Tag Switzerland

13-01-2012

RE CYCLE Strategies for architecture, the city and the planet

Drawings, models, photographs, videos and objects represent recycling as a creative strategy in the exhibition now underway at MAXXI in Rome.

21-10-2011

Pioneering natural swimming pool design for Switzerland

11-01-2011

Barn conversion project in Switzerland

Clavienrossier’s plan to renovate an old home in the Swiss Alps reveals how much this building had been denied an identity of its own: its structure of local stone was concealed under several layers of plaster.

31-12-2010

SAOTA – Architecture of textures and materials on Lake Geneva

Built by the South African studio SAOTA on the shores of Lake Geneva, the building has been described by one of the architects as an expression of an emerging African aesthetic because of its play of textures, materials and how they are connected with the world outside.