Tag Basel

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.