The architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron was founded in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Additional partners who have joined the team since then are Harry Gugger (1991), Christine Binswanger (1994), Robert Hösl (2004), and Ascan Mergenthaler (2004). The company is headquartered in Basel and has about 180 employees worldwide, with offices in London, Munich, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Beijing.

Herzog & de Meuron gained international renown and recognition with the following projects among others: Tate Modern (2000) and Laban Dance Center (2003) in London, Schaulager® art warehouse and exhibition space for the Laurenz Foundation in Münchenstein/Basel (2003), Prada Aoyama Epicenter in Tokyo (2003), Forum 2004 in Barcelona (2004), Allianz Arena in Munich for the two football clubs FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 (opening games on May 30/21, 2005, FIFA World Cup in June 2006), and National Stadium in Beijing (venue for the 2008 Olympic Games in China).

Since the firm’s founding, Herzog & de Meuron have also designed numerous exhibitions, space concepts, and objects, and in many projects have collaborated with artists such as Rémy Zaugg and Thomas Ruff.

Since 1994, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been guest professors at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2002 they founded ETH Studio Basel/Institut Stadt der Gegenwart together with Roger Diener and Marcel Meili. In addition to numerous awards, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron received the Pritzker Architecture Prize for their entire œuvre.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

Blue House

Oberwil/CH
project 1979, realization 1980
Client: B. et L. Hofstetter

Photographic Studio Frei

Weil/D
project 1981, realization 1981/82
Client:Ursula und Rolf Frei-Reimann, Fischingen/D

Photographic Studio Frei - Image 2

Weil/D
project 1981, realization 1981/82
Client:Ursula und Rolf Frei-Reimann, Fischingen/D

Info (http://tenplusone.inax.co.jp/project/pics2004/ws/en/ws_e_hh009.html)

Photographic Studio Frei - Image 3

Weil/D
project 1981, realization 1981/82
Client:Ursula und Rolf Frei-Reimann, Fischingen/D

Stone House, Tavole

Tavole/Ligurie, Italie
projet 1982, réalisation 1985 - 1988
Client: E. K. Meid

Apartment Building Schützenmattstrasse

Basel/CH

competition1984/1985 project1991 realization1992/93

Client: Pensionkasse des Basler Staatspersonals, BS
H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
André Maeder

Apartment Building Schützenmattstrasse - Image - 2

competition1984/1985 project1991 realization1992/93

Client: Pensionkasse des Basler Staatspersonals, BS
H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
André Maeder

Apartment Building Schützenmattstrasse - Image 3

Basel/CH

competition1984/1985 project1991 realization1992/93

Client: Pensionkasse des Basler Staatspersonals, BS
H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
André Maeder

Plywood House

Bottmingen, Suisse
projet 1984, réalisation 1985
Client: Eva Brunner-Sulzer

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Renée Levy

Apartment Building along a Party Wall, Hebelstrasse

Basel/CH
competition 1984, completion 1987/88
Client: Hochbauaumt Basel-Stadt

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron Mario Meier

Info on project including plans (http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/H_and_dM/translations/hdm_7/hdm_7.html)

Schwitter Apartment and Office Building

Basel/CH
competition 1985, project 1985, realisation 1987/88
Client: Horat Generalunternehmung AG

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Annette Gigon

Info on Project (http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/H_and_dM/translations/hdm_6/hdm_6.html)

Ricola Storage Building

Laufen/CH
projet 1986, realization 1987
Client: Ricola AG, Laufen

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron

The building in Laufen has a very specific function: storing Ricola's herbal pastilles. Herzog & de Meuron made a building envelope for the large metal storage container to protect the pastilles from the substantial variations in temperature in the Swiss Jura.

Seen from the outside and from a distance, the building reveals itself as a unity.
Visual references are also made to the traditional stacking of sawn timber boards around the numerous saw mills of the area, as well as to the limestone quarry within which the storage building sits. The image of the stacking of planks is confirmed on approaching the building; every element of the cladding is a kind of storage frame wherein parts of façades are ‚stored', just as goods are stored in the building's interior.

Railway Engine Depot, Auf dem Wolf

Basel, Schweiz
project 1989, realization 1991-1995
Client: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen Hochbau Kreis II

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger

Railway Engine Depot, Auf dem Wolf - 2

Basel, Schweiz
project 1989, realization 1991-1995
Client: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen Hochbau Kreis II

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger

Signal box, Auf dem Wolf

Basel/CH
project 1988/89, realization 1992-1995
Client: SBB Kreis 2, Swiss Federal Railway

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger

Signal box, Auf dem Wolf - Image 2

Basel/CH
project 1988/89, realization 1992-1995
Client: SBB Kreis 2, Swiss Federal Railway

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger

Info on project (http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/H_and_dM/translations/hdm_5/hdm_5.html)

Pfaffenholz Sports Centre

St. Louis/F
project1989/1990 realization1992/1993
Client: Bürgerspital Basel

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Christine Binswanger - Erich Diserens

Gallery for a Private Collection of Modern Art, Goetz Collection

Munich/D
project 1989-1990 construction 1991/1992
Client: Ingvild Goetz

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Mario Meier in collaboration with: Helmut Federle, conception of the
gallery spaces

Ricola-Europe SA. Production and Storage Building

Mulhouse-Brunnstatt/F
project1992 realization1993
Client: H.P.Richterich, chief executive Ricola AG, Laufen/CH

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
André Maeder

Ricola-Europe SA. Production and Storage Building - Image 2

Mulhouse-Brunnstatt/F
project1992 realization1993
Client: H.P.Richterich, chief executive Ricola AG, Laufen/CH

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
André Maeder

Roche Pharma Research Buildings 92, Storage Building 41

Basel/CH
project1993 and 1995, realisation1996 - 2000
Client: F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG, Basel

Roche Pharma Research Buildings 92, Storage Building 41 - Image 2

Basel/CH

project1993 and 1995, realisation1996 - 2000
Client: F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG, Basel

Library of the Eberswalde Technical School

Eberswalde/D
project1994-96 realization 1997-99
Client: Land Brandenburg, represented by the Ministery for Culture

Library of the Eberswalde Technical School - Image 2

Eberswalde/D
project1994-96 realization 1997-99
Client: Land Brandenburg, represented by the Ministery for Culture

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger Philippe Fürstenberger
- Andreas Reuter - Katsumi Darbellay -
Susanne Kleinlein - Yvonne Rudolf

Main Signal Tower SBB

Basel/CH
project1994/95 realization1997/98
Client: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen Hochbau Kreis II

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Harry Gugger - Philippe Fürstenberger

Exhibition at Tate Modern (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1040&highlight=herzog)

Tate Modern (www.tate.org.uk/modern)

Tate Online (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=395&highlight=herzog)

126 Tate Modern

Location London, GB
Competition 1994-1995
Project 1995-1997
Realization 1998-2000
Client Tate Gallery

The former turbine hall of Tate Modern is the largest exhibition space in the world. The almost empty hall is 160m long, 23m wide and 40m high. Adjacent to the hall are 85 galleries spread across seven floors. Herzog & De Meuron have refurbished this former power station in a sober manner with respect for its industrial character. The most noticeable intervention is the addition of a two-storey glass box along the entire length of the building.

Vertical dynamics
To expand its exhibition capacities, the Tate Gallery chose a former power plant built between 1947 and 1963 on the bank of London's Thames River according to plans by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Herzog & de Meuron exhibit the monumentality of the building. The brick façade is preserved; later additions that disturb the picture are removed. The chimney, rising up 99 meters, has its vertical dynamics restored and is completed with an immaterial looking horizontal element: a two-storey high "light beam" of glass is placed on top of the brick building.

Urban forum
Inside the building, the core of the power plant has been removed all the way down to the building layer. The former hall that housed the turbine, which in the centre stretches across the entire length of the building at a height of 35 meters, has been dug out down to the foundation walls and is designed as an urban forum accessible via a long ramp. The densely packed museum has been placed at the side of this grandiose emptiness in the former boiler house, the third building layer.

House in Leymen

Leymen, Ht.Rhin/F
project 1996, realization 1997
client: Hanspeter Rudin, Basel/Ettingen

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog – Pierre de Meuron
Lukas Bögli

House in Leymen - Image 2

Leymen, Ht.Rhin/F
project 1996, realization 1997
client: Hanspeter Rudin, Basel/Ettingen

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog – Pierre de Meuron
Lukas Bögli

ISP - Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals, Rossetti Premises
Basel/CH
project 1995 realization 1997/98
Client: Building Department, Canton of Basel-Stadt

Studio Rémy Zaugg

Mulhouse-Pfastatt/F
project 1995 construction 1995/96
Client: Rémy Zaugg, Basel and Mulhouse

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog – Pierre de Meuron
Reto Oechslin

Woodhouse in Stuttgart

Stuttgart/D
project study 1995 realization Ausführungsplanung nach Baueingabe gestoppt
Client: Josef Fröhlich, Stuttgart/D

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Lukas Bögli

Info on project (http://www.dmkdmk.com/articles/herzogdemeuron.html)

Dominus Winery

Herzog & de Meuron have a passion for wine. The Dominus Winery in California is an elegant and complex building comprising offices and an enormous storage space for the wine barrels. The way in which Herzog & de Meuron dealt with the vast volume of the building is particularly interesting. It is a large compact volume but it also fuses with the environment because the walls are constructed from the irregularly shaped basalt rocks, which can also be seen in the surrounding landscape.

Winery
The building is divided into three functional units: the tank room with huge chrome tanks for the first stage of fermentation, the Barrique cellar where the wine matures in oak vats for two years, and the storeroom where the wine is bottled, packed in wooden cases, and stored until it is sold. We designed to house these three functional units in a linear building some 100 meters long, 25 meters wide, and nine meters high. The building bridges the main axis, the main path of the winery, and is thus in the midst of the vineyards.

Basalt
The climate in Napa Valley is extreme. We wanted to design a structure that would be able to take advantage of these conditions. In front of the facades, we placed gabions, a device used in river engineering, that is, wire containers filled with stones. Added to the walls, they form an inert mass that insulates the rooms against heat by day and cold at night. We chose a local basalt that ranges from dark green to black and blends in beautifully with the landscape.

Gabions
The gabions are filled more or less densely as needed so that parts of the walls are very impenetrable while others allow the passage of light: natural light comes into the rooms during the day and artificial light seeps through the stones at night. You could describe our use of the gabions as a kind of stone wickerwork with varying degrees of transparency, more like skin than like traditional masonry.

Test model
We built a first mock-up to scale in Basel to test the quality of varyiing transparencies as well as the technical feasibility of the structure. A second mock-up was built at full height of nine meters on the site in Yountville. These full-scale tests were necessary in order to become familiar with this brand new architectural element even if it is nothing but a wall of stones.

St. Jakob Park Basel

Soccer Stadium, Commercial Center and Senior’s Residence

Basel/CH
Projekt 1996-98, Ausführung 1998-2002
Auftraggeber: Marazzi Generalunternehmung AG, Basel

Küppersmühle Museum – Grothe Collection

Duisburg/D
project 1997, realization 1997-99
Client: City of Duisburg, represented by GEBAG

Ricola Marketing Building

Laufen/CH
Project 1997 realization 1998
Client: Ricola AG, H.-P. Richterich

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron
Ivo Sollberger - Anna Wickenhauser-
Mario Meier

Museum of Modern Art. New York

New York/USA
competition 1997
Client: the Museum of Modern Art, New York

H&deM Project Team: Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
Christine Binswanger Roland Bachman -
Imre Bartal - Konstanze Beelitz - Béla
Berec –Lukas Bögli - Lukas Kupfer -
Patrick Linggi - Hansuli Matter –
Mario Meier - Reto Oechslin - Koshi
Omi - Juan Salgado

The New DeYoung Museum (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1010&highlight=herzog)

Link to Site (http://www.sfgate.com/deyoung/)

Prada Aoyama Epicenter by H & de M (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=886&highlight=herzog)

In 1999 Prada launched a strategy to transform shopping into a completely new experience. Central to the strategy are buildings by modern, pioneering architects. In Prada Aoyama shopping is a diffuse, hybrid experience in which retail and culture fuse in a building with a kaleidoscopic structure.

Crystal
Herzog & de Meuron: We decided early on to focus on vertical volume containing the maximum permitted gross floor area so that part of the lot acreage can remain undeveloped. This area will form a kind of plaza, comparable to the public spaces of a European city. The shape of the building is substantially influenced by the angle of incidence of the local profile. Depending on where the viewer is standing, the body of the building will look more like a crystal or like an archaic type of building with a saddle roof. The ambivalent, always changing and oscillating character of the building's identity is heightened by the sculptural effect of its glazed surface structure.

Cinematographic perspective
The rhomboid-shaped grid on the façade is clad on all sides with a combination of convex, concave or flat panels of glass. These differing geometries generate facetted reflections, which enable viewers, both inside and outside the building, to see constantly changing pictures and almost cinematographic perspectives of Prada products, the city and themselves.

Contrast
The fittings with lamps and furniture for the presentation of Prada products and for visitors are especially designed for this location. The materials are either hyper-artificial, like resin, silicon and fiberglass, or hyper-natural, like leather, moss or porous planks of wood. Such contrasting materials prevent fixed stylistic classifications of the site, allowing both traditional and radically contemporary aspects to appear as equal components.

226 National Stadium, The Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games

The design for the Olympic Stadium in Beijing looks like a bird's nest. In reality it is an ingenious structure of concrete ribbons draped over one another. The basic form of a stadium, which has changed little since the Coliseum, is still recognizable, but the aesthetic is totally new. It must be completed in 2008 for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Bird's nest
The new National Stadium is located on a gentle rise in the centre of the Olympic complex. It is conceived as a large collective vessel. The stadiums appearance is pure structure. Façade and structure are identical. The structural elements mutually support each other and converge into a grid-like formation - like a bird's nest with its interwoven twigs.

Membrane
The structural elements mutually support each other and converge into a spatial grid-like formation, in which façades, stairs and the roof are integrated. Just as birds stuff the spaces between the woven twigs of their nests with a soft filler, the spaces in the structure of the stadium will be filled with light material. There are two layers of translucent membranes: an outer layer fills the spaces in the structure of the stadium to make the roof weatherproof and an inner layer acts as an acoustic ceiling inside the roof structure, giving the bowl a smooth and homogeneous appearance. The sliding roof is an integral part of the structure of the stadium. When it is closed, it converts the stadium into a covered arena. With its own structural logic, it is also a grid-like formation that forms a waterproof shell together with the translucent membranes.

Crowd
Visitors walk through this formation and enter the spacious ambulatory that runs full circle around the stands. From there one can survey the circulation of the entire area including the stairs that access the three tiers of the stands. Functioning like an arcade or a concourse, the lobby is a covered urban space with restaurants and stores. The stands are designed without any interruption to evoke the image

190 Forum 2004, building and square

Location Barcelona, Spain
Competition 2000
Project 2001-2002
Realization 2002-2004
Client Represented by Infrastructures del Llevante de Barcelona S.A.

After the Olympic Games in 1992 the Catalan capital presented a cultural olympiad: Forum Barcelona 2004. Some 200 hectares were made available for this project in the north of the city. Herzog & de Meuron designed the congress center: "From a distance it resembles a blue wedge of cake, but as you get closer you see that the building's skin is bumpy like a 1970s plastered wall. Because of the 'bites' that have been taken from the sides and the vertical holes in the triangle (which houses the building's heart and the 'light piazza') it looks a little like a piece of Swiss Emmental cheese". (Bob Witman in De Volkskrant).

Coastal skyline
The site was a so-called terrain vague, urbanistically speaking a 'no-man's land' and is located at the end of the Avenida Diagonal where it meets the Mediterranean coast. From the perspective of urban planning, the project envisions a striking culmination of this grand historic avenue and its connection with the new coastal skyline.

Public space
Herzog & de Meuron: Instead of planning the building as an independent object in an open public space, we decided to design a structure that would both generate and articulate this public space. These consider-ations almost inevitably led to the proposal of an elevated, flat triangular form. Not only does this form correspond ideally to the project perimeter, covering the entire area within, it is also a perfect expression of the specific location of this site between the peripheral streets of the city's orthogonal Cerda grid and the Avenida Diagonal.

Triangle
The flat triangular body houses an auditorium, exhibition areas, conference rooms, restaurants and foyer spaces. The covered area beneath the triangular volume is to be a hybrid space offering a combination of urban typologies. A series of courtyards that intersect the elevated structure establish a complex inter-action between the covered open spaces and the various levels of the Forum building, constantly creating new viewing angles and changing light effects.

169 Schaulager Laurenz-Stiftung

Location Münchenstein, Basel, Switzerland
Project 1998-1999
Realization 2000-2003
Client Laurenz-Stiftung

Great Images of Project - High Res (http://www.figure-ground.com/travel/image.php?basel)

Schaulager is a massive, closed building that houses storage for modern art, a research center and exhibition space. It is a sort of bunker whose concrete facades are clad with gravel excavated from the building site so that they resemble walls of rock. Daylight is admitted through several fissure-like openings in the facade.

Warehouse
Herzog & de Meuron: We tried to develop a kind of architecture that would express the floor-by-floor storage and stacking pictorially as well: as some-thing durable and solid. The external shape of the warehouse is pragmatically derived from the geometry of the internal storage arrangements and the setback requirements of the building code. This led to a polygonal building made out of materials extracted on site and looking as it if had been extruded from the ground.

Earth
The façade of the polygon facing Emil-Frey-Strasse is indented to create a kind of forecourt, which identifies the entrance area visibly from a distance. This entrance seems to be guarded by a little building with a gable roof, constructed from the same earthy material as the ware-house.

Pebbles
The gravel material excavated on site was used to construct the walls, but it also determined the forms and surface structures of other parts of the building, inside and outside. The window sections seem like natural forms but are actually calculated forms, produced with digitally controlled tools and modeled after the natural shape of the pebbles on a larger scale. Thus a kind of artificial yet natural landscape is created within the window apertures, so the window does not serve primarily to provide a view of the at best trivial landscape of the urban periphery, but is a landscape in its own right.

Junk-shop
In our initial designs we tried to condense the idea of storage into a single vertical and a horizontal area. A gigantic wall would have accommodated all the wall-mounted art somewhat like a junk-shop; the rest of the work would have been distributed over a floor area without dividing walls.

160 Laban Creekside

Location Deptford, London, GB
Competition 1997
Project 1998-1999
Realization 2000-2003
Client Laban Dance Centre, London
In collaboration with Michael Craig-Martin (colour concept)

Info On Dance Center (http://www.dmkdmk.com/articles/herzogdemeuron.html)

The design for Laban Creekside is based on the diverse functions and spaces the building houses: a café, offices, a library and thirteen dance studios. It is a lively, urban complex. The specially developed, double-layered facade comprises polycarbonate cladding panels and a colored layer - lemon, magenta and turquoise - through which the internal lighting glows.

Modern dance
Laban is one of the leading institutions for contemporary dance training, named after Rudolf Laban (1879-1958) one of the founding figures of European Modern Dance. St.Paul's Church becomes an important point of reference for the new complex. The large, embracing gesture of the Laban building volume gives the effect of creating a spatial limitation as well as a melting together of Laban Garden and Laban Centre.

Colour concept
All activities are intermixed and distributed on only two main levels. Two planted yards are cut in at different depths; they provide daylight to the interior. Colors determine the rhythm and orientation both inside and outside the building. For the development of an independent colour concept, Herzog & de Meuron contacted the artist Michael Craig-Martin.

Shadows
The exterior facades consist of transparent or translucent glass panels, depending on whether the space behind them requires a view. Coloured, transparent polycarbonate panels are mounted in front of the glass panels and serve as a protective shield and contribute to the overall energy system. The shadow images of the dancers, falling onto the matt glass surfaces of the interior walls and façades are playing an active part of the Laban's architectural identity.

Links -

Archinform (www.archinform.net/arch/291.htm)

Archibot (http://www.archibot.com/stories/st_herzog1.html)

El Croquis (http://www.stoutbooks.com/cgi-bin/stoutbooks.cgi/09691.html)

Arcspace (www.arcspace.com/architects/ptw)

Great Buildings Online (www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Herzog_and_de_Meuron.html)

Galinsky (http://www.galinsky.com/architects.htm)

Harvard Project List (http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/herzog/projects.html)

Any more information on the Blue House ?

I am looking into finding more info and better pictures on all of thw works I have posted. Stay Tuned. :cheers:

Some available books (http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/hdm_tatemodern/pages/tate_book2.htm) -

The Museum of Chance
Herzog & de Meuron thinks like an artist—and produces a museum addition as pragmatic as it is unpredictable.

By Thomas Fisher

JUNE 12, 2005 -- Architecture must be the least spontaneous of the arts. While composers and artists have long explored the unpredictable, from John Cage's variable musical scores to Jackson Pollack's action paintings, architects have often felt compelled to rationalize our every move, given the cost and complexity of building. Which is why the Walker Art Center's new addition, designed by Herzog & de Meuron (in association with Hammel, Green and Abrahamson) stands as such a significant achievement: It embraces the idea of chance in ways that few architects have.

Extending uphill from the existing brick-clad museum designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1971, the addition consists of a glass-and-stucco–clad base—containing galleries, offices, service areas, and a "town square"—on top of which stands a dented, crumpled cube housing a performance hall, restaurant, and entertainment space. Facing a major thoroughfare in Minneapolis, the addition provides a piece of public art on a grand scale—and a sly reflection of its surroundings.

Misc Book Scan Regarding Prada Store -

Misc Book Scan Regarding Prada Store - 2

didn't takesh post images before? maybe he need to repost in ppb2

i need to repost the signal box and the stadium

didn't takesh post images before? maybe he need to repost in ppb2

i need to repost the signal box and the stadium

That would be great. I did a search on PPB 2 and have tried to link or mention everyone available.

didn't takesh post images before? maybe he need to repost in ppb2

That would be great. I did a search on PPB 2 and have tried to link or mention everyone available.

How could you guys miss it? :confused:
Prada Aoyama Epicenter by H & de M (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=886)

How could you guys miss it? :confused:
Prada Aoyama Epicenter by H & de M (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=886)

Clearly you didn't check the posts...It is directly linked from the listed project.

Page #4 - That is one of the first ones that comes up in a search

One of my favorite project - Ian Schrager's 40 Bond Street condominium designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss duo of Herzog & de Meuron

glass curtain walls - detail

(glass pieces manufactured in Barcelona)

The other notable design element here is the cast aluminum gate at street level with its graffiti-inspired form.

The private garden to one of the townhouse units. - I love it :not worth

Herzog & de Meuron - interior design - 40 Bond in Detail

thanks :)

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it's a shame they had to throw away all the books with no white cover.

Additional photos of 'Beijing Olympics 2008 Stadium' scanned from a magazine:

pic 1: a retractable roof can be used to closed the stadium for indoor events and in poor weather. Herzog and de Meuron deliberately avoid a technocratic structure

pic 2: an open concourse distributes spectators to the three seating tiers.

pic 3: in the stadium, the audience become the architecture

pic 4:
quote:'We wanted to get away from the usal technocratic stadiums, with their architecture dominated by structural spans and digital screens. It is simple and almost archaically direct in its spatila impact. The crowd is the architecture. The regular proportions are intended to shift the spectators and the track and field events into the foreground'
HERZOG AND DE MEURON

*more photos from the Olympic site
http://en.beijing2008.com/74/79/article211987974.shtml

Any mroe information for "schaulager"?
For example,the sight from inside to outside through the "fissure".:wondering

jp, i know this has been floating around for a while but did you hear that they are supposedly designing the new parrish art museum

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/050811li.asp

a few months back this was posted saying they are going to scale it back

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070308parrish.asp

http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3732&highlight=parrish+art+museum

I am hoping to go to Herzog Exhibition at the parrish and take some shots of the models and post here. I was lucky enough to go to some of the private design meetings.

very cool:clap:

I read at the moment: "Die Schweiz. Ein städtebauliches Portrait" "Grenzen, Gemeinden. Eine kurze Geschichte des Territoriums" (English: ~ Switzerland: An urbanism portrait. Borders, townships.History of territory.

It`s part of a series of "Die Schweiz. Ein städtebauliches Portrait".
Authors:
Roger Diener, JacquesHerzog, Marcel Meili, Pierre de Meuron, Christian Schmid.

ETH Studio Basel. Institut der Gegenwart./Birkhäuser(publishing house)
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It`s a very, very good description of Switzerland in context of complex urbanism. It shows the ambivalence of the country between regional and urban thoughts. It gives the landscape and country structures, leads through Switzerland in an informative way. It is a look into the country and its background.

I can advise it to you.

I will make a thread when I am "through".Perhaps we make a great PPB book and real theory area too...:)