Linking Old and New The challenge for the architect Andris Vitols was to preserve the old facade of the original building situated one kilometer north of the Daugava River in central Riga. A bold contrast has been created with this sleek modern addition inserted above a traditional timber-clad facade. This project is featured in the…
University Children's Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland
Herzog & de Meuron are building the new University Children’s Hospital in Zurich. Designed as a small city for children, it is characterized by a comfortable spatial environment for little patients, with a well thought-out use of materials and scale. The choice in this regard went to individually manufactured fiber cement panels from Swisspearl Group.…
Machupichu Residential Apartment Block, Spain
High-Quality, High-Density Housing A seven-story, U-shaped apartment block elevated on concrete pilotis accommodates 112, two-to-five-room apartments and encloses an inner courtyard with sports and recreation facilities including a large swimming pool and tennis court. This project is featured in the Swisspearl Architecture #28. Subscribe to our magazine to get the printed issue. Machupichu creates a…
Skanstes City, Riga
From military building to modern office The reconstruction of SWH office center in one of the largest business districts in Riga was completed in September 2019. Modern office space was built on an area of over 16,000 m2. For the two buildings, which were located in the military zone during Soviet times, it was important…
Cepa Housing İncek Residential Building, Turkey
High-Rise Living With its distinctive red and gray clad high-rise towers, Cepa Housing İncek forms part of the Çayyolu-Alacaatlı residential area within the wider development of western Ankara. This is a high-end district introducing innovative, distinguished, and bold projects. This project is featured in the Swisspearl Architecture #28. Subscribe to our magazine to get the…
Chiesa di San Bartolomeo, Italy
Dynamic and Slanted Form Dynamic and Slanted Form – A primary architectural criterion for the San Bartolomeo Church in the northern Italian town of Andrate was to design a building clearly legible as Christian. To this end, a nine-meter-high inclined bell tower was incorporated as an instantly recognizable symbol of the Christian faith, which still…
Fibercement panels with milled engravings
Contemporary working environment Swisspearl offers fibercement panels with milled engravings tailored to the customer’s individual requests. In the entrance area of the visitor center at Swisspearl Group in Niederurnen, a sample landscape photo has been exemplarily re-worked as a relief-milled image—with a milled line grid. When the fiber cement factory in Switzerland’s Niederurnen did a…
Cedar Ridge High School Auditorium, USA
Rising Volumes in Gray Stantec designed this bold auditorium/theater addition to the existing Round Rock ISD high school to help offset the high frequency use of the district’s performing arts center. The project has become a prototype for other school auditoria in the district. This project is featured in the Swisspearl Architecture #28. Subscribe to…
Silverpoppeln Preschool, Sweden
Example of the Versatility This public preschool in Sweden is an excellent example of the versatility of Swisspearl panels. The elevation of the building facing the public entry is a light, steel framework clad in perforated white Swisspearl panels assembled vertically with generous openings from the upper balconies to overlook the garden playground, while the…
Swisspearl Sponeck Chairs and Tables: The place to relax in a unique quarter
“PAUPYS” is a new place for living and working in the historic old town of Vilnius in Lithuania, winding along the Vilnelė River. The district is being created as part of the Park of Architecture project, which is a large-scale conversion project that transforms the old areas of the capital into harmonious zones for work and…