Selection of articles in english

The Rialto indoor swimming pool, built in Basel in 1934, has been extensively renovated. Reuter Architekten brought this avant-garde and architecturally striking building into the present day with a series of skillful interventions.

On the Giardini of the Biennale, the curators of the Swiss Pavilion are giving new life to the project of one of the first women architects registered in Switzerland, Lisbeth Sachs (1914-2002). In a subtle game of confrontation, the team reproduced fragments of an ephemeral art gallery (Kunsthalle) that she had designed in 1958 for the Swiss Exhibition of Women's Work (SAFFA) on and inside the rooms of Bruno Giacometti's pavilion.

When a client opts for exemplary and sustainable construction, they offer their project team a genuine field for experimentation. In Daillens (VD), a small municipality of 1,100 inhabitants, the local council sought to replace the changing rooms for FC Venoge. What appeared to be a modest programme turned out to be a remarkable architectural opportunity for the firm Localarchitecture.

Through science. By design. In place. Over time. Future Cities Laboratory adresses the complex challenges of sustainable and liveable urban development.

Why does FCL face up to the complexity of urban life? In this interview, the three directors explain what motivates – and challenges – them on a daily basis.

Reconcile, revitalise, revaluate: four FCL research modules investigate the complex interde-pendencies between cities and the hinterland that feeds them.

Trade-offs for higher availability: enough or scarce? Cities cannot supply themselves with energy and construction materials alone. Sustainable supply chains and more data are needed.

Navigating urban complexity with a holistic vision generates insights, methods, and tools that empower decision-makers to defuse conflicting goals.

Collaborative concepts for walkable cities, safe landscapes, sustainable mobility, and participatory design approaches are reliant on data analytics and multi-level modelling.

Cities are a work in progress, shaped by the future as much as by the past. Because we cannot assume the future form or character of cities, continued vigilant and strategic urban monitoring is imperative to creating and securing healthier, more sustainable places. Thanks to the work of projects like FCL Global, we now know more than ever about how to shape the urban transition.

The potential of the encounter between art and architecture is understood as a means to critically inhabit the present and transform space into a collective experience. An invitation to observe, recognise and protect the precious and often fragile plurality of the present.

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, transform matter into visual and spatial narration.

In the essay by the co-curator of Archi |02, light is shed on the experience of the Kathtarinen-Turm, the temporary installation that evoked the lost tower of the Fraumünster, symbolising the link between art, architecture and history, in a project created thanks to a collaborative process.

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 dream in the heart of Grisons.

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 experimentation and public commissioning, collective vision and individual poetics.

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 everyday life.

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 light, matter and spirituality.

There's a secret museum hidden under the ETH Zurich: 40 illegal graffiti by Harald Naegeli, the ‘Sprayer of Zurich’, now protected as artistic heritage. A unique journey through street art, urban memory and cultural resistance.

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, disorientation and material tension, art and architecture confront the force of the landscape.

In the 80s and 90s, art and architecture intertwined as never before: art invaded public spaces, challenged institutions, shaped cities. From Beuys to Fischli & Weiss, through original artistic manifestations, a season was born where boundaries, roles and languages merged and were redefined.

In Chêne-Bourg (GE), in an area undergoing transformation, Nomos architectes has just completed an office and mixed-use building that plays it low-key — don’t be misled by the apparent banality of its façade...

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In Renens, the competition for the renovation and expansion of the sumptuous Performance Hall, listed in the cantonal inventory (grade 2), attracted numerous submissions. A Zurich-based team prevailed, adopting an approach deliberately rooted in a strong and recognized reference.

A replacement building for the Walka school complex is being built in the center of Zermatt. Despite its size, the complex, which consists of three interlocking structures, blends in well with the small-scale village structure and provides contemporary learning spaces for 800 schoolchildren.

At the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Annexe collective evokes the work of Lisbeth Sachs in an immersive installation that raises questions about the representation of women in architecture and the memory of built space.

The final editorial by Mercedes Daguerre introduces the themes of Archi 2025, retracing the transformations of specialized publishing in the digital age and the relationship between building culture and Swiss Baukultur, while opening up to the magazine’s future perspectives.