In the Middle of Nowhere: Sarreyer Cabin by Rapin Saiz Architects.With its stern, rough-cut log exterior, combined with a rusty stove pipe attached almost ad hoc to the side of the structure, this cabin looks anything but homely. But this less than charming effect was deliberately employed by the Swiss...
Monte Rosa Hut in Switzerland by Bearth & Deplazes Architekten.Perched on a ridge, yet dwarfed by a pretty vicious looking glacier, the New Monte Rosa Hut could easily be mistaken as a villain’s secret lair in an epic bond novel. Designed by Bearth & Deplazes architects, the five storey...
Peter Zumthor’s Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in Sauda, Norway.It’s a bleak Norwegian vista. What appears from the outside as a series of dark grey cubicles suspended from a stone wall offers no relief from the aggressive landscape of grey rock and wilderness surrounding it. The story behind the...
Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall by Herzog & de Meuron Opens in Hamburg.Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg, designed by acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, has officially opened after 15 years in the...
Reconstruction of A Townhouse in Zurich, Switzerland by idA Architekten.Originally built in 1983, this apartment building in Zurich has been given one hell of a face-lift by idA architects. Bit of a whack commission in the first place, the building has been re-modeled to accommodate six three-bedroom...
Black Maria Temporary Performance Pavilion by GRUPPE // London.Black Maria is a temporary architectural construct that served as an event space, meeting point, spectacle and screening device at Central St. Martin Art School in London's Kings Cross. The project formed pard of artist Richard...
Casa C in Switzerland by Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten.Zürich young architects Marianne Julia Baumgartner and Luca Camponovo from Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten has recently converted a hundred year old hay barn into a modern family house in a high valley village in Reckingen-Gluringen....
House in Balsthal by Pascal Flammer // Switzerland.To Switzerland, today, where outside the little town Balsthal stands this sweet cottage by Pascal Flammer. Looking at the photos, I can’t stop the walls and roof morphing into gingerbread. I’m starting design work on my own little...
MRQT Menswear Boutique by ROK // Stuttgart, Germany.Swiss architecture firm Rippmann Oesterle Knauss (ROK) recently completed the MRQT Stuttgart boutique. The stand-out feature of this streetwear store is a textured wall made up of 22,000 individual timber dowels. The minimal interior...
