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Opening of the exhibition "Confronting Comfort's Continent" with Oliver Ressler

La Fabbrica del Cioccolato Foundation to host the exhibition on 4th August

Zanny Begg and Oliver Ressler, "The Right of Passage", 2013 The starting point of the exhibition “Confronting Comfort’s Continent” is the base of the foundation La Fabbrica del Cioccolato: a former…
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An encounter at the heart of design: the Fixpencil® by Mario Botta

Caran d’Ache and Mario Botta are presenting a new limited edition, available in two formats, of the emblematic Fixpencil®, the instrument preferred by the famous Swiss architect.

Mario Botta, Swiss Architect The Fixpencil® isn’t simply one more writing and drawing tool. It is an exceptional invention founded on one hundred years of Caran d’Ache know-how. Invented in…
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La Fabbrica del Cioccolato Foundation opening May 21st

On Saturday at 6 pm the Foundation will launch Foreignness, a multidisciplinary project developed by the artistic director Franco Marinotti.

  La Fabbrica del Cioccolato is a new Foundation, open to all cultural and artistic expressions. On Saturday 21st May at 18:00 it will launch Foreignness, a curatorial, multidisciplinary, two-year…
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The "most advanced data storage centre in Switzerland" now completed

The Datacube was designed for the firm Quickline and is situated in the Münchenstein district.

This data storage centre in Basel has a ridged shell of both perforated and solid steel panels, designed by Ffbk Architects to offer fragmented reflections of the sky and surroundings. The Datacube…
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A Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks

Like "one big house", the building consists of a single open-plan space with simply furnished classrooms.

Architect Pierre-Alain Dupraz chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance. Located in a town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva, Kindergarten and Crèche in Prangins is made up from four…
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The wooden "house within a house" inside Basel factory

The former machine factory has now turned into a shared working space.

Swiss architecture studio Stereo Architektur has completed its first project: a wooden structure that transforms a former Basel machine factory into a shared working space. The structure inhabits the main…
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New Zurich building incorporating the facade of a century-old warehouse

The new construction absorbs the existing, infusing it with a porous materiality.

Swiss studio E2A infilled the facade of an old Zurich warehouse to create this rehearsal space for the city's opera house, before tacking a 60-metre-high apartment block onto one side. Photograph by…
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Christian Müller converts an Alpine chalet into a pair of family apartments

The renovation project combines exposed stone walls with raw concrete and distressed wood

Dutch architect Christian Müller has overhauled the interior of a chalet in the Swiss Alps, creating a pair of apartments that combine exposed stone walls with raw concrete and distressed wood. Christian Müller was…
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