Berrel Kräutler Architekten . photos: © Damian Poffet
The new building enlarges the existing headquarters of the World Health Organization, set in a park complex at the edge of Geneva. In conception and design, it takes Jean Tschumi’s masterwork of 1966 as a point of departure. Analogously, the addition is structured as a unifying base and a recessed ground floor above which a larger volume is suspended. Forming the spatial centrepiece is a spacious hall in the connecting structure and an open atrium in the office tower. Continue reading Berrel Kräutler