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AZPML . SHARE

Wien Museum Neu . Vienna

AZPML . SHARE  . Wien Museum Neu . Vienna (1)

AZPML . SHARE architects . renders: © SBDA

We envision the museum as a place for encounter, as a continuous public space that brings together exhibition spaces, lecture rooms, reading areas and coffee shops. Inspired on the Viennese coffees, the museum will not only contain the history and art of the city, but will also revive the atmosphere of the Viennese coffee houses. The museum has been designed as a place to think, observe, meditate and interact in spontaneous setting. We have devised the interior of the museum and its surroundings as spaces where the everyday social practices that took place in the Viennese cafes will be reenacted. The square in front of the museum and the plaza in front of the Karlskirche will be connected through an interior public bridge leading to the mean atrium. From this sequence of public spaces, exhibitions, public talks, reading areas, museum shops and cafes will be accessed. Continue reading AZPML . SHARE

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E2A

House B . Zurich

E2A . House B . Zurich  (1)

E2A Eckert Eckert. photos: © Rasmus Norlander . + gooood

Along the Gold Coast of Lake Zurich, individual localities have lost a clear sense of identity amongst the continuity of the suburban landscape. Generic architecture determines the immediate context of any remaining open spaces, land reserves from former agricultural zones, which create a welcome pause in this otherwise monotonous rhythm. A simple meadow space visibly benefits the densely packed rows of single-family home urbanization. In general, gardens comprise the leftover spaces in between individual houses, executed with varying degrees of success. All in all, they represent that which remains behind after a house has been constructed – nothing more. Continue reading E2A

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Barozzi / Veiga

PUEZ-ODLE VISITOR CENTRE . Funes

Barozzi  Veiga . PUEZ-ODLE VISITOR CENTRE . Funes (1)

Barozzi / Veiga

The identity of a place has to do with the recognition and recollection of a series of essential elements, such as images, atmospheres and shapes. Taking these elements as a departure point we can achieve architectures with minimum boundaries between building and place, which directly state what they are. Continue reading Barozzi / Veiga

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Peter Märkli

Novartis CAMPUS VISITOR CENTRE . Basel

Peter Märkli . Novartis CAMPUS VISITOR CENTRE . Basel (1)

Peter Märkli . Goran Potkonjak . + mimoa

Before the advent of modern scientific methods in chemistry and pharmacology, it was the alchemists who endeavoured to discover remedies for human ailments. The office building Peter Märkli architekten designed for pharmaceutical giant Novartis Pharma recalls alchemy’s other enterprise, its attempts to turn base metals into gold: or rather, Märkli has succeeded in maintaining that illusion. The anodised aluminium of the loadbearing façades has been coated with a champagne-coloured paint and the air ducts that run across the roof are encased in gold-coloured aluminium sandwich board. While such non-designed service elements are often an eyesore, here they look like costly treasures. Continue reading Peter Märkli