A framework for everyday life The Vernets Tower transforms a former military site into a new part of Geneva. The essay examines the relationship between density, public space and architecture, focusing on typology, construction and the quality of social housing. High, Medium, or low-rise housing? In Switzerland, high-rise residential buildings are shaping a new tradition of settlement. Against a backdrop of densification, urban quality and new forms of settlement, this essay explores the tradition that residential towers are establishing Designing through the landscape Perched above the Gulf of Naples, Dolf Schnebli’s Swiss School (1964–67) is an architectural landscape: a terraced complex where Mediterranean light, Eastern memories, and pedagogical vision converge. A city within the city, where the school becomes Architecture on the edge of the abstract In the residential neighbourhoods of Zurich, the collaboration between EMI Architekt*innen and Christian Hörler intertwines architecture and art in a silent but profound dialogue. Hörler's sculptural interventions, integrated into the projects Between digital fabrication and historical memory In Mulegns, a village of 16 inhabitants and a tower: Tor Alva intertwines baroque memory and 3D printing. A symbol of the Zuckerbäcker and ETH research, it combines art, technology and territory in a visionary work 30 metres high. An algorithmic Werbung Elective affinities In the essay by the co-urator of Archi | 02, the relationship between art and architecture is investigated through historical examples and contemporary projects in which the boundary between the two disciplines becomes porous. A journey between Inhabiting art In the heart of the Zellweger park in Uster, the new Kunsthaus of the Walter A. Bechtler Foundation hosts a monumental installation by Walter De Maria. Art and architecture are integrated in an urban ecosystem where the exceptional becomes part of Spatial alchemy and culture In Minusio, the Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion has been reborn thanks to a redevelopment project by Inches Geleta. A new underground foyer dialogues with the visionary legacy of Clarism, transforming the museum experience into a sensory journey through Gulliver in the yard With School Models, Florian Graf transforms the Hofacker schoolyard in Zurich into a playful and reflective landscape. Somewhere between play and architecture, the scale model sculptures mix up the proportions and invite children and adults to The Alpine Wunderkammer In Göschenen, the new Kunsthalle designed by Burkhalter Sumi fits into the alpine landscape like an avalanche wedge: a concrete shell that protects only two works of art, transforming a bare hall into a place of radical vision. Between silence Grafton Architects: «Unsere Mandantin ist die Erde» Schönheit als Summe von Unvollkommenheiten, die Suche nach dem perfekten Mörtel und das Verhältnis zu einer äusserst speziellen Mandantin: Yvonne Farrell und Shelley McNamara, die Gründerinnen von Grafton Architects und Gewinnerinnen des Pritzker
A framework for everyday life The Vernets Tower transforms a former military site into a new part of Geneva. The essay examines the relationship between density, public space and architecture, focusing on typology, construction and the quality of social housing.
High, Medium, or low-rise housing? In Switzerland, high-rise residential buildings are shaping a new tradition of settlement. Against a backdrop of densification, urban quality and new forms of settlement, this essay explores the tradition that residential towers are establishing
Designing through the landscape Perched above the Gulf of Naples, Dolf Schnebli’s Swiss School (1964–67) is an architectural landscape: a terraced complex where Mediterranean light, Eastern memories, and pedagogical vision converge. A city within the city, where the school becomes
Architecture on the edge of the abstract In the residential neighbourhoods of Zurich, the collaboration between EMI Architekt*innen and Christian Hörler intertwines architecture and art in a silent but profound dialogue. Hörler's sculptural interventions, integrated into the projects
Between digital fabrication and historical memory In Mulegns, a village of 16 inhabitants and a tower: Tor Alva intertwines baroque memory and 3D printing. A symbol of the Zuckerbäcker and ETH research, it combines art, technology and territory in a visionary work 30 metres high. An algorithmic
Elective affinities In the essay by the co-urator of Archi | 02, the relationship between art and architecture is investigated through historical examples and contemporary projects in which the boundary between the two disciplines becomes porous. A journey between
Inhabiting art In the heart of the Zellweger park in Uster, the new Kunsthaus of the Walter A. Bechtler Foundation hosts a monumental installation by Walter De Maria. Art and architecture are integrated in an urban ecosystem where the exceptional becomes part of
Spatial alchemy and culture In Minusio, the Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion has been reborn thanks to a redevelopment project by Inches Geleta. A new underground foyer dialogues with the visionary legacy of Clarism, transforming the museum experience into a sensory journey through
Gulliver in the yard With School Models, Florian Graf transforms the Hofacker schoolyard in Zurich into a playful and reflective landscape. Somewhere between play and architecture, the scale model sculptures mix up the proportions and invite children and adults to
The Alpine Wunderkammer In Göschenen, the new Kunsthalle designed by Burkhalter Sumi fits into the alpine landscape like an avalanche wedge: a concrete shell that protects only two works of art, transforming a bare hall into a place of radical vision. Between silence
Grafton Architects: «Unsere Mandantin ist die Erde» Schönheit als Summe von Unvollkommenheiten, die Suche nach dem perfekten Mörtel und das Verhältnis zu einer äusserst speziellen Mandantin: Yvonne Farrell und Shelley McNamara, die Gründerinnen von Grafton Architects und Gewinnerinnen des Pritzker
