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post updated 22 February 2026
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28 January 2025
Bellerivestrasse 36 Office Building
Design: C.F. Møller Architects
photo : Mark Hadden
Modernisation of an iconic 70s Swiss office building into a highly sustainable building integrated with the surrounding park and Lake Zürich to become a new attraction for users and citizens in Zürich.
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14 June 2023
Residential Barn Zürich
Design: Be Architektur
photo : Vito Stallone
Be Architektur introduces its Residential Barn project in a Hamlet Zone of around 15 buildings in a rural, mainly agricultural setting in Switzerland. This new home in the hamlet feels obliged to honor the area’s historical context.
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7 Jan 2022
The Circle at Zurich Airport Building News
Design: Holzer Kobler Architekturen, in coopration with Riken Yamamoto
photo courtesy of architects office
The Circle Zurich Airport
Housed inside the brand-new boomerang-shaped building is 80,000 sqm of greenery, coupled with what is being coined as a ‘micro-city’. From futuristic office space and marketplaces to dining and cultural options, The Circle offers everything that a business or leisure traveller could ever need or want.
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26 Nov 2021
Semiramis – Robots build new Hanging Gardens, ETH Zürich
Design: Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich
rendering : Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zürich
With the help of artificial intelligence and four collaborative robots, researchers at ETH Zurich are designing and fabricating a 22.5-metre-tall green architectural sculpture. Working with Müller Illien Landscape Architects, Timbatec and other partners from industry and research, researchers from the group led by ETH architecture professors Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are creating a green architectural sculpture for the Tech Cluster Zug.
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11 Dec 2020
Kunsthaus Zürich Building, Heimplatz square
Design: David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
photograph : Noshe
After twelve years of planning and construction, the extension for the Kunsthaus Zürich is now complete. This modern Swiss art gallery will open to the public in October 2021.
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25 Apr 2019
Light Space Life – Saota Exhibition
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28 Nov 2018
Google EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich celebrates 10 years!
Design: Camenzind Evolution Architects
image Courtesy architecture office
Google EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich
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29 Sep 2016
The Metropolitans in Zürich
21 Sep 2016
Tic Tric Trac in Zürich Buildings, Räffelstrasse 22
Design: Baumschlager Eberle
photo from architects
21 Sep 2016
Blumenhaus Zürich, Schiffbaustrasse 7
Design: Wiel Arets Architects (WAA)
photo from architects
A mixed-use program of office and retail, with private residences above, define the Blumenhaus.
14 Sep 2016
Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2016 Zürich
photo from architects
Architect Lord Norman Foster and Francis Aish, Foster + Partners, presented a public keynote lecture to the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference organised by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich.
23 Aug 2016
K.I.S.S. Residential Development – Brunnenhof Zurich Housing
Architects: Evolution Design
photo : Peter Wurmli
29 Jul 2016
Archaeology Museum Building Zürich, The Swiss National Museum
Design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER
photograph © Daniel Stauch
The National Museum is opening its new permanent exhibition “Archaeology Switzerland”. It is located in the new building by architects Christ & Gantenbein, which sculpturally complements the horseshoe-shaped old museum building and makes a continuous and uninterrupted visitor viewing route possible.
16 Feb 2016
A Touch of Chanel Zürich
Architect: Daniele Claudio Taddei
12 Jan 2016
The Kameha Grand in Zurich
Design: Marcel Wanders
picture from architects
5 Jan 2016
New Physics Building for ETH Zurich Design Competition, Hönggerberg Campus – ETHZ Building Zürich
Design: Stanton Williams with Stähelin Architekten
picture from architects
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27 Aug 2013
Kappel Monastery, near Zürich
Design: Atelier Kempe Thill
photo from architects
Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with BBZ landscape architects has recently won the invited international competition for the revitalization / development of Kappel Monastery near Zürich / Switzerland. It is a protected historical monumental complex that today serves as a seminar hotel and educational centre of the protestant church of Zürich.
11 Jun 2013
Allianz Headquarters Zürich – building news
Design: Wiel Arets Architects
photo © Jan Bitter
This is an office complex occupying two buildings linked by a series of bridges and interlocked by a central staircase rising the height of the entire building within a centrally positioned void. The building is an office complex linked and interlocked by a series of bridges and voids.
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27 Jan 2012
Kunsthalle Zürich
Design: Gigon/Guyer
picture © Thies Wachter
The Kunsthalle Zürich will re-open to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräu art complex in Zurich on 10 June 2012 with the special exhibition, Looking Back for the Future.
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14 Jun 2010
Enzo Enea’s New Headquarters – Tree Museum Lake Zurich
Design: Oppenheim Architecture + Design
photograph from architect
Award-winning architect Chad Oppenheim unveils his latest project, landscape designer Enzo Enea’s headquarters on Lake Zurich, featuring the world’s first true Tree Museum.
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26 May 2008
Google EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich
Design: Camenzind Evolution
photo from architect
Google is not a conventional company, and does not intend to become one. This is readily apparent in their new offices for Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich, Switzerland, where the design cultivates an energized and inspiring work environment that is relaxed but focused, and buzzing with activities.
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Zurich Buildings
Major Zurich Architecture Projects, alphabetical:
Cocoon Building EMEA Engineering Hub, Seefeld
Camenzind Evolution
picture : Nick Brändli, Zurich
Aussersihl Community Center
EM2N Architects
photo © Hannes Henz
Zurich theatre Building
EM2N Architects
photo © Hannes Henz
Dolder Grand Renovation / Extension, Lake Zurich
Foster + Partners with Itten + Brechbühl
photo © Nigel Young
Erlenbach House, Pflugstein, near Zurich
Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
photograph : Heinrich Helfenstein
focusTerra, Natural Sciences Institute, ETH Zurich
2009
image from architects
Kunsthaus Zürich Extension – design competition
David Chipperfield Architects
image © David Chipperfield Architects
Railway Station Hardbruecke Upgrading
EM2N Architects
photo © Hannes Henz
Rigiblick Hotel and Theatre Zurich
Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
photograph : Heinrich Helfenstein
Residential site Cattaneo, Dietikon/Zürich
Holzer Kobler Architekturen
photograph © HKA, photo Jan Bitter
Science City Zurich Buildings
KCAP Architects
image from architects
Seewurfel Building, Mixed-Use Development
Camenzind Evolution
image from architect
Sempacher Loft Apartments – Zurich apartment building
Camenzind Evolution
image from architects
The Sequential Wall, ETH Zürich
Design: various architects
image © Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich
Sensational Zurich warehouse
Architect: Daniele Claudio Taddei
photo : Bruno Helbling, www.helblingfotografie.ch
Siemens restaurant
Camenzind Evolution
image from architects
Siewerdtstrasse Apartmenthouse Zurich
EM2N
photo © Hannes Henz
The Circle Zurich Airport
Design: Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
image : Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
Zurich Tyre Shop / Art Exchange
Camenzind Evolution
image from architects
Werd Building – Remodelling
Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
photograph : Heinrich Helfenstein
Werd Restaurant
Design: Burkhalter Sumi Architekten
photograph : Heinz Ungers
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Zurich Architecture – no images
Escher-Wyss Platz – building proposal
2007-
Caruso St John
Forsterstrasse Apartments
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Christian Kerez
Google Engineering Hub of Europe – building fit-out
2007-
Camenzind Evolution
House K+N, Wollerau
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Valerio Olgiati
Susenbergstrasse apartments
2000
Brunnenhof Housing
2007
Ice Hockey Federation building – Copper in Architecture Award Shortlist 2005
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Tilla Theus und Partner
Leimbachstrasse Housing – Design Competiiton winner – 120 co-operative apartments
2006
Pool architekten
Letzigrund Stadion – FC Zürich Stadium Building
2007
Bétrix & Consolascio with Frei & Ehrensperger
Leutschenbach Schule, Oelikion – Swiss School
2007
Christian Kerez
Library of the Institute of Law
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Santiago Calatrava Architects
Museum Rietberg – Glass Box : £19m Extension
2007
Grazioli Krischanitz: Joint Venture – Büro Grazioli + Krischanitz & Frank
Prime Tower Zurich
2010
Picassoplatz office building
2007
Peter Markli
Stadelhofen Station Building
1990
Santiago Calatrava Architects
Susenbergstrasse Housing
2000
Gigon Guyer
Swiss National Museum Extension
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Christ & Gantenbein
Theatre 11 Building
2008
EM2N
Üetliberg apartments
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Fuhrimann & Hächler (Andrea Fuhrimann Gabrielle Häckler Architekten)
University of Zurich – Library building remodelling
2004
Santiago Calatrava Architects
Zurich Airport Building – RIBA Awards – RIBA International Awards 2006
2006
Grimshaw
Zurich Concert Hall – Architecture Competition shortlist:
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Christ & Gantenbein; Gigon/Guyer; Herzog & de Meuron; Zaha Hadid Architects
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Location: Zurich, Switzerland, central Europe.
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