Architecture Basel

Program highlights: 

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• Vals and Zürich: Peter Zumthor’s projects

• Projects by the famous architect studio Herzog & de Meuron, Diener & Diener Architecten and other leading Swiss design studios

• Wood/CLT: Visit to an abbey with a new extension constructed from wood – and a large municipal warehouse completed in just one week.

• Guided tour in a medical tech-park, visit a string of buildings designed by some of the world’s most prominent architects

• A former industrial hall converted into a green park with 25 metre-high trees that grow upwards out of an enormous metal structure  

• Visit to a university to learn about robot technology in wood building projects.

• Visit to  a new ‘natural’ outdoor public pool designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

• Urban development and city planning: the area around Zürich’s train station and airport

• Rudolf Steiner’s first school.