Items Tagged with 'Zurich'

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Prime Tower

Vertical Integration: At 413 feet, Zurich's tallest building is emblematic of a neighborhood's delicate balancing act—once an industrial district, it is being transformed into a business and design hub.
Laura Raskin
June 16, 2013
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At 413 feet, Zurich's tallest building is emblematic of a neighborhood's delicate balancing act—once an industrial district, it is being transformed into a business and design hub.


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2 Verandas

Discreet in Concrete: On a built-up hillside overlooking Lake Zurich, a quietly monumental house asserts its powerful presence on the interior.
Laura Raskin
April 16, 2013
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While most of its eurozone neighbors were whacked by financial crises, Switzerland managed to avoid a recession, and its economy grew by 1 percent in 2012. 


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Leutschenbach School

A School With a View: A Swiss city in transition employs bold architecture as a functional and symbolic catalyst for change in a traditional education system.
Lentz
Linda C. Lentz
January 16, 2012
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The schoolhouse as we know it has been upended in Leutschenbach, Switzerland, a quiet suburban corner north of metropolitan City of Zurich, Switzerland, where the city is transforming a former industrial site into a mixed-use, middle-class neighborhood infused with green spaces.


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Rietberg Museum Expansion Project Portfolio

David Sokol
June 19, 2009
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Project Specs Rietberg Museum Expansion Zurich, Switzerland ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz << Return to article the People Architect ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz GmbH, Zürich (Alfred Grazioli and Adolf Krischanitz) Project architect: Elke Eichmann, Dipl. Arch. ETH SIA NDS Members of staff: competition: Wieka Muthesius, Birgit Frank, Ralf Wilkening construction planning: Thomas Künzle, Jay Thalmann, Dimitri Kaden, Naomi Hajnos, Simone Wiestner Interior designer: ARGE Grazioli Krischanitz GmbH, Zürich Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: Ernst Basler und Partner building services: Brunner Haustechnik building services electric: HEGE Elektro Glass-Planning (Pavillon): Ludwig und Weiler Consultant(s) Landscape: SIT Trüb Baumpflege, Aarau Lighting: d'lite lichtdesign, Zurich General contractor: Dietsche Walter,
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