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overhead exterior view of an airport terminal with a glass atrium and air traffic control tower.
Just Landed

BIG and HOK tapped for new main terminal at Zurich Airport

The Unbearable Lightness of Building

Lütjens Padmanabhan mines architectural history to produce buildings with distinctive qualities attuned to contemporary construction

Campus dormitory
Open, Closed, and In Between

Kengo Kuma utilizes modular assembly for student housing in Switzerland

storefronts in a swiss-themed town in wisconsin
Potemkin Village

The curious case of a Wisconsin canton and its legally sanctioned “Swiss” architecture raises questions about identity construction

rendering of a green plaza flanked by timber buildings
A Tall Order

Schmidt Hammer Lassen unveils design for record-setting tall timber tower in Switzerland

Inside the Swiss Consulate, green marble and paint is used
Extended Family

The Chicago offices of the Swiss Consulate pull disparate influences into a cohesive, congenial whole

an experimental structure with different experimental building modules and a swooping concrete roof, hilo
Get High, Get Low

The HiLo module at Zurich’s NEST pairs ancient building concepts with futuristic construction

Photo of the The Musée Atelier Audemars Pigue, a spiraling mound of glass
Round and Round and Round...

BIG’s spiraling Audemars Piguet extension rises from the Swiss landscape

trapezoidal formwork

Barozzi Veiga’s Tanzhaus Cultural Center borders the riverbank with tiers of concrete

Rendering of a chapel interior bathed in red light
I Can't Thrive 55

Herzog & de Meuron reveal Switzerland’s first roadside chapel

Interior of the Swatch office, with a timber coffered ceiling
Triumphs in Timber

Shigeru Ban Architects completes a sprawling mass timber campus for Swatch

Photo of geodesic domes in the Swiss Alps
Pod People

Montalba Architects furnishes a hotel eco-pod in the Swiss Alps

Nine concrete columns are lit below in front of a mountain in a nighttime scene thanks to the team from ETH Zurich
Choreographed Columns

Researchers and students at ETH Zurich print complex columns for dance festival

Exterior photo of the Olympic House, a swirling glass facade
Building in stride

3XN’s Olympic House undulates with a parametrically designed glass curtain wall

A modernist-style house with a colorful window wall; the Centre Le Corbusier
A Center for Corbusiers

Le Corbusier’s final project opens to the public with Mon univers

Photo of three people standing on a roof by solar panels
Sunny Days

EPFL puts new high-efficiency rooftop solar panels to the test

A rendering of a six-story building
Light as Air

New Swiss residential building shows off the latest in efficient tech

A view of AGORA Pôle de Recherche Sur le Cancer
alpine views

This Swiss cancer institute keeps out the sun with a continuous aluminum screen

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