A Swiss pearl for the world

Horizontal Tower The result of an international limited competition, this administration building by 5+1AA complements the sprawling grounds of the Milan Trade Fair in Rho. Dubbed the ‘horizontal tower’ by its designers, the structure combines two separate buildings within one envelope, intertwining horizontal and vertical design principles to create a sitespecific and highly evocative new…

At the top of a steep hill At the top of a steep hill, lies a private residential project, comprising four independent chalets, built to provide their owners with a luxurious, secondary residence. The project is located in Faqra Club, a club assembling prestigious villas and offering Lebanon’s elite a seasonal escape. This destination attracts…

Dialogue of surfaces Religious believers from local communities conceived the idea for this ambitious project in Bern well over a decade ago. As a result of their vision of creating an interreligious space, Europan5 launched an architectural competition in 1999, which was won by Madir Shah of Urbanoffice in Amsterdam. The competition marks the start…

Stamping Game For the São Paulo branch of ITMS Telemedicina do Brasil, a company specialised in telemedicine services, two floors of office space were projected in the business heart of the city. With the atmosphere of a “residential loft”, Brazilian architect Maurício Karam gave the rooms a high-tech feature using a differentiated lighting system and…

Beacon of Hope The first Catholic high school to be built on Chicago’s West Side in more than 80 years, Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School sets a striking contrast to its decayed surroundings. A tonal arrangement of fiber cement panels adds depth to the façade and gives it a corporate appearance in keeping…

Rhythm and Movement The complex at the University of Rijeka had a demanding brief as the building had to house two separate faculties as well as a student counselling centre and an underground parking area.   Anna Roos The architects used the incline of the site to carefully model the ground plane of the project,…

Dancing Pyramid Stumps The town of Lund in the southernmost province of Sweden, the beautiful Schonen, is known as the “students’ city” owing to the fact that over one third of its inhabitants are students. Four new highrise buildings dominate the town’s silhouette. The Swiss architect Mario Campi and his Swedish colleague Arne Jönsson and…