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Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten

The new building for the Residence of the Swiss Ambassador in Algiers is designed as an open, kaleidoscopic garden pavilion. The main rooms in the Residence are set along a spacious loggia, which opens onto the garden over the whole length of the building. The existing palm garden can be used both privately by the Ambassador’s family and also for official receptions and festivities. The entrance hall, reception room and dining room form an expressive and prestigious configuration at the centre of which there is a spacious staircase leading to the roof terrace with its view of the sea. The Ambassador’s apartment is arranged around a planted patio, and the bedrooms are oriented towards a terraced garden on the private south side. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten . Photos: © Walter Mair

The brief was to build a two-family house comprising two adjoining dwellings on a small sloping plot overlooking Lake Zurich. On the uphill side the plot is shaded by an old plane tree while the lake side presents a panoramic view that extends from Zurich along the length of the lake to the Glarus Alps. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten . photos: © Walter Mair . + gooood

The house in Binningen, located in a suburb of Basel, is a five unit apartment building. It responds to what we felt was an intrusion of a big building into a quaint neighbourhood of single family houses. The essentially rectangular volume has its main façade facing the street while on its western elevation folds inward in order to create a garden space. Continue reading Lütjens Padmanabhan