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We are pleased to inform you about the latest issue of the Swisspearl Architecture magazine. Subscribe to our magazine to get the printed issue or download the PDF from the download area on our website.   About the magazine #26 This present magazine features buildings representing a wide variety of typologies and scales, built in…

Heartfelt congratulations to all winners of the Swisspearl tests 2017 that were carried out during the Regional Meetings at the end of this past years together with distributors.   Already in December, Swisspearl informed you about the Regional Meetings that took place in the fall of 2017. During these meetings, a Swisspearl Test was also…

Each fall, the Swisspearl Regional Meetings take place around the world. This event sees Swisspearl partners coming together in a common place to discuss market development activities for the coming year and to receive the latest news from head office.     Shanghai, Paris, Dallas and Dubai: these are this year’s destinations for Swisspearl distributors…

INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET SPRUG Margaret Sprug is a principal of Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle. She received a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A & M University in 1986, and a Masters in architecture in 1993 from Columbia University. After running her own firm in New York from 1994 to 1999, Sprug joined Miller…

The American Architecture Prize honors designs in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture with the goal of advancing the appreciation of architecture worldwide. Each submitted design was evaluated by the esteemed AAP Jury on its own merit on the dimensions of Design Excellence, Innovation and Function. Congratulations to all of our winners.…

In architecture, digital aids make it possible to design free forms. Already in the pre-digital era, repeated efforts were made to break away from the right angle and regular geometries. Nowadays, it seems that there are no limits to imagination. All that is left to discover are the paths for implementing the ideas of form…

ALICE HOUSE 2 – COUNTER CITY is a 240 square metre public architectural installation situated next to the Toni-Areal in Zurich. The project is based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction conceived by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) — a laboratory of EPFL led by Dieter Dietz.     ALICE…

NEW FAÇADE PANEL – INCORA Swisspearl proudly announces Incora, the brand new façade panel.   The one-of-a-kind result – a vivid character Part 5/5 Drawing on meticulous precision and long-standing expertise, the Niederurnen factory has always produced quality products for façades made from fiber cement. However, the spreading technique using natural marble granules is a…

SWISS DESIGN AWARD Swisspearl proudly presents the awarded work of product designer Michel Charlot! Overview Award category: Products & objects Work: Stool Essay Contemporary Product Design for Swisspearl with design culture. Simple, user-friendly forms have been found for the stools and tables. About the designer Mi­chel Char­lot is born in 1984. The product designer lives…

Design The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (fdfa) published an article on Swiss design objects that have become design classics over the last years. fdfa admin Iconic Swiss designs like the pocket knife, the Helvetica typeface and the Swatch watch all have one thing in common: their combination of functionality and understated elegance. Swiss…