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B29 creates "James Bond super garage" in Switzerland for a royal client
Two giant lifts are concealed in the base of this garage in Switzerland, providing access to a secret underground space where a member of a royal family stores vintage cars and motorcycles (+...
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Raw concrete contrasts with 19th-century details at Le Gazouillis kindergarten
Swiss architects Omar Trinca and Guillaume Vallotton have added a concrete extension to a 19th-century villa in Geneva, creating more space for the kindergarten that now occupies it (+ slideshow). Le...
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Faceted home in the Swiss Alps by JM Architecture is covered in dark grey tiles
Mottled grey tiles envelop this angular house in the Swiss Alps, which was designed by Milanese firm JM Architecture to look "like a stone in the landscape" (+ slideshow). The jagged form and colouring...
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Sculptural mirrors frame spaces in Zurich barbershop by Wülser Bechtel...
Wülser Bechtel Architekten has completed a male hair groomers in Zurich featuring a pair of sculptural mirrors and a floor that reveals traces of the building's history (+ slideshow). Located on the...
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Aurélie Monet Kasisi adds wooden walls with built-in storage to family home...
Wooden walls integrate bookshelves, doorways, windows and a foldaway desk inside this family house in Geneva that has been renovated by local architect Aurélie Monet Kasisi (+ slideshow). The clients...
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Christ & Gantenbein adds raw concrete extension to National Museum Zurich
Christ & Gantenbein has unveiled its new wing for the National Museum Zurich – an angular concrete edifice conceived by the Swiss architects as a robust and spacious "museum factory" (+ slideshow)....
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Rolf Sachs suspends chunk of rock inside Saltz restaurant
A wall of salt, railway clocks and a rock hung from red climbing ropes all feature in artist Rolf Sachs' Swiss-influenced restaurant at Zürich's The Dolder Grand hotel (+ slideshow). The Saltz...
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SOM builds new Geneva headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
Architecture firm SOM has completed a major new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring an innovative facade of glass triangles and a huge central courtyard (+...
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Dost converts 1960s restaurant into heart clinic with cork cubicles
Swiss studio Dost has transformed a 1960s restaurant into a heart treatment centre in Zurich, featuring cork-lined cubicles and waiting rooms (+ slideshow). Dost reorganised the existing rooms and...
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Christ & Gantenbein completes new monochrome building for Kunstmuseum Basel
Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein has added a new gallery building to the Kunstmuseum Basel, featuring a graduated grey-brick facade and a monumental marble staircase (+ slideshow). Opening to the...
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Christian Kerez creates cavernous cloud to offer "a pure encounter with...
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: architect Christian Kerez has built an inhabitable structure inside Switzerland's Biennale pavilion, featuring a cloud-like exterior and a cavernous interior (+...
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Jean Prouvé's demountable office rescued from swingers' club fate
Design Miami/Basel 2016: a demountable office by French Modernist designer Jean Prouvé, which was used as a swingers' club until recently, has been restored for display at this year's Design...
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The top six installations and exhibitions to see at Design Miami/Basel 2016
Design Miami/Basel 2016: this year's Design Miami/Basel fair opens today in the Swiss city, where a six-tonne stone meditation space, a modular armadillo and designs by Zaha Hadid are among the...
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Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
A year after transforming an old house into a gallery at the foot of the Swiss Alps, architect Matteo Inches has extended the building with a new concrete and granite gallery (+ slideshow). Studio...
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Freiluft uses concrete "tree" to form rooms within Swiss barn conversion
Swiss practice Freiluft has inserted a branching concrete structure inside an old barn in Switzerland's Emmental valley, as part of its conversion into a pair of apartments. The Bern-based studio led...
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Nestlé's first factory transformed into interactive exhibition space
Dutch design agency Tinker Imagineers has created a €45-million exhibition area for Nestlé on the grounds of the food giant's first factory in Vevey, Switzerland (+ slideshow). The family-orientated...
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Null Stern's hotel with no walls allows panoramic views of the Swiss Alps
Guests are invited to sleep under the stars in this open-air hotel, which is located 6,463 feet above sea level in the mountains of Graubünden (+ slideshow). The Swiss Alps room has no walls, roof or...
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Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
This proposal for a concrete chapel by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos is designed to reach up towards the sky from its site in the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). A large skylight set into the top of the angular...
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ETH Zurich students build floating wooden pavilion for Manifesta art biennale
Visitors to this year's Manifesta art biennale can watch films while enjoying a swim in this floating pavilion, built by students to float on Switzerland's Lake Zurich ( + slideshow). Entitled Pavillon...
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Barozzi Veiga adds gridded concrete extension to Bündner Kunstmuseum
This extension to a Swiss art museum by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga features gridded concrete facades and subterranean galleries (+ slideshow). Barcelona-based Barozzi Veiga – which was awarded the...
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