Construction at Forchstrasse carries on at a steady pace. The old envelope has been completely removed and preparations for the new concrete expansion of the facade is under way.
The listed Haus Zur Sommerau stands on a ridge next to school buildings, a community center, and the Uetikon church hill. The property is defined by its large garden reminiscent of grand bourgeois residences.
spillmann echsle’s refurbishment of a former production facility prioritizes horizontal and vertical flexibility to accommodate various use cases, where the ease of installation and de-installation of the floor and partitioning elements is paramount.
Given the stipulated high-rise typology and its strategic placement at the juncture of the Altstetten, Albisrieden, and Aussersihl districts, this tower design is highly visible from afar and, with its design, introduces a building form that is consistent with its urban surroundings.
The proposal converts the old Zurich military barracks into an education centre, open to public use on the ground level and developing around a new atrium space.
The characteristic urban morphology of the Heuried residential district was established in the 1940s post-war building boom, when perimeter developments transitioned to housing blocks, providing park-like residential settings. The intervention's typology embodies an essentially linear design.
Adjacent to Zurich Main Station railway tracks, the interior fit-out of Google’s Building G marks the next phase of the firm’s office expansion following the successful completion of the Sihlpost Zurich.
Featuring production facilities and design studios, as well as logistics and administration, the Freitag Factory accommodates over 120 employees across 10'000 square meters.
A standardised 20-foot shipping container is transformed into a building block for an architectural intervention: A stepped tower rises 9 units up from a 5 x 2-unit base.
Through this intervention, the main building, the ancillary building, and the new basement are merged into one unit, while at the same time, the independent expression of the individual parts is strengthened.
The Radiostudio Brunnenhof complex, located in Zurich Kreis 6, was built in two phases: the first by Otto Dürr and the second by Willy Rost and Max Bill. With the neighborhood experiencing rapid transformation, there's an increasing demand for educational spaces. Switzerland's first radio studio will be converted into a secondary school and an educational music center.
The renovation of a home from the 1950s offers a lesson in spatial economy.
The House of Switzerland is a mobile building that serves a diplomatic function representing Switzerland’s prfessional sporting interests, traveling to various international locations. Its wooden construction merges traditional carpentry and state of the art timber engineering.
Our proposal reenvisions the 1950s church by lightly separating the nave and better linking the building to the parish complex.
A concert hall constructed from simple and inexpensive spruce wood was inserted as a wooden box in a former production hall. In the intermediate area outside the wooden vessel and within the industrial building’s walls, visitors see the raw and honest character of the elementary wooden construction.
Freitag's first factory was located within the Maag complex in Zurich. There, a 'structure within a structure' allowed the famous brand to upcycle, store, document and ship their bags.
Tanzwerk houses the kinesthetic program of Switzerland’s largest dance school, dividing the space into 12 dance studios, a large performance auditorium and workrooms with various service areas.
On Labs at Zürich West has been picked by the Archdaily community is the year's best project for office spaces.
The new six room construction comprises of an attic level, two main floors and an underground garage. Its formal architectural vocabulary is clear, authentic and unadorned.
The historic ABB halls in Oerlikon prevail as significant architectural testaments to Zurich's industrial past. Following a revision of updated building regulations, these halls are now permanently preserved.
The objective of this competition was to transform an existing industrial hall, turning it into an inspiring training hub for knowledge sharing for an international company.
A house sits on an incline at the periphery of Üsslingen. The home is built as a sustainable, prefabricated timber structure atop a pre-cast concrete basement.
This interior fit-out for On reflects the architectural logic of the building as a whole and forms a spatial link between the two different worlds of product development housed within: the “lab”, which occupies the structure’s four-storey base, and the “neighbourhoods” above, where marketing, logistics, and sales activities take place.
To accommodate creative professionals, Spillmann Echsle's strategy for this adaptive re-use of the warehouse into an office and studio framework named "Creative Hub" considerably repairs the existing spaces by stripping away double floors, suspended ceilings, and partition walls.
Roots, the vegan restaurant which also serves as the canteen for On Running’s team, is housed on the first floor of the Atmos high-rise building in Zurich West, home to 17 floors of On's offices.
From the jury: "The large-scale project boasts avant-garde spatial designs that have a fascinating appeal. [...] The complexity that arises from the size of the project and the large number of participants was coordinated in an exemplary manner by the group of design players and driven to a manifold result that is of impressive quality down to the smallest details."
This post-war era building is used today as a laboratory and office building on the first three floors and as duplex apartments starting from the 4th floor.
