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Roger Boltshauser, Storage Buildings, Zurich, 2002

Himmelmann N., Utopische Vergangenheit. Archäologie und moderne Kultur, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1976; ed. it. Utopia del passato. Archeologia e cultura moderna, De Donato, Bari 1981.

e2a - Bethanien Deaconry Building, Zürich 2017. An impressive multi-purpose project comprising of office space, housing, a hotel, restaurants, classrooms, daycare centers, and healthcare facilities behind a monolithic facade, with a technically impressive series of external sliding windows. Photos © Rasmus Norlander, Georg Aerni.

Álvaro Siza, St. Ovídio Farm Chapel, Lousada, 2002

A cactus garden outside the walls of artist Claudio Bravo’s home

Azmaya House / mA-style architects

Peter Märkli - Les Hiboux/Im Gut cooperative housing, Zurich 2012. Via, photos © Walter Mair.

“Im Gut’s apartments are relatively conventional, but what’s more striking about it is the sheer nobility of its formal articulation, something seldom found in contemporary collective housing. Built within a tight budget, yet built to last, its buildings are realised both inside and out with a kind of archaic solidity; rough, profane and direct, yet sophisticated in dealing with contrasts and imperfections. Im Gut’s historical references are rich and numerous – found not least in the classical-modern Italianate colonnades running the full length of the blocks. This is not just practical but also cerebral, idiosyncratic architecture.” Via.

Könz Molo - Student dorms, Mendrisio 2006.  Photos © Walter Mair, Paola Miozza.

325. Adolf Loos /// Villa Karma /// Montreux, Switzerland /// 1904

Huge Strange - Harewood Studio, North Yorkshire 2016. Photos © David Grandorge.