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Completed in 2007 by Swiss architecture firm 2b architectes and NB.Arch La Tuffiere Cultural Center blends into the village context and evokes vernacular architectural archetypes through the reinterpretation of well-known silhouettes.
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In 2016, Swiss architecture studio Think Architecture completed the “Five Patio” Houses project in Meilen. The two-story house uses a pavilion-like effect to capture the views of the surrounding landscape including a lake and a forest.
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In 2018, Swiss architecture studio Think Architecture completed in Zurich “House in a Park”. Taking their inspiration from the natural environment the house integrates harmoniously with the landscape of the surrounding park.
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In 2013, Swiss architecture studio Think Architecture completed the Courtyards Houses project located on a hilly plot of Zumikon. The modular design allowed to comply with the strict regulations of the specific plan while preserving the privacy of the units both in the interior and exterior spaces.
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In 1986, an avalanche hit the small Swiss village of Mogno, flattening the hamlet’s seventeenth-century church. Architect Mario Botta was commissioned to design the new San Giovanni Battista church on the site. Although the new sacred space preserves the relatively modest dimensions, it introduces a new image and a new language. The language conveys a contemporary dimension, mediated by an…
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The Bianchi House was designed by Italian architect Mario Botta in 1971. Built on a sharply inclined hillside above the village of Riva San Vitale on the shores of Lake Lugano the house is set in the lower part of the plot and laid out on different levels like a tower.
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The therme Suiteroom project designed by Kengo Kuma in 2015 is a penthouse restoration on top of the Vals Therme Hotel in Switzerland using local materials.
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The Circle project designed by SANAA in 2010 is an eleven-story building complex located at Zurich airport. The building has retail program on the first and second floor, offices on floors three to eight, and a hotel on the ninth, tenth and eleventh floor.
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The Summer Restaurant in Ufenau island will be designed by Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor. Swimming is prohibited at the island, but a visit to idyllic Ufenau is still worthwhile thanks to its medieval churches and a friendly inn.
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For this Students Apartments project by Swiss architects Durisch+Nolli , the task was the careful insertion of 280 rooms in a complex landscape, paying attention to the specific requirements dictated by modern student accommodation standards whilst maintaining scale compatibility with the district.
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