 rooms and 12 studios are provided.
The Kunsthaus Zürich, designed by the Swiss architect Karl Moser, was built between 1904 and 1910 and is situated on Heimplatz, a square in Zurich’s city centre. The existing museum is to be expanded with a new building on the opposite side of the square, designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. The new extension will display a collection of classic modernism, the Bührle Collection, temporary exhibitions and a contemporary art collection starting from the 1960s. Together with the Schauspielhaus (theatre) on the eastern side of the square, the museum buildings will form a ‘gateway to the arts’, an urban entry to the education mile leading to the university buildings to the north.
Client: Einfache Gesellschaft Kunsthaus Erweiterung – EGKE
Partners: David Chipperfield, Christoph Felger (Design lead), Harald Müller
Project Architects: Hans Krause (Competition), Barbara Koller (2009 – 2017), Jan Parth (Site design supervision)
Project Team: Markus Bauer, Wolfgang Baumeister, Leander Bulst, Kristen Finke, Pavel Frank, Ludwig Jahn, Guido Kappius, Ahmad Moutad, Jan Philip Neuer, Mariska Rohde, Diana Schaffrannek, Eva-Maria Stadelmann, Marc Warrington, Robert Westphal
Competition Team: Ivan Dimitrov, Kristen Finke, Annette Flohrschütz, Pavel Frank, Gesche Gerber, Dalia Liksaite, Peter von Matuschka, Sebastian von Oppen, Mariska Rohde, Franziska Rusch, Lilli Scherner, Antonia Schlegel, Lani Tran Duc, Marc Warrington
Executive Architect: b + p baurealisation ag, Zurich
The hotel room without walls and roof, which caused international media fury worldwide during the summer of 2016 is set to re-open. Following lengthy negotiations with more than 20 tourism destinations in Switzerland, the Null Stern bed will be showcased in Appenzellerland against the silhouette of the Alpstein mountains. The special feature: this year, the new double room is a suite situated on the Göbsi summit (1,200 metres above sea level) in Gönten (AI), Switzerland. The Swiss conceptual artists Frank and Patrik Riklin and Daniel Charbonnier, co-founders of the brand “Null Stern – the only star is you”, will open the new version of their art installation on Friday, 9th June, 2017 in cooperation with both tourism organisations from Appenzellerland. The “Null Stern” suite with its safe and an analogue television is available for reservations. Negotiations for the next location in 2018 are already ongoing.
helsinkizurich has finished a new interior architecture project in Zurich Switzerland: Balboa Bar & Gym is the Flagship of a fitness Start-up that considers itself an urban movement. Balboa Bar & Gym has opened its doors to the public on May 28, 2016.
When you think of a call centre you probably picture a line of people seated in row upon row of desks in a featureless back room. But call centres are changing. In many companies, they are now the first point of contact with customers and are increasingly important in growing new business and ensuring customer satisfaction. High tech and fast paced, with multiple contact points from email and messaging systems to video and voice calls, they also require motivated and well-trained staff. As companies recognise their growing importance, the boiler room approach is disappearing and call centres are beginning to morph into a corporate centrepiece.
The Inter-Community School Zurich is a private international day school, which offers a comprehensive educational programme in English for children from ages of 3 to 18.
The new design forms a fresh and individual space that reflects ICS’s culture and values, and gives their staff and students a strong sense of belonging.
During the planning stage, the students along with the staff were greatly involved in the decision-making process by expressing their needs and favoured use of the space as well as their preferences in furniture, material and colour choices.
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This new building is an integral component of ‘Europaallee’, a currently emerging district adjacent to Zürich’s central train station. A plinth of retail programming anchors the project to its site, while its upper volumes consist of flexible office spaces that, due to their shallow depth and efficient façade grid, can be occupied by several individual companies or a larger singular tenant. These dual programs posed the challenge of creating two unique lighting and spatial requirements within this prominently sited building. The main entry has been positioned along the parallel ‘Europaaallee’, and opens onto the ground floor’s main retail and circulation spaces. From the ground floor, a central staircase complemented by two ramping escalators traverses and connects these areas. Foreseeing a possible conversion into future residential units, the building’s flexible structure was designed to allow for such a repurpose of its program. The resulting silhouette, and the alignment of its highest points with the trackside façades of the two adjacent plots, will ensure a powerful and unified building amid the area’s planned structures, further defining the distinguished context of the surrounding ‘Europaallee’.
The gastronomic pavilion at the ETH Hönggerberg has been conceived as a prism that serves as an architectural filter between the campus and the landscape and serves as a meeting point for teachers, visitors, employees and students, as well as a reception place for international guests. On the south side opening to the campus and on the north side allowing to enjoy a beautiful view over the wide landscape, the building has an open and flexible structure and its series of wood porticoes form an elegant hall.
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