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  • 547 UCSF HELEN DILLER MEDICAL CENTER   Parnassus Heights, San Francisco, California, USA
    Project 2020 —
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  • 546 ZENTRUM FÜR ZAHNMEDIZIN HOTTINGEN  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 2020
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  • 543 HORTUS  Allschwil, Switzerland
    2020 -
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  • 542 TUCHKOV BUYAN PARK  St. Petersburg, Russia
    Competition 2020
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  • 538 1200 BAY STREET  Toronto, Canada
    Project 2020 —
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  • 529 POWER STATION  San Francisco, California, USA
    Project 2019 —
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  • 528 GRAND CANAL MUSEUM COMPLEX  Hangzhou, China
    Competition 2019, project 2020-
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  • 526 HAUPTPOST BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2019, project 2019 —
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  • 524 BELLTOWN  Seattle, Washington, USA
    Project 2019 —
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  • 522 HOTEL HERMITAGE, LUZERN  Lucerne, Switzerland
    Project 2019—
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  • 519 RONQUOZ 21  Sion, Switzerland
    Competition 2019, Project 2019-
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  • 517 UNIQLO TOKYO  Tokyo, Japan
    Project 2019-2020, realization 2020
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  • 516 MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART  Memphis, Tennessee USA
    Project 2019 – planned completion 2026
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 515 AUTOBAHNKIRCHE  Andeer, Switzerland
    Project 2019–
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  • 498 HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN GUND HALL EXTENSION  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Competition 2018, project 2018-
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  • 497 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL, PERIMETER B  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2018, Project 2019-
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  • 495 HAUPTSITZ CHRISTOPH MERIAN STIFTUNG  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2018–
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  • 494 FORUM UZH  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 2018, Project 2019-
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  • 491 THE BOLTONS  London, UK
    Project 2018–
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  • 490 BADENERSTRASSE  Zurich, Switzerland
    Project 2018–
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  • 489 EHEMALIGES POSTBANK KARREE  Munich, Germany
    Competition 2018, Project 2018
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  • 488 KORNMARKTPLATZ  Bregenz, Austria
    Project 2018–
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  • 487 PAKETPOSTHALLE  Munich, Germany
    Project 2018-
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  • 484 GALLERY AND ARCHIVE  Memphis, Tennessee, USA
    Project 2017
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  • 483 PROJECT STUDY  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    Project 2017
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  • 482 TITLIS 3020  Engelberg, Switzerland
    Project 2017-
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  • 480 LOMBARD ODIER NEW HEADQUARTERS  Bellevue, Geneva, Switzerland
    Competition 2017, project 2017 —
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  • 479 BASEL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (HSW)  Basel/Münchenstein, Switzerland
    Competition 2017
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 478 BADAEVSKIY BREWERY, REDEVELOPMENT  Moscow, Russia
    Project 2017-
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  • 477 DREISPITZ NORD  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2017, project 2018-
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  • 476 WINERY BÉLAIR-MONANGE  Saint-Émilion, France
    Project 2016–
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  • 474 KONZERTHAUS MÜNCHEN  Munich, Germany
    Competition 2016-2017
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 473 ST INTERNATIONAL HQ AND SONGEUN ART SPACE  Seoul, Korea
    Project 2016-2018, realization 2018-2021
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 472 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART  London, UK
    Competition 2016, Project 2016-2018, realization 2018-2021
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  • 470 PROJECT STUDY  Bangkok, Thailand
    Project 2016-2017
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 469 NEUE NATIONALGALERIE – MUSEUM DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS   Berlin, Germany
    Competition 2016, Project 2016-
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  • 468 PROJECT STUDY  Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Project 2016
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  • 467 ACTELION TQC  Allschwil, Switzerland
    Project 2016-2017
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  • 466 CLUNY IV  Cluny, France
    Project Concept 2016
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 465 HAUS AM BERLIN PAVILLON  Berlin, Germany
    Project Study 2016
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  • 464 URBAN STUDY  London, UK
    Project 2015
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  • 463 PROJECT STUDY  Florida, USA
    Project 2016
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 462 GRID  Allschwil, Switzerland
    Project 2016-
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  • 461 POWERHOUSE ARTS  Brooklyn, New York, USA
    Project 2016-
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  • 459 MIXED-USE PROJECT  Nice, France
    Competition 2015-2016
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  • 458 LSE  London, UK
    Competition 2016
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  • 457 BRAUCHLI ZIEGELEI  Berg TG, Switzerland
    Project 2015-2016
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  • 456 ROCHE BUILDINGS 8 & 11  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2015–
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  • 455 HANSEL & GRETEL  An Installation conceived by Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
    Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, USA
    Project 2014-2017, Installation 7 June – 6 August 2017
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  • 453 6AM  Arts District, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Project 2015-
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  • 450 INSEAD CAMPUS  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Project 2015–
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  • 448 BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE  Los Angeles, California, USA
    Project 2015-
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  • 447.1 15 ROOMS  Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist
    Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
    Exhibition 25 September – 8 November 2015
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  • 447 14 ROOMS  Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist
    A Collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theater Basel
    Hall 3, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Exhibition 14 - 22 June 2014
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  • 446 EXPO MILAN 2015, SLOW FOOD PAVILION  Milan, Italy
    Project 2014, realization 2015; 1 May – 31 October 2015
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  • 445 ROCHE BUILDING 2  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2015-, planned completion 2022
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  • 444 EXPO MILAN 2015  Conceptual Master Plan
    Milan, Italy
    Project 2009
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  • 443 SYDNEY MODERN  Sydney, Australia
    Competition 2014
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  • 442 INSEAD CAMPUS RENEWAL  Fontainebleau, France
    Project 2015–
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  • 441 PROJECT STUDY  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2014
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  • 439 AM TACHELES  Berlin, Germany
    Project 2014–
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  • 438 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY  Vancouver, Canada
    Project 2014 -
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  • 437 1111 LINCOLN ROAD EXTENSION  Miami Beach, Florida, USA
    Project 2014-2015, realization 2016-2018
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  • 435 ROCHE DEVELOPMENT PLAN  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2014
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  • 434 MIXED-USE PROJECT  Monaco
    Competiton 2014
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  • 433 MKM MUSEUM KÜPPERSMÜHLE, EXTENSION  Duisburg, Germany
    Project 2013-2017, realization 2016-2021
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  • 432 URBAN STUDY  Istanbul, Turkey
    Project 2013
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  • 431 ROCHE BUILDING 10  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2013-2017
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  • 430 ASTRAZENECA’S THE DISCOVERY CENTRE (DISC)  Cambridge, UK
    Competition 2013, project 2013-2021
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  • 429 STAMFORD BRIDGE  London, UK
    Project 2013–
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  • 428 URBAN STUDY  Mexico City, Mexico
    Project 2013-2014
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  • 427 FELIX PLATTER SPITAL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2013
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  • 426 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ISRAEL  Jerusalem, Israel
    Competition 2013, project 2013 –
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  • 425 ROCHE PRED CENTER  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2015–
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  • 424 PROJECT STUDY  Switzerland
    Project 2013
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  • 423 ÎLOT A3  Lyon, France
    Project 2013-2015, realization 2015-2017
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 422 TESTPLANUNG PARKHAUS MESSEPLATZ  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2013–2014
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  • 421 ROCHE BUILDING 21  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2013–
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  • 420 LEROY STREET  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2013-2015, realization 2015-2018
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  • 419 HELVETIA CAMPUS BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2013 -
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  • 418 MERET OPPENHEIM TOWER  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2013-2015, realization 2015-2018
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 417 VITRA SCHAUDEPOT, VITRA CAMPUS  Weil am Rhein, Germany
    Project 2013, realization 2014-2016
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 416 NEW NORTH ZEALAND HOSPITAL  Hillerød, Denmark
    Competition 2013-2014, project 2014 – planned completion 2024
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 415 M+  Hong Kong
    Competition 2012-2013, Project 2013-2021, Opening 2021
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  • 414 HELVETIA, EXTENSION OF HEAD OFFICE, WEST WING  St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Competition 1989, project 2013-2017, realization 2015-2017
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  • 413 PROJECT STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2012-2013
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  • 412 MIU MIU AOYAMA  Tokyo, Japan
    Project 2012–2014, realization 2014–2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 411 PROJECT STUDY  Seoul, South Korea
    Project 2012–
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  • 410 AREAL NAU  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 2012-2015
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  • 409 215 CHRYSTIE  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2012 - 2017, Realization 2014 - 2017
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  • 408.1 SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, EAST RING  Moscow, Russia
    Concept 2012, project 2012-2013, realization 2013-2018
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  • 407 NEW NATIONAL STADIUM TOKYO  Tokyo, Japan
    Competition 2012
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  • 406 PROJECT STUDY  Beijing, China
    Project 2012-2013
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  • 405 IGLESIA EN CIUDAD JUÁREZ  Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
    Project 2012–
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  • 404 ONE PARK DRIVE  Canary Wharf, London, UK
    Competition 2012, Project 2013-2019, Realization 2017-2021
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  • 403 FLINDERS STREET STATION  Melbourne, Australia
    Competition 2012-2013
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  • 402 EXTENSION OF THE STADTCASINO BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2012-2016, realization 2016-2020
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 401 THE MACALLAN NEW DISTILLERY  Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Scotland, UK
    Competition 2012
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  • 400 SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION  Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
    Kensington Gardens, London, UK
    Project and realization 2011-2012, 1 June – 14 October 2012
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 399 SANTIAGO BERNABÉU STADIUM  Madrid, Spain
    Competition 2012-2013
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  • 398 ROCHE BUILDING 98  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2012-2013
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  • 396 JADE SIGNATURE  Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA
    Project 2012-2014, realization 2014-2018
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 395 ART MILL CONCEPT  Doha, Qatar
    Project 2012-2013
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 394 SCHAULAGER SATELLITE  Messeplatz Basel/Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    Project and realization 2011-2012, 4-17 June 2012
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  • 393.1 BAHNKNOTEN BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2016-
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  • 392 CITYCENTERDC HOTEL AND RETAIL  Washington DC, USA
    Project 2011–2015, realization 2016–2019
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  • 391 ERNEUERUNG KLINIKUM 2  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2012-2013
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 390 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2011-2012
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  • 389 ZELLWEGERPARK USTER  Uster, Switzerland
    Project 2011-2013, realization 2013-2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 387 BLAVATNIK SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT  Oxford, UK
    Project 2011-2013, realization 2013-2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 386 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2011-2012
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  • 385 SKOLKOVO UNIVERSITY DISTRICT MASTER PLAN  Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia
    Project 2011–2012
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  • 384 OBERES KANDERGRIEN  Spiez, Switzerland
    Competition 2011-2012
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  • 383 PROJECT STUDY  São Paulo, Brazil
    Competition 2011
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  • 382 PROJECT STUDY  Beirut, Lebanon
    Project 2011–2012
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  • 381 PROJECT STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2011
    • > TEXT
  • 380 HERZOG & DE MEURON WEBSITE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1.0 2008-2011, Version 1.0 2011, Project 1.1 2015-2017, Version 1.1 2017
    • > TEXT
  • 379.1 VOLKSHAUS BASEL HOTEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2018-2019, realization 2020
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  • 379 VOLKSHAUS BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2011-, realization 2011-2012
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  • 378 SHINSEGAE CULTURAL CENTER  Seoul, South Korea
    Project 2011
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  • 377 KINDERSPITAL ZÜRICH  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 2011-2012, project 2014 - planned completion 2024
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 376 PROJECT STUDY  Istanbul, Turkey
    Project 2011
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  • 374.3 ESPEL PAVILLON, CHÄSERRUGG  Unterwasser, Switzerland
    Project 2017, realization 2017
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  • 374.2 ESPEL-STÖFELI-CHÄSERRUGG GONDOLA LIFT  Unterwasser, Switzerland
    Project 2014, realization 2015
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  • 374 CHÄSERRUGG  Unterwasser, Switzerland
    Concept Study 2011, project 2013–2014, realization 2014–2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 373 PROJECT STUDY  Calvià, Majorca, Spain
    Project 2010
    • > TEXT
  • 372 PROJECT STUDY  Shanghai, China
    Project 2010
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  • 371 PROJECT MONROE  Singapore
    Competition 2010
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 370 PAVILION AT A LAKESIDE  Project 2010, realization 2011
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 369 RICOLA KRÄUTERZENTRUM  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 2010-2013, realization 2013-2014
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 368 THE BROAD MUSEUM  Los Angeles, California, USA
    Competition 2010
    • > TEXT
  • 367 NOUVEAU STADE DE BORDEAUX  Bordeaux, France
    Competition 2010-2011, project 2011-2012, realization 2013-2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 366 MUSEUM IN DOHA  Doha, Qatar
    Project 2010-
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 365 TEHUAMIXTLE MASTER PLAN  Tehuamixtle, Mexico
    Project 2010
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  • 364 URBAN STUDY  Doha, Qatar
    Competition 2010
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  • 363 RICOLA ADMINISTRATION BUILDING  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 2010
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  • 362 ASKLEPIOS 8 - AN OFFICE BUILDING ON THE NOVARTIS CAMPUS  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2010–2015, realization 2012–2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 361 ACTELION DAYCARE  Allschwil, Switzerland
    Project 2009–2010
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 360 PROJECT STUDY  Switzerland
    Project 2009-2010
    • > TEXT
  • 359 TOUR GRAND LILLE  Lille, France
    Project 2009
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  • 358 STRUCTURE FOR THE CULIACÁN BOTANICAL GARDEN  Culiacán, Mexico
    Project 2009, 2012-
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  • 357 URBAN STUDY  Hangzhou, China
    Competition 2009-2011
    • > TEXT
  • 356 MUSÉE UNTERLINDEN, EXTENSION  Colmar, France
    Competition 2009, project 2010-2012, realization 2012-2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 355 LYON LA CONFLUENCE, MASTER PLAN 2ND PHASE  Lyon, France
    Project 2009–
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  • 354.1 ARENA DO MORRO  Mãe Luíza, Natal, Brazil
    Project 2011–2012, realization 2012–2014
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 354 URBAN VISION FOR MÃE LUÍZA  Mãe Luíza, Natal, Brazil
    Project 2009
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  • 353 SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE  Shantou, China
    Project 2009–2014, realization 2014–2016
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 352 NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, NAMOC  Beijing, China
    Competition 2010-2011
    • > TEXT
  • 351 BARRANCA MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART  Guadalajara, Mexico
    Project 2009-
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    • IMAGE
  • 350 CASTAGNOLA   Lugano, Switzerland
    Project 2009-2015, realization 2011-2017
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 349 PARRISH ART MUSEUM  Water Mill, New York, USA
    Project 2009-2010, realization 2010-2012
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    • IMAGE
  • 348 GASKLOCKA, A TOWER FOR NORRA DJURGÅRDSSTADEN  Stockholm, Sweden
    Project 2009-
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    • IMAGE
  • 347 BEIRUT TERRACES  Beirut, Lebanon
    Project 2009-2012, realization 2012-2016
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE | 
    • VIDEO
  • 346 PROJECT STUDY  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
    Competition 2009
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  • 345 ROCHE BUILDING 1  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2009–2015, Realization 2011–2015
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    • IMAGE
  • 344.1 ROSENTAL MITTE  Basel, Switzerland
    Concept 2016-2020
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 344 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2008
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  • 343 SÃO PAULO CULTURAL COMPLEX LUZ  São Paulo, Brazil
    Project 2009–2012
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 342 QUINTA DOS  Los Cabos, Mexico
    Project 2008-2009
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 341 PROJECT STUDY  Monte Carlo, Monaco
    Project 2009
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    • IMAGE
  • 340 ATELIER IN DÜSSELDORF  Düsseldorf, Germany
    Project 2008-2011, realization 2010-2011
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    • IMAGE
  • 339 WALDORF ASTORIA  Beijing, China
    Project 2008-2009
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    • IMAGE
  • 338 MUSEUM IN DOHA  Doha, Qatar
    Project 2008-2009
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  • 337 HERZOG & DE MEURON AND AI WEIWEI, INSTALLATION PIECE FOR THE VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE   Contribution to La Biennale di Venezia, 11. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura: Architecture Beyond Building
    Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
    Exhibition 14 September – 23 November 2008
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  • 336 PROJECT STUDY  Paris, France
    Project 2008
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  • 335 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  Napa Valley, California, USA
    Project 2008-2010, realization 2010-2012
    • > TEXT
  • 334 PROJECT STUDY  Paris, France
    Project 2008-2010
    • > TEXT
  • 333 LORD'S MASTER PLAN  London, UK
    Competition 2008, Project 2008-2009
    • > TEXT
  • 332 PROJECT STUDY  Tokyo, Japan
    Project 2008
    • > TEXT
  • 331 KOLKATA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART  KMOMA, Kolkata, India
    Project 2008-
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  • 330 LYON LA CONFLUENCE  Lyon, France
    Study 2008
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 329 PORTSMOUTH HORSEA ISLAND  Portsmouth, UK
    Project 2008
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    • IMAGE
  • 328 FEASIBILITY STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2008
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  • 327 FELTRINELLI PORTA VOLTA   Milan, Italy
    Project 2008–2013, realization 2013-2016
    • > TEXT | 
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    • VIDEO
  • 326 THE UMM LAFINA ISLAND PROJECT  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Project 2007-2008
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    • IMAGE
  • 325 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2007-2008
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  • 324 NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR BBVA  Madrid, Spain
    Competition 2007, project 2007–2010, phase 1 realization 2009–2013, phase 2 realization 2010–2015
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 323 URBAN STUDY  Klin, Russia
    Project 2007-2008
    • > TEXT
  • 322 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2007
    • > TEXT
  • 321 HIGH RISE STUDY  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2007
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    • IMAGE
  • 320 ATTILA, STAGE DESIGN  The Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York, USA
    Project 2008, realization 2009–2010; Premiere 23 February 2010
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 319 NATURBAD RIEHEN, NATURAL SWIMMING POOL  Riehen, Switzerland
    Project 2007-2012, realization 2013-2014
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 318 ACTELION RESEARCH AND LABORATORY BUILDING  Allschwil, Switzerland
    Project 2007-2010, realization 2009-2013
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 317 IGLESIA DE LA NATIVIDAD  Culiacán, Mexico
    Project 2007-2008
    • > TEXT | 
    • IMAGE
  • 316 HIGH-RISE STUDY  Guadalajara, Mexico
    Project 2007–2008
    • > TEXT
  • 315 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2007
    • > TEXT
  • 314 PROJECT STUDY  London, UK
    Project 2007
    • > TEXT
  • 313 NOU CAMP NOU BARCELONA  Barcelona, Spain
    Competition 2007
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 312 HELSINKI DREISPITZ  Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2007–2013, realization 2012–2014
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  • 311 WATERFRONT HOTEL  Helsinki, Finland
    Project 2007-2008
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    • IMAGE
  • 310 PROJECT STUDY  London, UK
    Project 2007-2011
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  • 309 THE HARD FIELD  Portsmouth, UK
    Project 2007
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  • 308 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  Los Angeles, California, USA
    Project 2006-2007
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  • 307 TRIANGLE  Paris, France
    Project 2006–
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  • 306 PÉREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI  Miami, Florida, USA
    Project 2006-2010, realization 2010-2013
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  • 305 56 LEONARD STREET  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2006-2008, 2012-2017, realization 2008, 2012-2017
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  • 304 CITYGATE BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2006-2007
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    • IMAGE
  • 303 NEW LAS VEGAS  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    Project 2006
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  • 302 GAZPROM-CITY  St. Petersburg, Russia
    Competition 2006
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  • 301 MKM MUSEUM KÜPPERSMÜHLE, EXTENSION  Duisburg, Germany
    Project 2006-2011
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  • 300 ARTIST’S CHOICE: HERZOG & DE MEURON, PERCEPTION RESTRAINED  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
    Exhibition 21 June – 25 September 2006
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  • 299 TOUR PHARE, LA DÉFENSE  Paris, France
    Competition 2006
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  • 298 WASSERSTADT SOLOTHURN  Solothurn, Switzerland
    Project 2006–2007, 2011
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 297 BETILE MUSEUM  Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
    Competition 2006
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  • 296 TAI KWUN, CENTRE FOR HERITAGE & ARTS  Hong Kong
    Project 2006-2012, realization 2011-2018
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  • 295 BURGOS BULEVAR  Burgos, Spain
    Project 2006-2009, realization 2008-2012
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  • 294 VITRAHAUS, VITRA CAMPUS  Weil am Rhein, Germany
    Project 2006-2009, realization 2007-2009
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  • 293 PARK AVENUE ARMORY  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2006-, realization Pilot Rooms Company D and Company E 2009-2011, realization Board of Officers Room 2012-2013, realization Veterans Room 2015-2016
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  • 292 NEW OFFICE BUILDING  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2006-2008 (not realized)
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  • 291 PROJECT STUDY  Nagoya, Japan
    Project 2006
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  • 290 PETROVSKY ISLAND  St. Petersburg, Russia
    Project 2006
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  • 289 ROCHE BUILDING 97  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2006-2008, realization 2008-2011
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  • 288 PRADA IMPROBABLE CLASSICS, TEMPORARY STORE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project and realization 2006, store 10–20 June 2006
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  • 287 CULTURAL SPORTS PARK  Taipei, Taiwan
    Project 2005–2006
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  • 286 COMPENDIO MINERARIO DI MONTEPONI  Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy
    Project 2005-2008
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  • 285 SCANDIA LAS VEGAS  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    Project 2005
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  • 284 ACTELION BUSINESS CENTER  Allschwil, Switzerland
    Project 2005-2009, realization 2007-2010
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  • 283 PÔLE DE DÉVELOPMENT GARE OUEST TECHNOPORT  Saint-Louis/Hésingue, France
    Project 2005–2006
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  • 282 ESPACIO GOYA  Zaragoza, Spain
    Competition 2005–2006, project 2005–2007
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  • 281 ARTEM – QUARTIER HAUSSONVILLE-BLANDAN  Nancy, France
    Competition 2006
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  • 280 AUDITORIUM DU JURA  Courgenay, Switzerland
    Project 2005-2006
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  • 279 1111 LINCOLN ROAD  Miami Beach, Florida, USA
    Project 2005-2008, realization 2008-2010
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  • 278 HOUSING STUDY  Herrliberg, Switzerland
    Project 2005
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  • 277 PARRISH ART MUSEUM  Water Mill, New York, USA
    Project 2005-2008
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  • 276 HOUSE ABOVE A LAKE  Germany
    Project and realization 2005-2008
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  • 275 HOTEL CASINO  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    Project 2005
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  • 274 TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, STAGE DESIGN  Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany
    Project and realization 2005-2006; Premiere 8 April 2006
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  • 273 RÍO MANZANARES  Madrid, Spain
    Competition 2005
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  • 272 NEW COURT  London, UK
    Competition 2005
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  • 271 TORRES BURGOS  Burgos, Spain
    Project 2005–2007
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  • 270 URBAN STUDY HEUWAAGE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2005
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  • 269 BEIJING FILM ACADEMY QINGDAO  Qingdao, China
    Project 2005
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  • 268 MK2, CITY OF IMAGE AND SOUND  Beijing, China
    Project 2005
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  • 267 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project and realization 2005-2006
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  • 266 BURGOS MASTER PLAN  Burgos, Spain
    Project 2004-2006
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  • 265 RINDERHALLEN ST. MARX  Vienna, Austria
    Project 2004
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  • 264 DONAU CITY TOWER 2  Vienna, Austria
    Project 2004-2005
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  • 263 THE TATE MODERN PROJECT  London, UK
    Competition 2005, project 2005-2012, realization 2010-2016
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  • 262 CASINO LAS VEGAS  Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    Project 2004
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  • 261 JINHUA STRUCTURE  Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China
    Project and realization 2004–2006
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  • 260 ST. PAUL'S WAY  London, UK
    Project 2004-2007
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  • 259 LEARNING CENTRE, ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE  Ecublens, Switzerland
    Competition 2004
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  • 258 TPT, THREE PARTNERSHIP TOWER  Beijing, China
    Project 2004-2005
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  • 257 MAAG TOWER  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 2004
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  • 256 SWEET DREAMS, LANDSCAPE #1 AND TOOLS #1, EDITION 1  Basel, Switzerland
    Project and production 2004
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  • 255 HOCKER  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2004, Production by Vitra since 2005
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  • 254 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA  Beijing, China
    Competition 2004
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  • 253 40 BOND, APARTMENT BUILDING  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2004-2005, realization 2006-2007
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  • 252 HOUSE ON THE CLIFF  Ibiza, Spain
    Project 2004-2005
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  • 251 BIS ENHANCEMENTS  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2005–2008
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  • 250 HERZOG & DE MEURON, NO. 250, AN EXHIBITION  Schaulager Basel, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
    Exhibition 8 May – 26 September 2004
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  • 249 NEW STADT-CASINO BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2004
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  • 248 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  Bickleigh, UK
    Project 2003-2005, realization 2005-2006
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  • 247 TREE VILLAGE CAMPUS  Beijing, China
    Project 2003-2004
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  • 246 TATE MODERN MASTER PLAN  London, UK
    Project 2003–2004
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  • 245 ST. JAKOB TOWER  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2003-2005, realization 2006-2008
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  • 244 UNIVERSITY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2003
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  • 243 HELVETIA, EXTENSION OF HEAD OFFICE, WEST WING  St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Competition 1989, project 2003-2004
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  • 242 SAINT-LOUIS URBAN STUDY  Saint-Louis/Hésingue, France
    Project 2003-2004
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  • 241 CENTRE POMPIDOU METZ  Metz, France
    Competition 2003
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  • 240 CIUDAD DEL FLAMENCO  Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
    Competition 2003, project 2004-2006, realization 2005-2011
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  • 239 LONDON OLYMPICS MASTER PLAN 2012  London, UK
    Competition 2003
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  • 238 VILLENTHERMEN BAD GLEICHENBERG  Bad Gleichenberg, Austria
    Project 2003–2004
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  • 237 RÉMY AND MICHÈLE ZAUGG FOUNDATION  Porrentruy, Switzerland
    Project 2003
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  • 236 JINDONG NEW DEVELOPMENT AREA JINHUA  Zhejiang, China
    Project 2003-2006
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  • 235 AVIC-PLAZA HIGHRISE BUILDING  Shenzhen, China
    Project 2003
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  • 234 COUNTRY HOUSE  Ascot, UK
    Competition 2003
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  • 233 HOSPITAL DE LA ALBAIDA  Cordoba, Spain
    Project 2003-2004
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  • 232 GREENGATE HOUSE  London, UK
    Competition 2003, project 2003-2005
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  • 231 PROJECT STUDY  Switzerland
    Project 2003–2005
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  • 230 ELBPHILHARMONIE HAMBURG  Hamburg, Germany
    Concept 2001, concept phase 2003, project 2004-2014, realization 2006-2016
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  • 229 ENGINE DEPOT AUF DEM WOLF, EXPANSION  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2003
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  • 228 URBAN STUDY  Shantou, China
    Project 2003
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  • 227 SCHATZALP  Davos, Switzerland
    Project 2003, 2005
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  • 226 NATIONAL STADIUM, THE MAIN STADIUM FOR THE 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES  Beijing, China
    Competition 2002–2003, project 2003–2005, realization 2003–2008
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  • 225 ROCHE BUILDING 95  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2003-2005, realization 2004-2006
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  • 224 ANTWERP DRY DOCKS, CULTURAL CENTRE  Antwerp, Belgium
    Competition 2002
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  • 223 URBAN STUDY  Shantou, China
    Project 2002–2003
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  • 222 ST. JAKOB PASSERELLEN  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2002
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  • 221 CONTRIBUTION TO LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 8. MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA: NEXT  Arsenale, Venice, Italy
    Exhibition 3 September – 3 November 2002
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  • 220 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  London, UK
    Project 2002-2003, realization 2003-2004
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  • 219 STUDY HOCHSCHULPLANUNG BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2002-2003
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  • 218 RICOLA PRODUCTION, EXPANSION  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project Study 2003–2004
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  • 217 MERCURY VILLAGE  Moscow, Russia
    Project 2002
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  • 216 THE SHAIK ZAYED BIN SULTAN AL NAHYAN MOSQUE  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Project 2002
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  • 215 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY  Los Angeles, California, USA
    Competition 2002
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  • 214 SÜDPARK BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2002, project 2004–2011, realization 2008–2012
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  • 213 MESSE BASEL – NEW HALL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2004-2012, realization 2010-2013
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  • 212 CENTRE DE SERTISSAGE  Cormondrèche, Switzerland
    Project 2002
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  • 211 PALACIO DE LA MÚSICA Y LAS ARTES ESCÉNICAS  Vitoria, Spain
    Competition 2002
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  • 210 FELDMÜHLEPLATZ  Düsseldorf, Germany
    Project 2002
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  • 209 STUDY SINGERSTRASSE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2002
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  • 208 HOUSE IN BOTTMINGEN  Bottmingen, Switzerland
    Project 2002
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  • 207 HOTEL ASTORIA LUZERN  Lucerne, Switzerland
    Project 2002, realization 2005-2007
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  • 206 SWISS CHURCH  London, UK
    Project 2001
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  • 205 ALLIANZ ARENA  München-Fröttmaning, Germany
    Competition 2001-2002, project 2002-2004, realization 2002-2005
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  • 204 BASEL DREISPITZAREAL, URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2001–2002, 2003
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  • 203 DAVINES HEAD OFFICE  Parma, Italy
    Project 2002-2003
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  • 202 URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2001-2005
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  • 201 CAIXAFORUM MADRID  Madrid, Spain
    Project 2001-2003, realization 2003-2008
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  • 200 MUSEUM DER KULTUREN  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2001-2010, realization 2008-2010
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  • 199 EXPANSION OF THE CANTONAL LIBRARY AARGAU  Aarau, Switzerland
    Project 2001-2002
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  • 198 HOUSE ON LAKE TEGERNSEE  Tegernsee, Germany
    Project 2001
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  • 197 URBAN STUDY  Germany
    Project 2001
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  • 196 EXPANSION OF THE KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2001
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  • 195 ST. JOHANNS-RHEINWEG  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2001-2007, realization 2005-2007
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  • 194 WORKS IN PROGRESS, PROJECTS BY HERZOG & DE MEURON AND REM KOOLHAAS/OMA  Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
    Exhibition 2 March – 8 April 2001
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  • 193 ST. JOHANNS-VORSTADT, OFFICE CONVERSION  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2001, realization 2002
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  • 192 OSLOSTRASSE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION  Münchenstein, Switzerland
    Project 2001, realization 2001
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  • 191 TATE MODERN  Modifications, London, UK
    Project 2001, realization 2001-2002, 2005
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  • 190.2 MUSEU BLAU, MUSEU DE CIÈNCIES NATURALS DE BARCELONA  Barcelona, Spain
    Project 2009-2010, realization 2010-2012
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  • 190 FORUM 2004 BUILDING AND PLAZA  Barcelona, Spain
    Competition 2000, project 2001-2002, realization 2002-2004
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  • 189 HOSANNA WINERY  Pomerol, France
    Project 2001-2003
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  • 188 CONCERT HALL, EUROPEAN MONTH OF MUSIC  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2000-2001, realization 2001
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  • 187 PRADA LEVANELLA, WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRE  Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy
    Project 2000-2002, 2004
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  • 186 HERZOG & DE MEURON. IN PROCESS  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Exhibition 4 November 2000 – 11 February 2001
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  • 185 PRADA NEW YORK, HEADQUARTERS PRADA USA  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2000-2002
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  • 184 PRADA LE CURE, PRODUCTION CENTRE AND WAREHOUSE  Terranuova, Arezzo, Italy
    Project 2000-2001
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  • 183 HERZOG & DE MEURON, ARCHÉOLOGIE DE L’IMAGINAIRE  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
    Exhibition 23 October 2002 – 6 April 2003
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  • 182 PLAZA DE ESPAÑA  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
    Competition 1998, master plan 1999-2001, project 2002-2005, realization 2006-2008
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  • 181 OFFICE BUILDING NEAR BASEL  Switzerland
    Project 2000-2001, realization 2002-2003
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  • 180 ELSÄSSERTOR II, OFFICE AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 2000, realization 2002-2005
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  • 179 SCHÄLLEMÄTTELI URBAN DESIGN  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 2000
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  • 178 PRADA AOYAMA  Tokyo, Japan
    Project 2000-2002, realization 2001-2003
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  • 177 ASTOR PLACE HOTEL  New York, New York, USA
    Project 2000-2001
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  • 176 RÉFECTOIRE  Pomerol, France
    Project 2001, realization 2002
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 175 WALKER ART CENTER, EXPANSION  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Project 1999-2002, realization 2003-2005
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 174 HELVETIA, EXTENSION OF HEAD OFFICE, NORTH WING  St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Competition 1989, project 1999-2001, realization 2001-2004
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 173 DE YOUNG MUSEUM  Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
    Competition 1999, project 2000-2002, realization 2002-2005
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 172 STUDIOS FOR TWO ARTISTS  Düsseldorf, Germany
    Project 1998-2000, realization 2000-2002
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 171 JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART  Austin, Texas, USA
    Competition 1998
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  • 170 REFURBISHMENT OF AN OFFICE FLOOR  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1998
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  • 169 SCHAULAGER, LAURENZ FOUNDATION  Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1998-1999, realization 2000-2003
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 168 HELVETIA, EXTENSION OF HEAD OFFICE, SOUTH AND EAST WING  St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Competition 1989, project 1998-1999, realization 2000–2002
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  • 167 HOUSE ABOVE LAKE CONSTANCE  Lake Constance, Switzerland
    Project 1998-2005, realization 2001-2005
    • > TEXT
  • 166 IKMZ BTU COTTBUS, INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA CENTRE, BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY  Cottbus, Germany
    Competition 1993, project 1998-1999, 2001, realization 2001-2004
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  • 165 REHAB BASEL  Clinic for Neurorehabilitation and Paraplegiology
    Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1998, project 1998-1999, realization 1999-2002, transformation and extension 2018-2020
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  • 164 TEA, TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
    Project 1999-2007, realization 2002-2008
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  • 163 PUERTO DE SANTA CRUZ  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
    Competition 1998, project 1999-2004, realization 2007-
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  • 162 TRADE FAIR BASEL, NEW TOWER AND SQUARE  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1998
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  • 161 MULTIPLEX CINEMA HEUWAAGE  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1997-1998, project 1998, 2000
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  • 160 LABAN DANCE CENTRE  London, UK
    Competition 1997, project 1998-1999, realization 2000-2003
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 159 CRYSTAL RING  Realization 1997
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 158 KRAMLICH RESIDENCE AND COLLECTION  Oakville, Napa Valley, California, USA
    Project 1997-2002, 2004-2008, realization 2007-2015
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 157 ARCHITECTURES OF HERZOG & DE MEURON, PORTRAITS BY THOMAS RUFF  TN Probe Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan
    Exhibition 22 November 1996 – 9 January 1997
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  • 156 HERZOG & DE MEURON, ZEICHNUNGEN DRAWINGS  Peter Blum Gallery Soho, New York, New York, USA
    Exhibition 31 May – 31 July 1997
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  • 155 EXPANSION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART  New York, New York, USA
    Competition 1997
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 154 RICOLA MARKETING BUILDING  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 1997, realization 1998-1999
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 153 EXPANSION OF THE AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS  Aarau, Switzerland
    Competition 1996-1997, project 1998-1999, realization 2001-2003
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  • 152 THE VIRTUAL HOUSE  New York, New York, USA
    Project 1996-1997
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 151 KÜPPERSMÜHLE MUSEUM, GROTHE COLLECTION  Duisburg, Germany
    Project 1997, realization 1997-1999
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  • 150 THE OBERRHEINGRABEN  Region Oberrhein, Germany
    Study 1996-1997
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  • 149 RUE DES SUISSES APARTMENT BUILDINGS  Paris, France
    Competition 1996, project 1997-1998, realization 1999-2000
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  • 148 ST. JAKOB-PARK BASEL, FOOTBALL STADIUM, COMMERCIAL CENTRE AND RESIDENCE FOR THE ELDERLY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1996, 1998, realization 1998-2002
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  • 147 THE ARCHITECT AS SEISMOGRAPH, CONTRIBUTION TO LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 6. MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA: SENSING THE FUTURE  International Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy
    Exhibition 15 September – 17 November 1996
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  • 146 SITE STUDIES FOR THE GABA-AREAL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1996, 2000
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  • 145 ART BOX BONN, MUSEUM FOR THE GROTHE COLLECTION  Bonn, Germany
    Project 1996-1997
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  • 144 ST. JAKOB STADIUM  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1996
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  • 143 FÜNF HÖFE, FIVE COURTYARDS FOR THE MUNICH CITY CENTRE  Munich, Germany
    Competition 1994, Project 1997-1998, realization 1999-2003
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  • 142 HERRNSTRASSE COMMERCIAL AND APARTMENT BUILDING  Munich, Germany
    Project 1996, realization 1998-2000
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 141 SCHAUSPIELHAUS ZÜRICH, CULTURAL CENTRE, THEATRE WORKSHOPS AND MUSEUM  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 1996
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  • 140 SATELLITE SIGNAL BOX  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1995-1996, realization 1998-1999
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  • 139 EXPANSION OF EURO AIRPORT BASEL-MULHOUSE-FREIBURG  Mulhouse, France
    Competition 1995
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  • 138 UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY CLINIC  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1995
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  • 137 DOMINUS WINERY  Yountville, Napa Valley, California, USA
    Project 1995, realization 1996-1998
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  • 136 WHITE FOUNTAIN AT THE RÜDENPLATZ  Urban Study, Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1995, project 2000
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  • 135 HOUSE IN ARLESHEIM  Arlesheim, Switzerland
    Project 1995
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  • 134 WOOD HOUSE  Stuttgart, Germany
    Project 1995
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  • 133 STUDIO RÉMY ZAUGG  Mulhouse, France
    Project 1995, realization 1995-1996
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 132 INSTITUTE FOR HOSPITAL PHARMACEUTICALS  Rossettiareal, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1995, realization 1997-1998
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  • 131 CARICATURE AND CARTOON MUSEUM, CONVERSION AND NEW BUILDING  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1994, realization 1994-1996
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  • 130 HERZOG & DE MEURON, UNE EXPOSITION, CONCEIVED BY RÉMY ZAUGG  Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    Exhibition 8 March – 22 May 1995
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  • 129 DRESDNER BANK PARISERPLATZ  Berlin, Germany
    Competition 1995
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  • 128 HOUSE IN LEYMEN  Leymen, Haut-Rhin, France
    Project 1996, realization 1997
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  • 127 ENKA SCHOOL  Istanbul, Turkey
    Project 1994
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  • 126 TATE MODERN  London, UK
    Competition 1994-1995, project 1995-1997, realization 1998-2000
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  • 125 BORNEO AMSTERDAM, HOUSING PROJECT IN A HARBOUR AREA  Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Project 1994
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  • 124 RHEINHAFEN WESTQUAI, HOUSING PROJECT IN A HARBOUR AREA  Basel, Switzerland
    Study 1994
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  • 123 DREIROSENBRÜCKE, TWO-LEVEL HIGHWAY-BRIDGE  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1994-1995
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  • 122 SITE SANTA FE, MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTRE  Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
    Study 1994
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  • 121 GEORGSPLATZ COMMERCIAL BUILDING  Dresden, Germany
    Feasibility study 1994
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  • 120 DAS SUVA HAUS IN BASEL  Architekturgalerie Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
    Exhibition 25 September – 30 October 1994
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  • 119 CENTRAL SIGNAL BOX  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1994, project 1995, realization 1998-1999
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  • 118 URBAN DESIGN FOR THE SITE OF THE METALLGESELLSCHAFT REUTERWEG  Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Study 1994
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  • 117 SONNENHALDE SANATORIUM  Riehen, Switzerland
    Competition 1994
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  • 116 SWISS PAVILION  Contribution to Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. 22. Ruptura de Suportes
    Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
    Exhibition 12th October – 11th December 1994
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  • 115 PRIVATE RESIDENCE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1994, realization 1994-1995
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  • 114 VISCHER HOUSE  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1994, realization 1994, demolition 2011
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  • 113 LANDOLT HOUSE  Riehen, Switzerland
    Project 1994, realization 1994
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  • 112 EXTENSION OF KOHLENBERG-HOLBEIN-GYMNASIUM  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1994
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  • 111 AMPHITRYON, TWO OFFICE BUILDINGS FOR THE BAYERISCHE HYPOTHEKEN- UND VEREINSBANK  Frankfurt a. M., Germany
    Competition 1994, project 1995, 1997-1998
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  • 110 NEUSTÄDTER FELD, REDEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRICT OF PREFABRICATED HOUSING  Magdeburg, Germany
    Project 1994
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  • 109 RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIVER RHINE  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1993-1994
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  • 108 HYPO-BANK THEATINERSTRASSE, MIXED-USE COMMERCIAL QUARTER  Munich, Germany
    Competition 1994, project 1995
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  • 107 APARTMENT AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING FOR THE DRESDNER BANK  Eberswalde, Germany
    Project 1994, 1997
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  • 106 EBERSWALDE TECHNICAL SCHOOL SEMINAR BUILDING  Eberswalde, Germany
    Project 1994-1995, realization 1996-1997
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  • 105 EBERSWALDE TECHNICAL SCHOOL LIBRARY  Eberswalde, Germany
    Project 1994-1996, realization 1997-1999
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  • 104 ROCHE ADMINISTRATIVE AND TRAINING BUILDING  Sisseln, Switzerland
    Project 1994
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  • 103 CONTRIBUTION TO DIE BANK, THREE ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTS FOR THE FUTURE  Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Exhibition 3-25 September 1994
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  • 102 DORNACHERPLATZ COMMERCIAL AND APARTMENT BUILDING  Solothurn, Switzerland
    Project 1993, 1995, 1997, realization 1998-2000
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  • 101 COOP SHOPPING CENTER, HOTEL AND APARTMENTS ON THE WARTECK-AREAL  Muttenz, Switzerland
    Competition 1993-1994
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  • 100 ROCHE PHARMA-RESEARCH BUILDING 92  Roche Basel Site, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1993-1995, realization 1998-2000
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  • 099 KEMPINSKI RESIDENCE, COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND HOTEL  Dresden, Germany
    Competition 1993
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  • 098 LIBRARY AND MASTER PLAN OF THE BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY  Cottbus, Germany
    Competition 1993
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  • 097 THREE APARTMENT BUILDINGS  Starnberg, Germany
    Project 1993
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  • 096 KOECHLIN HOUSE  Riehen, Switzerland
    Realization 1993-1994
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  • 095 MASTER PLAN FOR THE KRUPPGELÄNDE  Essen, Germany
    Competition 1992
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  • 094 RICOLA-EUROPE SA, PRODUCTION AND STORAGE BUILDING  Mulhouse-Brunstatt, France
    Project 1992, realization 1993
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  • 093 PRODUCTION BUILDING, FLOWTEC SA  Cernay, France
    Project 1992
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  • 092 APARTMENT BUILDING ON THE RHINE RIVER  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1992
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  • 091 COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND MASTER PLAN FOR SBS-PERREY  Delémont, Switzerland
    Competition 1992
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  • 090 TWO LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITÉ DE JUSSIEU  Paris, France
    Competition 1992
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  • 089 TWO EXHIBITION SPACES FOR CONTEMPORARY ART  Musée de Semur-en-Auxois, Semur-en-Auxois, France
    Project 1992
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  • 088 CONTRIBUTION TO HANOVER EXPO 2000  Hanover, Germany
    Competition 1992
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  • 087 BERLIN PULVERMÜHLE, HOUSING PROJECT  Berlin, Germany
    Competition 1992
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  • 086 FRANKFURT OSTHAFEN, URBAN STUDY, CONTRIBUTION TO WOHNEN UND ARBEITEN AM FLUSS. PERSPEKTIVEN FÜR DEN FRANKFURTER OSTHAFEN  Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Exhibition 20 June – 26 July 1992
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  • 085 OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL IM SCHLIPF  Riehen, Switzerland
    Project 1990-1992
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  • 084 LABORATORY BUILDING, NEW FACADE FOR BUILDING 411  Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1992
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  • 083 ALTERATIONS TO HOTEL ADMIRAL  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1992
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  • 082 STUDIO FREI  Weil am Rhein, Germany
    Project 1992
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  • 081 ONE BUILDING FOR THE MUSEUMS OF THE 20TH CENTURY  Munich, Germany
    Competition 1992
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  • 080 BEUNDENFELD URBAN DESIGN  Bern, Switzerland
    Project 1991-1992
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  • 079 ANTIPODES II, STUDENT HOUSING  Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    Project 1991
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  • 078 SILS-CUNCAS SETTLEMENT DESIGN  Sils, Engadin, Switzerland
    Competition 1991
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  • 077 “EINE STADT IM WERDEN?” URBAN STUDY  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1991-1992
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  • 076 CONTRIBUTION TO LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 5. MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DI ARCHITETTURA  Swiss Pavilion, Venice, Italy
    Exhibition 8 September – 6 October 1991
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  • 075 ARTS CENTRE  Blois, France
    Competition 1991
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  • 074 ARCHITEKTUR VON HERZOG & DE MEURON IM KUNSTVEREIN MÜNCHEN  Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
    Exhibition 1 March – 7 April 1991
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  • 073 VIESENHÄUSER HOF URBAN DESIGN  Stuttgart-Mühlhausen, Germany
    Competition 1991
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  • 072 PRIVATE COLLECTION  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 1991
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  • 071 CONTRIBUTION TO BERLIN MORGEN. IDEEN FÜR DAS HERZ EINER GROSSSTADT  Berlin Zentrum
    Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
    Exhibition 26 January – 24 March 1991
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  • 070 CONTRIBUTION TO OUVERTURES  L’Entrepôt, Galerie Arc en Rêve, Centre d’Architecture
    Bordeaux, France
    Exhibition 22 October 1989 – 6 January 1990
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  • 069 HERZOG & DE MEURON  Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya
    Barcelona, Spain
    Exhibition 16 October – 9 November 1990
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  • 068 TWO CARPETS DESIGNED FOR TEPPICHFABRIK MELCHNAU  Langenthal, Switzerland
    Project 1991
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  • 067 ALTES FLUGFELD, URBAN DESIGN  Karlsruhe, Germany
    Project 1990
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  • 066 FLOWTEC OFFICE AND LABORATORY BUILDING  Reinach, Switzerland
    Project 1990
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  • 065 ELSÄSSERTOR OFFICE AND CARGO BUILDING  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1990
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  • 064 ANTIPODES I, STUDENT HOUSING, UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE  Dijon, France
    Project 1990, realization 1991-1992
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  • 063 ARCHITEKTUR DENKFORM  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
    Zurich, Switzerland
    Exhibition 27 April – 10 May 1990
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  • 062 RAILWAY BUILDING SERVICES CENTRE AUF DEM WOLF  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1990
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 061 EXTENSION OF OFFICES, STORAGE AND LABORATORY, SOLCO  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1990-1991
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  • 060 MASTER PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE  Dijon, France
    Project 1989-1990
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 059 INTERPRETING THE PLACE  9H Gallery, London, UK
    Exhibition 6 October – 12 November 1989
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  • 058 EXTENSION OF HEAD OFFICES FOR HELVETIA  St. Gallen, Switzerland
    Competition 1989, project 1990-1991
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  • 057 GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH  Zurich, Switzerland
    Competition 1989
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  • 056 SAMMLUNG GOETZ, MUNICH. MUSEUM FOR A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART  Munich, Germany
    Project 1989-1990, realization 1991-1992
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  • 055 PFAFFENHOLZ SPORTS CENTRE  Saint-Louis, France
    Project 1989-1990, realization 1992-1993
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  • 054 DESIGN MUSEUM  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1989-1990
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  • 053 RICOLA FACTORY ADDITION AND GLAZED CANOPY  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 1989, realization 1989-1991
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  • 052 LUZERNERRING APARTMENT BUILDINGS  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1989
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  • 051 PARK FOR THE AVENIDA DIAGONAL  Barcelona, Spain
    Competition 1989
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  • 050 SUVA HOUSE, EXTENSION AND ALTERATION OF AN APARTMENT AND OFFICE BUILDING  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1988-1990, realization 1991-1993
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  • 049 SIGNAL BOX AUF DEM WOLF  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1989, realization 1991-1994
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  • 048 RAILWAY ENGINE DEPOT AUF DEM WOLF  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1989, realization 1991-1995
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 047 ARCHITEKTUR DENKFORM  Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
    Exhibition 1 October – 20 November 1988
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 046 SANDOZ TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, NOVARTIS INDUSTRIAL AREA  Basel, Switzerland
    Projects 1988, 1991, realization 1993
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  • 045 REFURBISHMENT OF THE GABA BLOCK  Basel, Switzerland
    Projects 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988
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  • 044 APARTMENT BUILDING AND NURSING HOME SCHWARZ PARK  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1987-1988
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  • 043 HOUSING PILOTENGASSE  Vienna, Austria
    Project 1987-1988, realization 1989-1992
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 042 SANDOZ OFFICE BUILDING 430, NOVARTIS INDUSTRIAL AREA  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1987
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  • 041 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM  Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    Competition 1987
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  • 040 MUSEUMS COMPLEX  Vienna, Austria
    Competition 1987
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  • 039 CONVERSION AND RENOVATION OF TWO HOUSES  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1986, realization 1987
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  • 038 RICOLA STORAGE BUILDING  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 1986, realization 1987
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  • 037 OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL AM MÜHLETEICH  Riehen, Switzerland
    Project 1986-1987
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  • 036 CLADDING FOR A HOUSE  Fischingen, Germany
    Partial realization 1986
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  • 035 E, D, E, N, PAVILION  Hotel Eden, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
    Competition 1986, realization 1987
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  • 034 HOUSE FOR AN ART COLLECTOR  Therwil, Switzerland
    Project 1985, realization 1986
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  • 033 CONVERSION AND RENOVATION OF LABORATORY BUILDING 91 FOR SANDOZ, NOVARTIS INDUSTRIAL AREA  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1985, realization 1986
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  • 032 CONVERSION AND RENOVATION OF A BUILDING IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE  Laufen, Switzerland
    Project 1985, realization 1986
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  • 031 APARTMENT AND OFFICE BUILDING SCHWITTER  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1985, project 1985, realization 1987–1988
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  • 030 RESTAURANT FOR THE BASEL ZOO  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1985
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  • 029 APARTMENT BUILDING ALONG A PARTY WALL  Hebelstrasse, Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1984, realization 1987-1988
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  • 028 CONTRIBUTION TO L'ARCHITECTURE EST UN JEU ... MAGNIFIQUE; LEGO HOUSE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU  Paris, France
    Exhibition 10 July – 26 August 1985
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  • 027 PLYWOOD HOUSE  Bottmingen, Switzerland
    Project 1984, realization 1985
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  • 026 CONVERSION AND RENOVATION OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING  Birsfelden, Switzerland
    Project 1984, realization 1985
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  • 025 APARTMENT AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING SCHÜTZENMATTSTRASSE  Basel, Switzerland
    Competition 1984-1985, project 1991, realization 1992-1993
    • > TEXT | 
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  • 024 CONVERSION AND RENOVATION OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING  Basel, Switzerland
    Project 1984, realization 1985
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  • 023 VISP THEATRE  Visp, Switzerland
    Competition 1984
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  • 022 HOUSE FOR A VETERINARY SURGEON  Dagmersellen/Lucerne, Switzerland
    Project 1983, realization 1984
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400 SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2012 - CONVERSATION

A conversation
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
with Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Julia Peyton-Jones:  The closeness of the friendship and working collaboration between the three of you is very clear to see. Hans Ulrich and I also work together closely in tandem, and people always want to know who does what. Does the ‘who does what?’ apply to your work on the Serpentine Pavilion?

Jacques Herzog:  It’s been more than ten years since we first met Weiwei in Basel, and we all travelled together to China due to his friendship and generosity and interest in bringing something new to his country. The Serpentine Pavilion is our first project together in the West. It was a very natural feeling to work on it together. It was as if we’d never stopped collaborating and that, I think, is very important. The project has nothing forced about it, nothing artificial and nothing where you could say ‘This is Weiwei and this is Pierre and Jacques.’ It all comes out of our common experience of what we’ve seen and what interests us and what we’ve learnt from all these different trips. That’s how I, at least, have experienced it.

Ai Weiwei:  My experience of working with Jacques and Pierre is that we never think separately. It’s like three soldiers in the war – and that’s a good feeling: we have a constant understanding of each others’ practice. We never have any arguments during our collaborations. We always come together and create the support for the whole idea, making it possible. It’s always a very enriching experience for us, very encouraging. There’s no ego or any kind of need to assert one’s identity because from the very beginning we said that we were working, the three of us together, on a new identity: we’re working together to create a new style. So there’s this connection that’s very special. It’s also difficult for us to see art and architecture as separate. For me they’re quite inseparable. And that’s why I have an interest in this kind of activity.

Hans Ulrich Obrist:  The ‘Bird’s Nest’ Beijing National Stadium [commissioned for the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games] is one of your great architectural collaborations. How was this idea born? Was there a moment when you had the epiphany or was it a gradual process that led to this masterpiece?

Ai Weiwei:  The stadium was a moment of excitement because it was a utopic event, from an architectural point of view and from a political point of view. We all understood that we had to make something that was powerful and that would remain as a long-lasting monument. So we tried to do something that was very different from the previous understanding of stadiums, and we wanted to give it a strong signature. We came to an idea very quickly; we always get to the idea very quickly, because we all kind of agree. 

Jacques Herzog:  The speed and the mystery of collaboration is key to our working together. Pierre and I have been collaborating since our childhood, so to us it felt natural to collaborate with an artist. We’d already done this with Thomas Ruff and with Rémy Zaugg. And so Weiwei was just a new element in our life – a very precious one, however! Ideas happen on a common ground and then it’s not A + B + C, but a dynamic that’s more complex. And the fundamental layout of a concept is indeed sometimes very fast. It’s like the blinking of an eye – the feeling that someone loves what you’re saying or that you love what the other person’s saying and that encourages you to go deeper. It was the same with the Serpentine Pavilion.

Julia Peyton-Jones:  What’s so interesting about our site is that it now has an eleven-year history of Pavilions, and what you’ve chosen to do is to look back to the archaeology of past Pavilions and create a kind of fiction – it’s a fiction based on fact, but nonetheless a fiction. This access to the old and the new is the pivotal element of this project. How did the idea of making reference to the past, the present and therefore also the future, come about?

Ai Weiwei:  This idea about the archaeology of past Serpentine Pavilions comes down to the fact that architecture is a total effort, as a history and as a human structure. We tried to make something very essential, very visceral; we wanted to put ourselves in a position where we could have a conversation with other people’s efforts and to make a very clean and understandable gesture out of this.

Julia Peyton-Jones:  Did this approach to architecture as a total effort feed into your thoughts regarding the design of the Pavilion?

Jacques Herzog:  We all three of us shared the idea that we didn’t want to make another object or another thing in Kensington Gardens, but that we wanted to literally build a foundation for something different, something new. And the interesting paradox is that this foundation for something new or different is exactly what has been done before. The Pavilion design is very important in our fundamental approach, which is a re-thinking of what a pavilion actually is, or what a stadium actually is. I think that’s probably what keeps us going through all kinds of projects: what actually is this thing we have to build? There’s so much architecture and so much art and so many things in the world that if you don’t do this radical questioning then you end up in endless repetition.

Pierre de Meuron:  We came to a very quick agreement on what we didn’t want to do. From the first moment, we knew, all three of us, that we didn’t want to fall into the trap of doing another fancy object, because this has been done in previous years. So we had two possibilities: one was to use platonic forms, which are universal: a sphere, a pyramid or a cube. But this wasn’t successful. But this is the benefit of working together as Jacques and myself work together as a pair: always having someone to correct you or give you another answer or another direction to the process. This avoids getting stuck, or maybe having ideas or elements that are too personal. And now it was just a case of enlarging this two-way relationship into a triangular relationship with Weiwei. So having abandoned the platonic volumes, we then became interested in finding geometries or forms of something that was already there but was, on the other hand, no longer there, since it had been demolished. So things are virtually there but no longer physically there. We found out that there were some traces underground that were not visible. So we were interested in discovering and analysing what had been done in previous years, and in revealing those traces and using them as generating forces for our design. After having made this choice to work with those traces, it was a matter of deciding which traces to select for our final design. We’d already spoken about not doing an object, not even doing an object proposal. That was one thing and the other thing was this fantastic site in the park. And when the first ideas started coming, we were more interested in doing something hidden, something that wasn’t visible, something underground. Of course, this wasn’t going to be easy, but it was a very important start for the project – to have it below ground. Then it emerged that it wasn’t very realistic because of the ground water and other problems. But this idea to have it buried continued to carry the whole process of exchange of ideas. And then we decided to have it half buried and to cover it with a roof to protect the space.

Hans Ulrich Obrist:  Cork has the versatility to be shaped and formed and it is often used in making architectural models. Why did you use cork to line the interior of the structure?

Pierre de Meuron:  Architecture is a discipline that speaks to people through all their senses. It isn’t only visual but tactile and acoustic, and we were interested in having different elements in the Pavilion. The water on top is ephemeral, reflecting the sky and the light from above, and all the surroundings. The steel structure to carry that water and to protect the people under the Pavilion is heavy. So where the people touch and move around within the volumes of the space, they need to have this softer material, something warm, so that they can sit on something that’s warm and soft with a very tactile quality.

Hans Ulrich Obrist:  This idea of an archaeology of the past connects with the topic of memory. We live in a digital age where information grows exponentially, but that doesn’t necessarily produce more memory. We could even say that sometimes amnesia goes hand in hand with this information explosion. I remember having a conversation with Weiwei in Beijing about memory, in relation to this obliteration of moments in the past. And there is a wonderful text [which appeared on Ai Weiwei’s blog], where you talked about bringing your mother’s house back to its previous condition. Now, for your Pavilion, memory plays a big role: it’s the memory of the previous Pavilions and the memory of the site. Could you tell us what memory means for both of your practices in general? And beyond that, what memory means in relation to your Pavilion?

Ai Weiwei:  In the very beginning we wanted to look at the psychology of the Serpentine Pavilions that have repeatedly been taken down, which we saw as being like an act of total architecture, or a stage – a stage that was repeatedly dealing with architecture. The past structures might have a very different energy and a very different background, but still they shared the same kind of understanding, and we wanted to use our understanding of it to make a Pavilion that could conclude this kind of total effort, as well as showing the tension between the very different styles and the effort to re-announce it. So we saw the past as a psychological condition, like drawing many layers on one piece of paper. And normally that isn’t an architectural quality. But we felt the need to create something very different.

Jacques Herzog:  As both Pierre and Weiwei have said, because we’re a team, not only the two of us, but also with Weiwei, our architecture becomes something that’s free from a personal style: a style-less conception, or a concept based approach. I think this is typical of Weiwei’s working method as much as it is ours. We’ve always tried to replace style with concept. So memory is just an excuse. Is it also a real interest? I think it is in the sense that how a building touches the ground is a fundamental question in architecture, something that goes back to the very first human structures. Also in classical architecture, the foundation is a key element. And to free the object from the earth is a key issue in modernism and Constructivism – all those flying objects also deal with the same issue. When you look into Weiwei’s work, you see that he’s been obsessed with digging into the ground in some of his earlier projects...

Ai Weiwei:  Of course, this desire to make something underground – it’s like any child: they want to dig up the sand or play with mud; it is an absolutely essential human activity.

Jacques Herzog:  ...and we can find it in our own history already in the early work of the 1970s and the 80s. One of the first projects that we did that became known was a proposal for a fountain in the Market Square in Basel [1979–87] where we dug into the ground and revealed a hidden river. This was key for understanding how the city was originally built and how life was generated around that river, all of which had been forgotten. Revealing the medieval river completely transformed the perception of that part of the contemporary city.

Hans Ulrich Obrist:  The historian Eric Hobsbawm famously said: ‘I belong to a profession whose business it is to protest against forgetting – which also knows that memory is complex and sometimes dangerous’. Very often the future is built on the fragments of the past, so we need memories, but at the same time, we can’t create work based only on the past because it can be suffocating. What is the relationship between remembering and forgetting your work?

Jacques Herzog:  This could be a very interesting and fundamentally human question. Without memory, we cannot build a future, but too much memory is a burden. This is a very fruitful paradox.

Ai Weiwei:  I think that we have to realise that we’re a product of information and since human survival is very practical, the most reliable information is gained from history that has been collectively approved. At the same time, of course, as humans we have a problem because we’re always trying to find another imaginative possibility, which is about trying to overcome the tension between living and dying – the idea that you’re there and then you’re not there. This is so simple; we’re all fascinated by this and it’s why we all have to see if we’re any different. So every project, if it’s a good project, has to have this kind of mysterious quality that makes us wonder. And if it’s not a profound concern and becomes too superficial and too shallow, then we’re simply talking about the past or tradition, which isn’t interesting at all. We have to find a new possibility, a new way, a new definition in some kind of common ground.

Jacques Herzog:  This could be a very fruitful and productive question for the Marathon discussions in the Fall. [Every year the Pavilion is host to the Park Nights programme, and in 2012 this culminates in the staging of the Memory Marathon, which draws its inspiration from the Pavilion.] It would be interesting to involve people who can talk about this from a scientific point of view and not just art or literature. As you said in your question, it is a kind of paradox: it’s very dangerous in some ways that we tend to forget things and make the same errors that we made in the past and if you look at human history it’s tragic that the same patterns come up again and again. Nevertheless, history repeats many things, but not exactly the same way. With our Pavilion design, of course, we use the traces of all these quite wonderful objects that have been created in the past, each of them with much love and with much talent. And I think what will happen is that people will come to the Serpentine and many of them will have seen the Pavilion last year or three years ago or five years ago and they’ll try to read the traces. They’ll somehow reconstruct history or memory, trying to remember what they’ve seen here. So what I think is interesting is that it’s a kind of virtual architecture becoming physical or perhaps even more: a physical architecture triggering memory. It wasn’t our intention, but probably the concept will lead to the architecture that’s absent, that doesn’t exist anymore. It will help people to remember their own lives, which I think is a nice idea for architecture.

Julia Peyton-Jones:  You’re going to allow people to become time travellers, to retrace their lives and provide them with the context to do that in a completely democratic space: a structure without walls. Your Pavilion, in that sense, is one of the most democratic spaces that you could possibly come across, much more than the Serpentine Gallery itself, because there’s no barrier to prevent people engaging with the structure. It is the ultimate act of generosity, like a present. And indeed, Richard Rogers described the Pavilion as the greatest gift that is given to London every year. How important to you was this idea of creating an accessible public forum?

Ai Weiwei:  I think we’re all very interested in public space and in the need to have some kind of public meeting space. We realise that we only have one page in the Serpentine Pavilion ‘book’ and then this page will be turned over by another effort. So this project will be inserted into the whole effort. When we talk about memory, it’s about an understanding of the past and at the same time, of the fact that one day we’re going to be the past. So I think that gives a very special understanding of this kind of architecture. And it not only stays in our minds, but it stays in the public mind. So that’s why I think this project has a very special meaning beyond the architecture itself. This idea of public-ness and our understanding of what a public building is: it’s not about personal tastes, it’s about the memory or history that we have to recognise. It doesn’t matter whether we like it or not; it’s there and it’s up to us to make it very public. This is a very interesting approach that could give a new definition to public sculpture.

Pierre de Meuron:  The projects that we’ve been developing together with Weiwei and also all the ones that we’ve been working on in our office are mostly public and some of them are highly public. I don’t think there are many buildings that could be more public than the ‘Bird’s Nest’ or the Serpentine Pavilion, and this fact was highly inspiring to us. It inspired us to go beyond just the functional and technical questioning to ask what such a space should actually be. We’re very happy that the public function of the stadium in Beijing has been maintained after the Games. For us, the Olympic Games weren’t the most important aspect. Of course, they were the trigger to do this building, but we had many different clients because after the Games the building was intended for commercial use. Fortunately this didn’t happen. Our third client was the public. Chinese men and women live in the public realm: they dance, they play and they talk together. They’re a people who live in public space and we wanted to create more than just a sports facility with this stadium; we wanted to create a public space for the Chinese people and also for their guests in China. The Serpentine Pavilion is similar, since the park is highly public, the Gallery is public and the Pavilion will also be very public. Julia, you mentioned the forum and I think this is a very good word to describe what this Pavilion intends to be: a forum that will bring people together under one roof so that they can meet and exchange ideas. That would certainly be our big hope for the life of this building.

Julia Peyton-Jones:  Do the Olympics give you an additional opportunity, or an additional way of exploring architecture?

Ai Weiwei:  Of course, I’m very happy that other people will enjoy the Games, but it doesn’t really affect me, because I’m not a very sporty person. Jacques and Pierre are very sporty people. They like playing soccer!

Pierre de Meuron:  I feel exactly the same as Weiwei. I feel thankful to the Olympic event because it has allowed us to work at the Serpentine Gallery.

Hans Ulrich Obrist:  Do you have any joint unrealised projects – any Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei projects that have been too big to be realised, too small to be realised or just forgotten? What are your dreams?

Ai Weiwei:  Well it’s been a very nice experience spending time and travelling together and I hope we can do it again in the future.
Conversation by Skype
Basel, London, Beijing, 11 May 2012

Excerpt from publication:
Ai Weiwei, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones, Joseph Rykwert: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012. Edited by: Sophie O’Brien, with Melissa Larner and Claire Feeley. London, Koenig Books and Serpentine Gallery, 2012. Exhibition Catalogue.
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