Tag Basel

05-10-2022

Exhibition against demolitions and waste in construction

At the S AM, Schweizer Architekturmuseum - Swiss Museum of Architecture in Basel, the exhibition entitled "Die Schweiz: Ein Abriss", curated by Countdown 2030 recently opened its doors to the public. A look into the Swiss demolition culture that generates more than 500 kg of construction waste per second and accounts for 84% of waste in Switzerland. Can we counteract this waste of energy embedded in the architectural heritage?

25-05-2022

Novartis Pavilion in Basel by AMDL CIRCLE

A new pavilion designed by architect Michele De Lucchi and his architecture firm, AMDL CIRCLE, is the first publicly accessible building on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland. The Novartis Pavilion, a multifunctional architecture created in collaboration with the Blaser Butscher Architekten AG firm, features a distinctive zero-energy media façade designed by iart and houses a permanent multimedia exhibition designed by ATELIER BRÜCKNER.

07-08-2020

Harry Gugger: conversion of Basel’s historic Silo Erlenmatt

Harry Gugger Studio’s conversion of Basel’s historic Silo Erlenmatt is the key element in a new masterplan for the dynamic Erlenmatt Ost district. Used for storing grain and cocoa beans in the twentieth century, the former silo now contains a hostel, a restaurant and gallery spaces.

16-05-2018

Garrigues Maurer: new crematorium for the Hörnli cemetery, Basel

The design by Bernhard Maurer and Frederic Garrigues won the competition for the new crematorium at the Hörnli cemetery, Basel. Rigorous geometry sculpted in concrete and with brick decoration fits appropriately into Switzerland’s largest cemetery.

05-03-2018

An exhibition and a book about the architecture of Bangladesh

The Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel hosts the world premiere of the exhibition “Bengal Stream. The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh” focusing entirely on Bangladeshi architecture.

06-09-2017

Museum of Communication in Bern, Kossmann.dejong

Dutch office Kossmann.

09-06-2017

Top offices and work spaces

Increasingly smaller multimedia and mobile work tools have changed our offices. Here are some of the most interesting projects recently featured in the pages of Floornature.

21-02-2017

PwC’s Basel offices are wellness centres

Swiss architectural studio Evolution Design has designed the new offices of insurance and consultancy giant PwC in Basel. This jewel of design is built on the basis of four pillars specifically intended to guarantee workers’ wellbeing: activity, attitude, rest and nutrition.

17-02-2017

Basel: innovative contemporary architecture and design

Basel, a city built in a loop of the Rhine, becomes a temporary museum during two annual international art and design events, Design Miami Basel and Art Basel, during which an infinite series of events and installations takes place in the city’s most beautiful modern buildings. Such as those built by Herzog & De Meuron, who say that a building’s surfaces should have something to do with what happens inside the building, and that the architect’s task is to give this relationship material form.