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e 2 a is practicing architecture and urban design. Architectural and urban projects are conceived as an interdisciplinary process, as a multiple authorship. The conceptual development is a synthesis of an analytic perception of the context and a hypothetical, programmatic approach, outlining a conceptual and an operative interpretation of the contemporary condition. The body of works stresses a claim on diversity. The difference and the specificity of the individual task motivates a composed team of architects, engineers, advisors of building technologies and material research, process and cost managers, artists, scenographers, movie makers and others for a common intelligence of space production. ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/mission-statement OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/scope-of-work

urban planning housing cultural and public buildings industrial and commercial buildings exhibitions feasibilities]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/scope-of-work OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/sustainability

e 2 a’s expertise and understanding in providing sustainability services has been built up over the course of many years and enables E2A to deliver strategic advice and value adding solutions within urban and architectural planning processes. Most recognized reference project is the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin. Its energy concept puts the building in the ecological vanguard. Demands on projects have become more complex and an interdisciplinary cooperation between client, architect and building services engineers is essential. E2A has acquired specialist knowledge in integrated design which ensures that innovative solutions are successfully implemented within the given framework.]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/sustainability OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/cv-piet-eckert

Piet Eckert was born in 1968 in Mumbai (Bombay), India. He studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich (Diploma 1994, with honorable mention) and at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York. He worked from 1995 to 1997 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). He has been an independent architect in Zurich since 1997; in 2001 he founded e 2 a eckert eckert architects with Wim Eckert. Piet Eckert regularly gives lectures and workshops at schools and institutions. He has taught at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and at the ETH in Zurich and has been a member of several academic juries in Europe and elsewhere. Piet Eckert is appointed visiting professor for Architecture and sustainable Design (Bachelor's and Master's Degree) at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU).]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/cv-piet-eckert OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/cv-wim-eckert

Wim Eckert was born in 1969 in Zurich. He studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich (Diploma 1995, with honorable mention. He worked from 1996 to 1997 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). He has been an independent architect in Zurich since 1997; in 2001 he founded e 2 a eckert eckert architects with Piet Eckert. Wim Eckert regularly gives lectures and workshops at schools and institutions. Since 2009, he is appointed visiting professor for Architecture and sustainable Design (Bachelor's and Master's Degree) at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU). ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/cv-wim-eckert OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/associations

BSA Bund Schweizer Architekten BSA / Society of Swiss Architects SIA Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein SIA / Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects registered in the Architektenkammer Berlin / Architectural Chamber Berlin ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/associations OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/awards

BDA Award Berlin 09, recognition for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin Swiss Solar Award, 2008; for the Sports Facilities Juchhof, CH-Zurich-Alstetten Best Architects 09 Award, 2008; for the Triangle House, CH-Winterthur Best Architects 08 Award, 2007; for the Terrace Housing, CH-Meilen Flying Fish 2002, award for sustainable constructions, for the pavilion Nouvelle DestiNation, expo.02, CH-Biel ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/awards OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/exhibitions

E2A. Serien 2004-09, Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart. 2009/2010 2006-2009 Einführungen / Introductions. Architektur Galerie Berlin. 2009 Fractions of Reality. Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade. 2009 E2A. Der ideale Kontext / The Ideal Context. Architektur Galerie Berlin. 2008 ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/exhibitions OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?office/how-to-find-us

address: Hardturmstrasse 76, 8005 Zurich directions by car: see map by public transportation: from mainstation take tram no. 4 (direction Werdhölzli) or tram no. 13 (direction Frankental) get out at Escher Wyss Platz. ]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?office/how-to-find-us OFFICE http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5204-mountain-lodge

Project 2007-2008 / Realization 2008-2009 / A small mountain lodge, placed above the alpine City of Davos, at approx. 1500 m above sea level. A weekend hide-out capturing decisive perspectives of an overwhelming panorama, pointing at precious crowns of the near mountain tops. The ground plate and the roof form the living space in-between the two structurally relevant surfaces. Panorama, framed view and skylight define the perspective mode of perception. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5204-mountain-lodge HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5195-lakeside

Project 2007-2008 / Realization 2008-2009 / Three stacked volumes, connected through a cascadian staircase, combine different programmatic scenarios. Living on the ground level, the first level is designated for the children, the top level is for the parents. The cascade allows every combination to connect and circulate and keeps the three levels as connected and separated as wanted. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5195-lakeside HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5193-high-rise-apartment-building-escher-terrassen

City of Zurich / Masterplan 2006, 1st Prize / Project 2007 / Realization planned 2008-2010/ Client: Allreal / Gross Volume: 74'450 m3 / The compensation of the low density of industrial halls causes a densification taking place on the outer edges, on minimal remaining footprints, outside of logistical impacts. Exploring the height becomes symptomatically the only mechanism to multiply the granted surfaces. The result is a fairly accidental placement of towers. The high-rise apartment building is less a landmark but a result of a more site specific motivation: a “contextual” form of locally based high-rises in a relatively compact scale. The shape of the new project allows freeing the neighborhood from any impact of shadow resulting in a two side’s inclination. The housing takes advantage of the inclination. Continuous terraces to the south and to the west generate a great exposure and transfers the potential views into an organized system of a tribune. The base of the project incorporates this existing storage building and houses the new rehearsal stages of the Zurich Opera House.]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5193-high-rise-apartment-building-escher-terrassen HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5191-lake-houses

Meilen / Competition 2005, 1st prize / Project 2006-2007 / Realization 2007–2009 / Three small and compact housing blocks are carefully set together in order to assure the predominant lake view. A subtle change of topography allows placing the houses at different heights forming a slight tribune. The white and wooden façade interpret the traditional lake summer houses of the North. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5191-lake-houses HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5149-gsc-house

Project 2005-2007 / Realization 2006-2007 / The 50% steepness of the site and the existing precious panorama has generated a wide range of terrace variations in the neighborhood. To be outside means to deal with the presence of all the terrace holders. The client’s need of extraordinary privacy was enhanced by the position of volumes, generating a micro context, quasi their own neighborhood. The remaining land will become an inaccessible but cultivated jungle. Access is organized through a serpentine road in the south, reaching the utilitarian house. The main stairs give access to the entry court. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5149-gsc-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5143-triangle-house

City of Winterthur / Project 2005-2006 / Realization 2006-2007 / Gross Surface: 1000 m2 / Gross volume: 2750 m3 / To densify a lot with an additional building is not an uncommon operation. It goes back to the rules of heritage, to organize further buildings on a site in order to accommodate the families' need of increased spacial demands. Along the Jonas Furrer Quarter in Winterthur, the houses refer to the former industrial age, forming a housing compound with villas, presidentially placed and sequentially perceivable. The new house occupies the corner of the lot, leaving the presidential placing of the old villa and adding a new contextual interpretation to the existing sequence. The triangular form allows for keeping the existing garden free of any constructions. Three apartments are organized within the slender, triangular block. The form of the building renders entirely different impressions regarding size and form. Though very contextually thought out, the building remains a stranger among the old villas. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5143-triangle-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5127-patio-house

Project 2006 / Three houses in one, typologically defined as a courthouse, a bungalow and a panoramic glasshouse. The house allows complex relationships through its simple diagrammatic composition. The different parts generate program scenario and distribute the diverse performances. The courthouse remains introverted and is used as a guesthouse, the bungalow performs as the main private area and allows an intense relationship with the strictly private garden. The glasshouse remains as the main living area and representative part of the house.]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5127-patio-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5094-country-house

Project 2003 / Realization 2006-2007 / A house with two components of spaces; chambers and voids. The chambers fulfill precisely identified purposes, the voids can anticipate to all the rest yet to come: the chambers are conceived for individual family members, the void to meet and be together. The house is a free standing volume on a long subtle slope, slightly rotated in plan. Its inclined roof, approx. parallel to the ground, puts the building in relation to the existing types of country houses. The façades underline the volumetric appearance of the void, acting as eyes and observing the beauty of the landscape. The entry hall, the garden access, the dinning area, and the family den form the key activities within the void. A sculptural staircase and a double height space mark the centre and receive natural light through a large skylight. Since the chambers maintain their diverse and personal atmosphere, the voids are kept homogeneously with continuous materials. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5094-country-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5078-terrace-house

Meilen / Project 2001-2005 / Realization 2004-2005 / Stepped buildings are habitable rostrums – they serve as the perfect panorama setting. Facing mainly in one direction, they consist of a terrace, a glazed panorama side and a building volume that is buried in the slope. Stepped buildings are implants in two respects: their volume is buried into the slope and they have a Mediterranean flair untypical of the area in which they are built. These characteristics, which are greatly valued, have been reduced here to their basic components. The building has been fitted into the steep site as a severe, constructed raw concrete volume. A relationship between the building and the outside space has been kept to a minimum in order to emphasise the implant-like nature of the building, and is only visible on the terraces; the greenery that surrounds the building seamlessly becomes part of the adjoining meadow and vineyard.]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5078-terrace-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5068-housing-broelberg

Kilchberg / Competition 2001, 1st prize / Project 2001-2002 / Realization 2002–2003 / Gross Surface 7’500 m2 / Gross Volume 30’350 m3 / The Broëlberg housing complex was programmatically formulated to suit a total of 1% of the overall rental market. The client’s program defined an explicit type, with equality among the users as a requirement – a high-end housing for foreigners and expatriates unable to find residential conditions to match their expectations. The context for once was unique, virginal and untouched, in a private park – one of the last remaining protected retreats close to Zurich, with two designated areas in which the housing projects were to be built as two separate islands. The design provided a rigorous location for democratic divisions with vertical layering, ensuring that everyone would have an equal relation to the park. The vertical stacking expresses a menu, with superimposed living models, one on top of the other; a sunken infrastructure, an open-plan, a chamber work of individual rooms and a summerhouse on the roof. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5068-housing-broelberg HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5056-slope-house

Herrliberg / Project 2002 / Realization 2003 / Gross Surface: 550 m2 / Gross Volume: 2’800 m3 / A steep slope and a client who explicitly believes in flat surfaces. One singular gesture: a retaining wall, formulating a split, a section of the site; a division of upper and lower land. The basement storey contains the bedrooms, the adjoining rooms are partially buried and the garage is set even deeper into the slope. The living space is a horizontal section that is positioned so as to provide a wonderful view of Lake Zurich. In order to emphasise the different character of the bedroom- and living room storeys, these sections have been combined using one monumental gesture: A solid, dark concrete slab resting on the base mutates to form the rear wall and finally the large protrusion of the strong, flat roof. Together with the storey-high glazing on three sides and the terrace set in front of the building, an unbroken space is created with a magnificent cinemascope view of the panorama. A sloping wall section that follows the line of the stairway, only opening up in the living-room storey to provide a clear view, braces the ceiling board. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5056-slope-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5044-house-evg

Project 2000 / Realization 2001 / A house designed in a community defining an extreme restriction in terms of building code predetermines a given building envelope. The architectural strategy reflects the generic program of a mansion, a living on the ground and sleeping in the pitch, and reverses this condition into two horizons. The first is a base, incorporating all spatial need of individual rooms, such as office, guest and children areas freeing the second horizon completely of any spatial separation. The second level follows the given envelope and is conceived as an A – frame house. The ground level introverts itself and generates privacy. The upper A – frame allows a long distance view. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5044-house-evg HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5029-two-family-residence

Feldmeilen / Project 1999–2000 / Realization 2000 / On a two-directional slope, facing the lake of Zurich to the south-west and a vineyard to the north-east the objective of this project was to create two houses. Their program posed a problem since it was almost too big for the site. In order to avoid residual left-over, a continuously wrapped plane organizes the two houses in one large gesture. As a result the boundaries between the units are blurred and a series of terraces are created on each level. The slope of the site and the views both ofthe lake and the vineyard are the generating factors for the positioning and the specific articulation of the plane. Enclosed and open spaces are woven together in one ensemble with different levels of privacy or exposure and consequently, different foci in view, organizing their sequence. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5029-two-family-residence HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5022-villa-bethalden

Project 1999-2000 / Realization 2000 / Gross surface: 350 m2 / Gross volume: 2’000 m3 / A panoramic view with an ambiguous orientation, to the front the view, to the rear the sun. A Janus head, twenty-one by twenty-one meters, a good size to live on one floor. A platonic condition is made specific by two elliptical cut-outs, resulting in a series of vis-à-vis, the public and the private, the landscape and the building. Out - and indoor become integral programmatic parts, highly articulated. The garden reverses its role, no precious left-over, but two chambers rendering the idea of a garden that enters the house. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5022-villa-bethalden HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5011-type-house

Gipf-Oberfrick / Project 1999–2002 / Realization 2002 / Construction Cost: CHF 550’000.- per unit / Gross Surface: 193 m2 per unit / When designing a “Typenhaus” the parameters are, on one hand, loosely defined: no specific construction site, no definite client and a vague programme. On the other hand, to provide a solution for any conceivable circumstances, specific demands are made of the constructive design of the building system. The combination of these parameters makes uniform connecting elements essential, in order to enable the greatest degree of freedom when adding individual elements. At the same time, the spatial aspects should not be neglected. For this reason, spacious modules were created, in which the steel construction is both cost-effective and precise. A catalogue of building components has been created, which allows the clients to assemble the house according to their own needs. The completed prototype is a one-storey residential house, divided into several sections and surrounded by courtyards. The house functions both as a solitaire or as part of a dense, carpet-like housing estate. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/5011-type-house HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3222-werk-3

Winterthur / Invited competition 2009 / The project for a co-operative housing project is located on a former industrial area in the center of Winterthur. The building forms a big scale but structured volume responding to site’s manifold context. The use of the site’s margin allows the development of various types of apartments and establishes a contemplative urban courtyard which adds value on residential use. Inner balconies on the apartment levels and openings on the ground level provide intense connections to the private, collective and urban exteriors. The community hall occupies the center of complex; its shed roof rises into the courtyard interpreting the industrial legacy. ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3222-werk-3 HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3219-bungalow-houses

Küsnacht / Competition 2008 / The Hotel is a highly convenient form of serviced living and therefore will be used as a reference model for a serviced housing project. Two bungalow buildings with four apartments each are carefully integrated into the existing garden. The layouts of the apartments are set out generously. The buildings are completely surrounded by lush meadows and lawn. Their settings and the absence of sharp segregations against neighbors characterize the place as a spacious landscape and is reminiscent of New England Parkways.]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3219-bungalow-houses HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3202-apartment-building-altendorf

Altendorf / Competition 2007, 2nd prize / An architectural twofold encounter the complementary condition of the site: a beautiful but northern view, the sun in the rear and the close proximity of a noisy highway. The introduction of a wall house with a long garden acts as a noise protection. On the hilltop a compact apartment block occupies the highest point. Eight apartments interlock each other in order to connect every flat with the view and the sun.]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3202-apartment-building-altendorf HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3174-apartment-building-kraehbuehlstrasse

City of Zurich / Study 2006 / The property is situated in a priviledged residential area with a view over the City of Zurich and the lake. This project for residential building refers to the typology of initial Zurichberg houses of the Moderne and transfers it into a contemporary building. The Zurichberg house is characterized by its generous apartment layout, its orientation to the lake and the clear separation between day and night zones. Eight apartments are planned on three floors and an attic storey. Based on the City’s regulations for building outlines, limitations for balconies and oriels, a structure is developed which is characterized by its niches and alcoves on each floor. Shifting floors individually uncover the private outside space in the form of loggias, balconies, terraces or gardens and varies the layout of each apartment. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3174-apartment-building-kraehbuehlstrasse HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3166-office-and-apartment-building-leutschenbach

Zurich / Competition 2006 / Client: Arigon General Contractor / The North Tower project took place in the Northern outskirts of Oerlikon forming a future expansion field of Zurich’s space development. A site that is currently difficult to imagine for an extensive housing program. Garages, car parking, warehouses and the main studios of the Swiss Television define an extreme and rare temporality of context. Three programmatic parts, the office building, the ateliers and townhouses as well as the high rise condominium formulate a first “protagonist” urbanity through a close group of buildings and a resulting inner plaza. The position of the slender tower puts the existing high-rises in sequential order. The atelier and town houses are continuously set back and create a site familiar scale. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3166-office-and-apartment-building-leutschenbach HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3130-residental-building-katzenbach

Zurich / Competition 2005, 1st Prize / Gross Surface: 16’500m2 / Gross Volume: 87’500m3 / The site is located on a morphologically fractured site. Its main characteristic is the typological diversity of the buildings: in the surrounding area, every type of building can be found. Paradoxically, it is the single buildings loosely arranged in this heterogeneous location that have the greatest integrative strength. The four buildings continue the concept of the buildings already present, however they also have an unusual density, as well as creating a continuous, fluid outside space. Each of the apartments is designed as a sculptural unit across one storey, although the exterior gives no hint to the apartment’s size: The collective concept of a multi-family house has made way for more privacy. Balconies alternate with bay windows and are offset in such a way that on each of the storeys, intimate outdoor spaces are created that are protected from view. The deep balconies flanked by the outer walls and ceilings create an additional space, a threshold between inside and outside. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3130-residental-building-katzenbach HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3088-housing-ziegelmatte

Horgen / Selective Study 2002 / Project 2003 / Construction Budget: CHF 12 Mio. / The site: embedded in an agricultural zone; the program: a modern style living. How far could one drive an architecture that profoundly reflects a schizophrenic relationship of modern life, its attachments and dependencies versus an agricultural and romantic idyll with a complete abundance of settlement? The interpretation: the inner and outer condition; five houses with oscillating views, built with a solid oak façade, interpreting the cladding of farmer houses, territories that cut into the roofscape and open up individual private outdoor spaces, invisible to others. The outdoor space remains an agricultural surface, a cornfield where maintenance and technical cutting becomes design. ]]> Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?housing/3088-housing-ziegelmatte HOUSING http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5161-heinrich-boll-foundation

Berlin / Competition 2006, 1st prize / Project 2006-2007 / Realization 2007–2008 / Client: Heinrich Böll Foundation / Construction Cost: Euro 10.4 Mio. / The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90 - Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement and international understanding around the globe. The new building occupies the corner of a small city park. The design concept is both radical and pragmatic: based on a very minimal budget, it clearly prioritizes how much money should be spent in which areas. While the office storeys are organized efficiently and most economically, the spacious conference level cantilevers into the park and emphasises its function as the prestigious centre. It seems as though the inconspicuous office cube above the ground floor has been split in two and an elegant, tone-storey villa has been implanted into it – a combination that gives the building an appearance that is on the one hand more stately, yet on the other hand reserved, fitting to the mission of the Foundation. ]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5161-heinrich-boll-foundation PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5148-school-for-language-and-hearing

Zurich-Wollishofen / Competition 2003, 1st prize / Project 2006–2007 / Realization 2007–2008 / Client: Baudirektion Kanton Zurich / Construction Cost: CHF 3 Mio. / The park-like site is dominated by a authoritative old school building from the early twentieth century that has had many extensions added. The original competition design focused on a tower-like volume culminating with a bizarre studio rooftop, a crown like expression to form an emblematic expression that could resist the dominance of the old school. In 2005 the project got lost due to a radical reduction of the educational budget of the city. A year later the existing temporary pavilions started to leek. They asked us to replace the provisional pavilions with a new school building. The budget was a third of the former one, and the competition design could not be adapted. The new design focused on an extremely economical approach and stacks three identical floors. Just the ground level received the additional program of a gymnasium resulting in a one storey extension reminding the character of a pavilion. A undulated façade of untreated aluminium glades the building.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5148-school-for-language-and-hearing PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5141-sports-facilities-juchhof

Zurich-Alstetten / Competition 2005, 1st prize / Project 2005-2006 / Realization 2006-2007 / Client: City of Zurich / Construction Cost: CHF 13 Mio. / Thirteen football fields over 1500 meters in length are set alongside the motorway and the railway tracks. The new infrastructure served as a training facility during the European Football Championship in 2008 and will the standards for Corinthian football for the next decades. Two nearly identical buildings, three new synthetic turf football grounds, a workshop and a new surface parking were realized. The building structure is a modular and repetitive order to layout structure and rooms. The light elements of the outer facade, which surround the buildings and the training grounds, are standard meshes and are allowed a short construction time. The pragmatic construction and the use of extremely endurable materials form the concept to protect the building from any vandalism. The utilitarian usage and the highly economical budget target left nothing in place without an absolute and necessary need. ]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5141-sports-facilities-juchhof PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5131-community-hall

Stäfa / Competition 2005, 1st prize / Project 2005-2007 / Realization 2008-2010 / Construction Budget: CHF 9.3 Mio. / Client: City of Stäfa, Schulgemeinde / Within the context of a small school campus, the existing music hall and the communal library was to be replaced by a new extended program of a community center. An auditorium for 600 people and a public library had to be placed on the site of the existing building. Considering the new size and the new structural weight of the replacing program, the existing base was no longer capable of bearing loads from the top to the underground separation walls. Similar to a surgical operation, a sequence of massive walls was implemented in the underground plan, a few stiff anchors bear and lift the heavy volume of the auditorium. Between the existing base and the auditorium, a compressed and transparent space spans between triangulated load-bearing bodies. The perimeter glazing oscillates between the angular geometries and opens conic accesses and passages. The small network of the campus culminates in these compressed passages.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5131-community-hall PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5131-school-extension

Stäfa / Competition 2005, 1st prize / Project 2005-2007 / Realization 2008–2010 / Client: City of Stäfa, Schulgemeinde / in collaboration with Hans-Peter Kistler, artist / The existing school campus will be profoundly renovated. The two main school buildings and the inner campus landscape are part of a total renovation. The project interprets the architecture built in the 1970’s and organizes a new outer concrete skin. The existing inner recreational areas, the classrooms and the newly added group rooms generate a new and modern infrastructure.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5131-school-extension PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5121-day-school

Opfikon / Competition 2004, 1st prize / Project 2006-2008 / Realization 2009-2010 / Client: City of Opfikon / Construction Budget: CHF 20 Mio. / Two new buildings have been added to each side of the small campus and respond to the different urban settings: The low, wide volume of the competency center refers to the scale of the old town centre in the northeast. The day school is a striking, five-storey building situated on the southern border of the site. It forms a landmark directly opposite the new town that is currently developed. The school consists of three programmatic parts: A rostrum storey is located above the ground floor. It contains the shared space, which can be used for events and lunch breaks. From here, three separate flights of “cascading” stairs lead to the upper storeys, connecting the different grades individually. Due to the system of access each storey functions as a separate unit. ]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5121-day-school PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5109-regional-exhibition-tyrol-05

Innsbruck-Hall im Tirol / Competition 2003, 1st prize / Project 2003-2005 / Realization 2004–2005 / Client: Tiroler Kunsthalle / Construction Cost: EUR 2 Mio. / in collaboration with Via Lewandowsky, Artist and Schweingruber Zulauf Landscape architects / A hotel and a highway generate the key metaphors to design the National Tyrolean Exhibition working with the given theme of a paradoxical future of nature. The two metaphors allowed us to create a place where one while being abroad feels foreign and familiar at the same time. Inviting nature to a hotel constructs a new perception, a distorted role of guest play. The highway provides access to the hotel. It stands for the engineering genius and at the same time for its ecological madness. To use it as an entry demonstrates its continuous ambivalence. The paradox to give nature a temporality, to generate a context of personification means to construct this exhibition as an illusion, to draw a picture of nature as far away from the true sense of nature as possible.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5109-regional-exhibition-tyrol-05 PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5055-nouvelle-destination

City of Biel / Competition 1st prize / Realization 2001-2002 / Gross surface: 1000 m2 / Client: Federal Government of Switzerland / Construction Cost: CHF 7.4 Mio. / in collaboration with Via Lewandowsky, artist / Nouvelle DestiNation is an exhibition dealing with the political dialogue in Switzerland. It elaborates content on how people in Switzerland make politics and how they look into the future. We wanted to build a tent that avoids the perception of a total form. Movement and anticipation of the skin could be read and experienced as a performance, - a form of anticipation. The atmosphere of sport halls is being used to associate the concept of a dialogue. An independent headphone audio system individually tells stories and episodes of the present and future state of being. A translucent outer skin operates as a pneumatic system and the pressure within the shape can vary from 30 to 300 Pa., meaning it will change appearance in reaction to atmospheric elements. Changing pressure means a continuously labile status of structure, an ongoing dynamism, a system on a constant move.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/5055-nouvelle-destination PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3244-international-sports-center

Selective competition 2009 / client: City of Winterthur / Winterthur and the north-eastern area of Switzerland, with approximately 2.7 million residents is the most populated area in Switzerland. In this part, the number of sports complexes is extremely high but do not comply with the different needs of professional and non-professional athletes of different sports. The international centre for professional and amateur sports activities is planned to bring together these athletes nation- and worldwide and to make effective use of synergies. The new center is set aside the existing ice hall clearly marking itself as a new address for sports. Core of the facility is a non-stop sports landscape which exploits the static height of the training hall. Training, assistance, research, recreational and catering forms a universe of Sports. ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3244-international-sports-center PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3238-natural-history-museum

open competition 2009 / client: City of St. Gallen / The museum is developed by the idea of opposing the collected, pratically visual and lyrical exhibits to the geometric structure of the new building. A bold volume embraces the inner and contrary world of discovering and research. ]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3238-natural-history-museum PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3235-library-university-duisburg-essen

D-Essen / Selective competition 2009 / Client: University Duisburg-Essen / The library is formed by a simple and systematic organizational structure: Open learning levels and closed stacks compose a sequence of two opposing spatial protagonists. The massive stacks are the main structure providing in between an open unobstructed space which is dedicated to learning in various organizational forms.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3235-library-university-duisburg-essen PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3212-kunsthaus-zurich

Zurich / International selective competition 2008 / Client: Kunsthaus Zurich, Zuercher Kunstgesellschaft, Canton of Zurich / The new Kunsthaus forms an urban threshold between the existing Kunsthaus Zurich and Zurich’s university district. The new building’s core is a naturally lit vertical void. It acts as an orienting device, providing an overview of current exhibitions and activities, and it is dedicated to big scale art installations. Subsequently, a large outdoor open space functions as a stage for art allowing various curatorial possibilities and marking the prelude to the university district. The direct, sequential order: existing building, void and the stage for art, establishes an intense and multi-faceted interface for art and the public.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3212-kunsthaus-zurich PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3196-eth-lee

Zurich / Competition 2007, 2nd prize / Client: ETH Zurich / With direct proximity to the ETH main building of Gottfried Semper, the recent project of the ETH LEE encompasses a new series of extensions to densify the academic quarter in the center of Zurich. The delicate scale and the immanent exposure within the “crown” of Zurich’s silhouette made us design a building profiled with four volumetric setbacks. A horizontally organized connection forms an expressive piano noble connecting all the buildings nearby as well as acting as an internal podium of communication. The piano noble is linked to two dominant cores, one designed to concentrate all office communication and meeting functions, the other to form the library and study areas of the ETH Graphical Collection. The project elaborates an extreme sustainable building concept and operations with a maximum of sufficiency and effectivity.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3196-eth-lee PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3194-campus-brugg

Brugg-Windisch / Competition 2007, 2nd prize / Public Private Partnership with HRS General Contractor / Within the new given masterplan of the university campus, two buildings were designed to integrate the new spatial needs. Along the track field a highly densified faculty building organizes all classrooms and administrative programs, along the forum a three storey low building creates a new collective center integrating the main auditoriums, central library, the campus direction, shops and facilities. The design stresses a maximum of polarity between track field and the existing university buildings. The low center allows a maximal impact of the well-known existing architecture by Swiss architect Fritz Haller. The introduction of a subtle system of stairs bridges the considerable difference of topographic height and establishes a new common agenda as a stepped and framed outdoor landscape.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3194-campus-brugg PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3176-jva

Lenzburg / Total Contractor Competition 2007 / in collaboration with HRS General Contractor / The prison of Lenzburg is one of the few remaining five – star building configuration. The resulting panopticum and its perspective of the center is being considered a national heritage. The prison has been gradually extended. The five fingers have meanwhile extended “heads”. In order to maintain a respectful new extension, the servicing program will be removed from the five-star and integrated in a new freely standing service building. We design an industrial building with an optimized ratio of surface vs. façade. Since it was forbidden to produce any sight contact with the existing prison, the building became “blind”. Galvanized stressed sheet metal was used to create a continuous curtain allowing the introduction of daylight for the inner factory and servicing surfaces.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3176-jva PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3171-museum-schloessli

City of Aarau / Competition 2007 / in collaboration with Via Lewandowsky, artist / The New City Museum of Aarau is supposed to create an alliance with the existing Tower and Schloessli Museum. The collection of Aarau’s city development and historical tracking remains in the tower. The new extension combines functions of temporary exhibitions with the institution of the city forum resulting in an accessible podium for discussions and thematic exhibitions on the capitals identity. The design takes the aspect of synergy and combinatorial argumentation further and creates a “vitrine”. The highly transparent glass cube can be altered in any museological setup and performs as a place to be occupied. The achaic character of the Schloessli tower is encountered with a slender, highly reflective structure, slightly hovering over the medieval massivity.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3171-museum-schloessli PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3167-hafen-city-university

Hamburg / Competition 2006 / The new Technical University of Hamburg is placed at the harbor area. The massive change from an industrial harbor to a new city quarter asked to project a sense of urbanity to a beautiful place with a great view. In contrast to the commercial and office surfaces which are housed in form of slender and high volumes, the HCU is slightly rotated and accentuates on the pier’s edge.The HCU is structured with three solid, horizontal layers leaving three large spaces in-between. The idea is to concentrate faculty competences and to give form to these rings. The open ground level acts as a forum and gives access to the first ring which contains all the auditoriums and lecture rooms. We call the second and third layer the “laboratorium” and the “conservatorium”. Research, technology is a tactile, mechanical lab of innovation and experiment where else the conservatorium includes all the historical and cultural programs, forming the memory of technology and tradition.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3167-hafen-city-university PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3159-tabea

Horgen / Competition 2006, mention / The elderly housing complex at the present Tabea Center is a result of the growing and continuously adapted building. From the first building to the most recent alternation a collage of different architectures resulted. The new extension doubles the program and expands the complex to the north. A wing building is added to the existing buildings and forms a large and central main court. A new entry, the day and visitor area and the apartments are organized around the new court.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3159-tabea PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3113-werkhof

City of Biel / Competition 2004, 2nd prize / The project acts as a communal base for a wood construction and as a work shop building to organize for the purpose of maintaining the regional forests. The building is designed as a yard, establishing a continuous roof to integrate all program parts of working spaces, administration and shops as well as the profound maintenance surfaces. The facades structure the rhythm of primary wooden beams. Wood sheets, vertically oriented, fill the spans and create the possibility to look through the open structure. Only a few program parts are insulated and form “inhabited” boxes allowing to design a building that remains mainly transparent and open.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3113-werkhof PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3101-center-of-language-and-hearing

Competition 2003, 1st prize / realized after revision / The domination of the site by a bulky, authoritative old school building from the early twentieth century that has had many extensions added. In order to not detract from this building, the most recent extension has been set in the garden as a solitary building. The upper limitation of the tower-like volume with its polygonal site forms the jagged silhouette of the three-part shed roof. This characterises the building as a studio. Beneath the roof is a high, airy room, which is suitable for painting as well as music. The “crown” gives the relatively small building an emblematic shape and its own characteristic identity that can hold its ground against the main building. The uppermost multi-functional room completes the series of spacious common areas which are aligned in a different direction on each storey. The view changes the higher one goes.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3101-center-of-language-and-hearing PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3090-hotel-beau-rivage

Competition 2002, 1st prize / Project 2002-2003 / City of Biel / not realized / A competition for a prestigious hotel project was the first aftereffect of the Swiss Expo 02 event. The site had a long history of tries and errors. A political analysis showed an amazing bundle of newspaper articles; pictures of all kinds of hotels: curved ones, straight ones, metaphorical sails, balconies and appendix buildings to break down sizes along the shore. The given program was large in relation to the site nevertheless this place was really beautiful; dominated by a steep Jurassian rock, blankly washed and generating a narrow perspective along the lake shore drive to Neuchâtel, allowing a terrific view onto the lake of Biel. We wanted to use this complementary condition. A compressed building volume forming two sets of fronts: A north façade, as a tilted, closed and rough surface mirroring the rocks and long open frames to the distant view on the lakeside. A continuous massage of the volume allowed concentrating the entire program in one tower, excluding annex buildings on the site. Biel would become a new “sphinx” pointing out the beauty of landscape.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3090-hotel-beau-rivage PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3065-alptransit-visitor-center

Erstfeld and Poleggio / Selective Competition 2002, 3rd prize / The two sites on the North and South of the Alps emerge with two fundamentally different outlines: The North, in the middle of the construction area, points out the construction process; the South, remote and distant, focuses on the potential result. In the North, we proposed a space that reflects, like a mirror that plays with absence and presence, hectic and calm permanence and change; a place that can enhance the archaic myth of crossing the Alps, transforming the territory into a sensual experience. A center point of access opens a journey into windings. Water cooling pools, maintenance and truck access, electricity substations and switchboards become an integral part of a logistically produced landscape. In the South, the narrow site mutates into a vertical wall. Proximity and distance outline a thematic frame of the future condition. The project contains a passage, the finally expected exchange from North to South; a start and an end. It’s a journey into the darkness, an experience of time without orientation.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3065-alptransit-visitor-center PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3062-museum-of-modern-art

City of Bozen / Competition 2001 / in collaboration with Christian Müller, architect / Shifted volumes occupy a predominant connection between the inner city quarter and the edge of the Talferwiesen, the green core of Bozen. Within the difference of height the museum negotiates between the repositorian and transitory demands of the site, creating to the south a large place and using a continuous and subtle slope that connects to the higher city edge. The shifted volumes create a new presence along the Talferwiesen and balance the narrow site condition. The shifts extroverts strategically museum activities and allows views into the open public museum plaza. south.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3062-museum-of-modern-art PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3012-theater

City of Basel / Competition 1997, mention / in collaboration with OMA, Rotterdam / The new theatre of Basel was organized at the site of the entrance to the old theatre house. We placed our project as the new facade, not only for the old theatre, but for the whole square, on a heroic enterprise to regenerate an entire side of the rectangular urban void. The place was cascaded on three main levels by the 70's project. Each one of them was named after their heights: 9, 6 and 3, and the building was placed to negotiate access to the theatre complex through all three of them.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/3012-theater PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1215-marina-tiefenbrunnen

invited study 2008-09 / client: City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich / e 2 a's proposal for a new water sport center at Zurich's lakefront has been selected to be developed further in a masterplan. The proposal focuses on: unbundling the various agendas on the lakefront, centralizing water sport activities in a new water sports center and providing more access to Zurich's lakefront for the public.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1215-marina-tiefenbrunnen PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1108-viewing-tower

City of Biel / Project Study 2004 / The tower serves as a vertical landmark and forms the limiting border of the existing urban axis that connects the terminal building in the yacht harbour to the central square. In this way, the city is extended down to the lake and a visual dialogue is created between the new tower and the existing high-rise buildings, which heralded the new urban developments of the sixties. In addition, a large centre will be built in the quarter between the railway lines and the banks of the lake, an improvement scheme that began with the construction of the southern station square on the occasion of the Expo 02. The tower will be constructed in steel and will be painted and bolted together on site in the style of shipbuilding. Due to the honeycomb structure of the shell, whose rhombus sections have a bracing effect, the tower has a cage-, or aviary-like appearance. Three parallel layers have been positioned behind this coarsely meshed veil, linked in the centre by a double flight of cascade steps. The spacious, urban, precisely aligned sculptural stairway ends at the viewing platform.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1108-viewing-tower PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1043-expo-pavillon

City of Biel / Project Study 2000 / Client: Artistic Direction of Expo 02 / First study project for the Expo 02 event, Lake Park area of Biel. The project operates with a Cartesian grid containing a room by room exhibition scenario. The exhibition spaces are white cubes and allow an exhibition with approximately 15 individual artists.]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?public/1043-expo-pavillon PUBLIC http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5173-wust-and-wust-house

Zollikerberg / Project 2006–2007 / Realization 2007 / Renovation of the existing commercial and office building. The introduction of a new abstract membrane façade, acting as a permanent sun protection renders a new stringent appearance and corporate image. ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5173-wust-and-wust-house COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5161-heinrich-boll-foundation

Berlin / Competition 2006, 1st prize / Project 2006-2007 / Realization 2007–2008 / Client: Heinrich Böll Foundation / Construction Cost: Euro 10.4 Mio. / The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90 - Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement and international understanding around the globe. The new building occupies the corner of a small city park. The design concept is both radical and pragmatic: based on a very minimal budget, it clearly prioritizes how much money should be spent in which areas. While the office storeys are organized efficiently and most economically, the spacious conference level cantilevers into the park and emphasises its function as the prestigious centre. It seems as though the inconspicuous office cube above the ground floor has been split in two and an elegant, tone-storey villa has been implanted into it – a combination that gives the building an appearance that is on the one hand more stately, yet on the other hand reserved, fitting to the mission of the Foundation. ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5161-heinrich-boll-foundation COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5036-mlb-advertising-agency

Erlenbach / Realization 1999 / The Building for the new office space of an Advertising Agency formerly housed a printing business and later a retail store. The central theme of the project is expressed in the relationship between a landscape and a compartment strategy for defining office space. By separating the two major functional differences in the work of the agency, that is the consulting environment from the design environment, distinctly different approaches to the theme are articulated on the two floors. The consulting floor is organized by a central storage and circulation wall extending through the entire length of the space, dividing the floor in a more outwardly and an inwardly public area. The designers’ floor is structured by a sequence of enclosed volumes, generating large residues in which an open and flexible working landscape is established.]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/5036-mlb-advertising-agency COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3241-westlink

Zurich / invited competition, 2nd prize, 2009-10 / The development of office buildings took place far West of the City of Zurich, on the West Link area where different infrastructures on different scales and orientation coincide. Two different protagonists are set on the West Link Area: The Tower and the Cube. The tower acts superiorly, and is a significant addition to the emerging skyline of Zurich West, while the Cube defines the spatial small-scale configuration on the site. The West Link area becomes a hinge between the city and more urban district.]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3241-westlink COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3115-european-patent-office

The Hague / Competition 2004 / The EU Eastern enlargement has led to a flood of patent applications that far exceeds the previous capacities of the patent offices spread throughout different locations in Europe. The design concept proposes a large urban gesture: A «wall», 550m long, created using high-rise buildings of differing heights, marks the area transition between the city and the surrounding area. The numerous cellular offices needed for the academic inspectors have been lined up to form a slim, linear facility with a double-loaded structure. The horizontal distribution via conveyor belts and the orientation using building sectors is a reference to airports with their numbered gates. At the same time, the horizontal access area on the park level links the individual departments to one another and the employees are able to reach their offices and conference rooms via the vertical distributor.]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3115-european-patent-office COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3092-world-trade-organization

Geneva / International Competition 2003, 1st prize / Project 2003 / Gross surface: 20’000 m2 / Construction Budget: CHF 50 Mio. / The WTO Head Office along the shoreline of the Geneva bay left the impression of institutional traces, a meaningful place; embedded in a spectacular park, insinuating the daily battle of negotiation and agreement. In contrast, the site for the new annex building stretched off the Avenue de France along the railway track field – a hidden residue. An awkward concrete building and a temporary commercial warehouse frames the site. Finishing the site by completing the half of a missing building could no longer answer to the given morphology of spontaneously collaged building types. To juxtapose the potential of newness to the unfinished concrete rear resolved the programmatic discontinuity and produced a space that did not want to be perfect. Two vertical volumes emerge, precisely rotated, touching the track field edge. Embedded in a generous field of flowers, the remaining residue stays inaccessible, an untouchable horizon, a glance of luxury. ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3092-world-trade-organization COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3090-hotel-beau-rivage

City of Biel / Competition 2002, 1st prize / Project 2002-2003 / A competition for a prestigious hotel project was the first aftereffect of the Swiss Expo 02 event. The site had a long history of tries and errors. A political analysis showed an amazing bundle of newspaper articles; pictures of all kinds of hotels: curved ones, straight ones, metaphorical sails, balconies and appendix buildings to break down sizes along the shore. The given program was large in relation to the site nevertheless this place was really beautiful; dominated by a steep Jurassian rock, blankly washed and generating a narrow perspective along the lake shore drive to Neuchâtel, allowing a terrific view onto the lake of Biel. We wanted to use this complementary condition. A compressed building volume forming two sets of fronts: A north façade, as a tilted, closed and rough surface mirroring the rocks and long open frames to the distant view on the lakeside. A continuous massage of the volume allowed concentrating the entire program in one tower, excluding annex buildings on the site. Biel would become a new “sphinx” pointing out the beauty of landscape. ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3090-hotel-beau-rivage COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3089-sudpark

City of Basel / Selective Competition 2002 / Client: City of Basel and SBB (Swiss Railway Real Estate Group) / in collaboration with: Burckhardt Partner Architects / The South Park is an urban edge facing the main station in Basle. The “Gundelinger” quarter is one of niches, rich in diversity and mixed cultures. The recently inaugurated large shopping bridge by Cruz and Ortis declared this new ambition to commercialize and to densify the edge along the track field. A given envelop provoked a forward leaning tower, casting a minimal amount of shadow to the small scale quarter. We defined vertical zones; filets we call them, formulating interplays of the large requested typical program parts: housing and office. Punctually we introduced a core-related program that could enrich the programmatic mix and take advantage of the spectacular view and exposure.]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3089-sudpark COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3076-maison-du-sport

Lausanne / Competition 2001, 3rd prize / in collaboration with Xavier Calderon, architect / A simple sequence of identical buildings reflect a collective space and a continuity of surfaces. The concept reflects the principle of reflection to adapt scale and dimension of an individual building to a coherent ensemble. The choice to design uniform building heights for the total ensemble and a strict uniform repetition of buildings allow identifying a greater idea of a center. In this way the design strategy passes the applied building code of required small scale individual buildings and adapts it to a relatively big program of an international compound of sport federations. ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?commercial/3076-maison-du-sport COMMERCIAL http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/7134-deltametropol

Leiden / Urban Study 2005 / in collaboration with: Holland Rijnland, Deltametropol, TU Delft / This urban study underlies the Vinex Plan that was released by the Government and grants the opportunity to leave cities for a better, suburban life. The plan foresees new exspansion fields, generally along edges of cities with a recent construction program of 360’000 units until 2010. Valkenburg, the former airport of the Royal Dutch Family, also became available for a new development. The site was neither urban nor countryside, neither central nor peripheral. Arcadia is the counterpart of metropolis, and its image and the representation of Dutch landscape are still strongly identified with it. We used the arcadian condition to employ spatial qualities in the planning process. We superposed multiple layers of traffic on the existing runway, introduced filter pools between the taxi ranks and the main runway, and nominated the punctual sites where a high-rise scenario could be best placed. The largest area of the site would no longer be maintained, but clearly outlined as an arcadian “bush”.]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/7134-deltametropol URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/3190-dreispitz

City of Basel / Competition 2007 / in collaboration with: Nipkow Landschaftsarchitektur / The University of Art will be implemented in an industrial area near the main center of Basel. The program will be distributed similar to a campus like organization. The main auditorium and the university administration are placed in a central new building. Ateliers and workshops for artists and complementary housing are interpreted with the existing or slightly alternated buildings. ]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/3190-dreispitz URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/3089-sudpark

City of Basel / Selective Competition 2002 / Client: City of Basel and SBB (Swiss Railway Real Estate Group) / in collaboration with: Burckhardt Partner Architects / The South Park is an urban edge facing the main station in Basle. The “Gundelinger” quarter is one of niches, rich in diversity and mixed cultures. The recently inaugurated large shopping bridge by Cruz and Ortis declared this new ambition to commercialize and to densify the edge along the track field. A given envelop provoked a forward leaning tower, casting a minimal amount of shadow to the small scale quarter. We defined vertical zones; filets we call them, formulating interplays of the large requested typical program parts: housing and office. Punctually we introduced a core-related program that could enrich the programmatic mix and take advantage of the spectacular view and exposure.]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/3089-sudpark URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1198-richti-areal

Zurich-Wallisellen / Competition 2007, 2nd prize / Client: Allreal / in collaboration with: Angelus Eisinger and Müller Landschaftsarchitekten / Seemingly linked and in the shadow of the prominent city of Zurich positioned, a conglomerate of communities are forming a continuous belt of urbanization. In contrast to the core related main city, this one is credited to be the anti-system of Zurich. What Zurich doesn’t want or would consider unthinkable, can be realized. The rapid and aggressive growth of the region creates a city scape and declares its geographic midpoint the 7th successful city of Switzerland: Wallisellen. The new masterplan of the Richti Areal provides a large event and congress hall for approx. 30’000 people. Its proximity to Switzerland’s most successful shopping center and the availability of highway and subway connection allow an implementation of housing program and further extensions the an area with the most frequent presence of headquaters. ]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1198-richti-areal URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1168-escher-wyss

City of Zurich / Masterplan 2006-2007, 1st Prize / Zurich Wests’ densification underlies two parameters: first, this part of the city with its planned high-rise buildings will be transformed into a metropolitan quarter, second, Zurich will try to keep the present industrial production in order to profit from the attraction of highly qualified working places. This industrial presence does not negate a coexistence of any kind of complementary program at all. The West generated its attractiveness truly through a mix of cultural and commercial activities that are juxtaposed, integrated or associated with a dominating architectural and logistical presence of industry. The compensation of the low density of industrial halls causes a densification taking place on the outer edges, on minimal remaining footprints, outside of logistical impacts. Exploring the height becomes symptomatically the only mechanism to multiply the granted surfaces. The result is a fairly accidental placement of towers. The towers are consequently less a landmark but a result of a more site specific motivation: a “contextual” form of locally based high-rises on a relatively compact scale.]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1168-escher-wyss URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1145-sulzer

City of Winterthur / Selective Study 2005 / Client: Sulzer Immobilien AG / The former global producer of metal gears and engines are faced with a new scale. There is no longer a capacity or the use of the large span halls. Also, the city of Winterthur has no demand for large scale operations that could support the reuse of these impressive halls. This study evaluates the future possibilities of hall 52 and 53 of Sulzer Industries. Hall 52 stands under protection. We proposed a reuse with smaller office compartments easily to phase. The compartments are constructed as self contained modules and therefore a substantial renovation would not be necessary. Hall 53 is available for a new planning scenario. We proposed a housing project in the form of a small tower hovering above the existing hall, providing a highly urban living model. The continuous façade along the Katharina Sulzer Place enfolds the strength of the public passage. Tower and hall are architectonically separated. The silhouette keeps three larger high rises in Winterthur and adds a compact volume that refers in size and shape to the industrial plant.]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1145-sulzer URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1095-kloten

City of Kloten / Study 2003 / Client: City of Kloten / Kloten is “the airport town” of Zurich, a small commuter place that is best connected to the City of Zurich and the Airport Zurich. Examing the urban development of Kloten, it shares the same result as most former villages and small towns in the periphery of Zurich: The “regional planning” resulted in forgotten centers, closed shops, no public places, no central activities, a few farm houses left, a city office and pieces of lawns. So, what would be the quality of a city maintaining a peripheral center? The open space was the source of the initial quarrels. There were neither ideas of strong, visible actions nor any ambitions to keep the space blank, just fractal residues. Our strategy incooperated to represent the unbuilt as a valid partner to the built; resulting in a tentacle space, branching out to the solid edges of the center, seaming the bits of open space with a polarizing menu, for example: cows and cars, shopping and farms, finally, a new common ground connects the set high-rise buildings.]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?urban/1095-kloten URBAN http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7134-deltametropol

Leiden / Urban Study 2005 / in collaboration with: Holland Rijnland, Deltametropol, TU Delft / This urban study underlies the Vinex Plan that was released by the Government and grants the opportunity to leave cities for a better, suburban life. The plan foresees new exspansion fields, generally along edges of cities with a recent construction program of 360’000 units until 2010. Valkenburg, the former airport of the Royal Dutch Family, also became available for a new development. The site was neither urban nor countryside, neither central nor peripheral. Arcadia is the counterpart of metropolis, and its image and the representation of Dutch landscape are still strongly identified with it. We used the arcadian condition to employ spatial qualities in the planning process. We superposed multiple layers of traffic on the existing runway, introduced filter pools between the taxi ranks and the main runway, and nominated the punctual sites where a high-rise scenario could be best placed. The largest area of the site would no longer be maintained, but clearly outlined as an arcadian “bush”.]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7134-deltametropol STUDIES http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7000-eden

Once, the city was known to be the center of the world. Without it, nothing would exists. City life was civilized life. Eden, for once, was no garden. It was a city, but unlike the biblical version from which humanity had been for ever banished, this Eden had been created specifically to give people a reason for existing. All prosperous forecasts that the city will have an even more significant part to play in the future that it has played in the past are a careless underestimation of its ingenious reality. Eden was the first City. It will always be there, but essentially, Eden does not have a size, it always fits, even if it does not have to. ]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7000-eden STUDIES http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7087-mieseology

Mieseology is an ongoing study using the architecture of Mies von der Rohe as merely generic and modern material to test and experiment urban and architectural constellations. The development of these ideas is liberated from a predominant expression of architecture. The series of collages are juxtapositions of a “known” and an “unquestionable” standard of architecture vis – à – vis the risky energy to speculate on architectural and contextual strategies. The applied collage technique is an instrument to reflect and to question given objections and to transform them into a new context. The result intends to express possible and new configurations of well-known architectural decisions. The fact that a chosen and existing condition is strategically manipulated, separates the original from its predominant role of context.]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7087-mieseology STUDIES http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7072-box-rule

The increasing luxury property market places concepts for those people who come from the renting market and finally buy a property. In this spectrum a maximum difference to the renting model attracts most. Advertising focuses on the place, the size and the multiplicity of sleeping and bathing rooms to praise its uniqueness; we started to investigate the consequences of the following (maximum) condition: a sanitary unit for each sleeping room. What would be the real potential in organizing such a plan and what would be the impact for the programmatic rest, the “living”? We created self sustaining clusters and shifted them around. As a result, the simple adjacency of the served and the serving allows one to use a sleeping room like a hotel room. Inside one finds privacy and outside a new freedom to address a living free of intimacy issues. Regardless of size, type and exposure, Box Rule is a simple model to organize the two ultimately different conditions of housing: The private room and the continuous living.]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?studies/7072-box-rule STUDIES http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/information-and-contact

For press/public relations contact: Monika Annen t. + 41 43 444 40 13 man(at)e2a.ch]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/information-and-contact PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/iw-magazine-on-lakeside-house

Lakeside House, in: IW Magazine, No. 75, 2010, page 24-29]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/iw-magazine-on-lakeside-house PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/e2a-lecture-at-eth-zurich

E2A lecture at the Department for Architecture, ETH Zurich: Tuesday, March 16th, 2009M at 6 pm ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/e2a-lecture-at-eth-zurich PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/tectonica-no31-2009

Garcia-Setién Diego. Fundacion Heinrich Böll. in: Tectonica, energia (II), No. 31, 2009, page 74-89. The special issue on sustainable design features the headquarter of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the forefront of ecologcial design in the field of modern office and conference buildings. ]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/tectonica-no31-2009 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/ville-in-svizzera

Ville in Svizzera. ed. Mercedes Daguerre, Electa Mondadori, Milan. 2009 Selected residental buildings of emerging and renown Swiss architects, provide insights into recent developments in the Swiss architectural debate.]]> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/ville-in-svizzera PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-e2a-serien-2004-09

ed. Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof Stuttgart, 127 pages, in color, Spurbuchverlag ISBN-10: 3887783417, ISBN-13: 978-3887783419 ]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-e2a-serien-2004-09 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architecture-of-change-2

Architecture of Change 2. Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. ed. Kristin Feireiss, Lukas Feireiss. Verlag Die Gestalten, Berlin. This publication presents a broad range of environmentally mindful concepts that are not only outstanding architectonically but also devoted to regional environmental and social conditions as well as their global impact.]]> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architecture-of-change-2 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/arq-12009-cambridge-university-press-made-in-switzerland

Platt, Christopher and Spier, Steven. Lighting the blue touch paper, and building well, arq. architecture research quarterly. Cambridge University Press. 1.2009, page 20-25. The culture of quality construction in Switzerland has influenced three generations of architects in initiating and sustaining their design processes. e 2 a rethinks the role of architects and priorities in the architectural practice. ]]> Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/arq-12009-cambridge-university-press-made-in-switzerland PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/inside-magazine-e2a-on-zurich

Visions and Reality. Inside Magazine Switzerland, No.10, 2009, page 58. A questionnaire on Zurich's architecture and urban planning culture.]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/inside-magazine-e2a-on-zurich PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/ronorop-e2a-on-zurich

A questionnaire on Zurich's architecture and urban planning culture.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/ronorop-e2a-on-zurich PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/yearbook-200809-federal-office-for-building-and-regional-planning

Laubach, Birgit. Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin. Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning Yearbook 2008/09. ed. Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Bonn. Junius Verlag GmbH, Hamburg.]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/yearbook-200809-federal-office-for-building-and-regional-planning PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monocle-1902

E2A was selected for Monocle hot list: design firms to watch in 2009. Ones to watch in 2009. Monocle, No. 19, vol.02, December 08/January 09, page 123.]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monocle-1902 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/n-tv-march-10th11th-2009

The coverage shows E2A's recent projects, it includes interviews with Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert talking about various aspects of their work and it takes a closer look at the Triangle House in Winterthur. broadcasted on n-tv: March 10th and 11th, 2009.]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/n-tv-march-10th11th-2009 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/archithese-12009

Hasche, Katja. Drei Ecken hat das Haus. archithese, No. 1.2009, page 52-55.]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/archithese-12009 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/the-phaidon-atlas-of-21st-century-world-architecture

Terrace Housing. in: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. page 467]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/the-phaidon-atlas-of-21st-century-world-architecture PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-4308

Nils Ballhausen: Heinrich-Böll-Stifftung. in: Bauwelt 43.08, page 18-23]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-4308 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/best-architects-09

Triangle House, in: 09 best architects Germany/Austria/Switzerland, zinnobergruen (editors) page 38-41]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/best-architects-09 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/domus-china

Densified Constellation, in: Domus China, No. 26, 10.08, page 6-11 The new Centre for Hearing and Language (a school for aurally handicapped and deaf children) was featured in the November issue of domus China.]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/domus-china PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung

Niklas Maak: Vom grünen Schimmer der Moderne, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 9th 2008, page 37]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-2608

Nils Ballhausen: Triangel Haus, in: Bauwelt, No. 26.08, page 30-33]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-2608 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/the-5th-city

Piet Eckert, Ying Jun, Keizo Okamoto: Design proposal for the Valkenburg area, in: The 5th City, G. Bruyns, A. van Nes, C. Pinilla, R. Rocco and H. J. Rosemann (editors), Delft University of Technology, page 155-162]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/the-5th-city PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-2108

Ulrich Brinkmann: Der ideale Kontext - Werkschau von E2A in der Architekturgalerie Werkraum, in: Bauwelt, No. 21.08, page 4-5]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/bauwelt-2108 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/best-architects-08

Terrace Housing, in: 08 best architects Germany/Austria/Switzerland, zinnobergruen (editors) page 14-17]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/best-architects-08 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/faces-helvetica

Andreas Scheiwiller: Six tiroirs, in: Faces Helvetica, No. 64, page 68-71]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/faces-helvetica PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-907

Garderobengebäude Sportanlage Juchhof, in: Werk, Bauen+Wohnen, September 2007, werk-material]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-907 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/1000-x-european-architecture

Terrace Housing, in: 1000 x European Architecture, Verlagshaus Braun Berlin]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/1000-x-european-architecture PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architecture-in-switzerland

Broëlberg, in: Architecture in Switzerland, ed. Philip Jodidio, Taschen Verlag Köln A new architecture series by Taschen features architectural trends by country.]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architecture-in-switzerland PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/density

2nd edition, Broëlberg 4-6. Kilchberg, in: Densidad/Density, Nueva Vivienda Colectiva/New Collective Housing. a+t ediciones Vitoria-Gasteiz, page 52-57]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/density PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-15-de-aedibus-e2a

15 De aedibus. E2A, Quart Verlag Luzern Foreword by Heinz Wirz and text contributions by Christoph Wieser.]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-15-de-aedibus-e2a PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/10x10_2

Kurt W. Forster: Architecture is the Answer. What was the Question, in: 10x10_2. 100 Architects. 10 Critics, Phaidon Press London]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/10x10_2 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architectural-papers-i-object-laboratory

Piet Eckert: The Antikontext, in: Architectural Papers I. object laboratory, ed. Chair Prof. Dr. Josep Lluis Mateo, ETH Zürich, Editorial Gustavo Gili Barcelona]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architectural-papers-i-object-laboratory PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/das-hotel-die-mauer

Piet Eckert and Via Lewandowsky: Zukunft als vielschichtiges Erlebnis inszenieren. In: Das Hotel. Die Mauer. Die Zukunft der Natur. Das Buch, ed. Martin Heller and Benedikt Erhard, Tappeiner Verlag Lana]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/das-hotel-die-mauer PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/av-monografiasmonographs

Casas ecalonadas. Meilen (Suiza), Stepped Houses, Meilen (Switzerland), in: AV Monografías/Monographs, No. 116 Peripheral assemblages: Though suburban growth is immediately associated to the routinary repetition of single-familiy attached dwellings. Some architects reivindicate giving these recurrent enviroments a second chance. e 2 a ' s target was to recover the essence and the credibility of the stepped and terraced building. ]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/av-monografiasmonographs PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/tectonica-no31-2004

Vincente Sarrablo: La construction de formas complejas, in: Tectónica, No. 17]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/tectonica-no31-2004 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/au-architecture-and-urbanism

Featured Architect. e2a eckert eckert architects, in: a+u. Architecture and Urbanism, No. 379]]> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/au-architecture-and-urbanism PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/densidaddensity

Broëlberg 4-6. Kilchberg, in: Densidad/Density, Nueva Vivienda Colectiva/New Collective Housing. a+t ediciones Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2004, page 20-23]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/densidaddensity PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/arquitectura-viva

Edén de hormigón. Conjunto residencial Broëlberg. Kilchberg, in: Arquitectura Viva, No. 97]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/arquitectura-viva PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/archithese

Christoph J. Bürkle: Zwischen Vision und Realität. e2a: Wohninseln Broëlberg, Kilchberg, in: Archithese, 1.2004]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/archithese PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-wohnbauten-am-broelberg

Wohnbauten am Broëlberg, Verlag Niggli Sulgen]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/monograph-wohnbauten-am-broelberg PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-303

Andreas Janser: Seeturm. Projektwettbewerb See- und Kongresshotel Beau-Rivage, Biel, in: Werk, Bauen+Wohnen, No. 3]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-303 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-403

Prozess statt Projekt, SüdPark Basel, in: Werk, Bauen+Wohnen, No. 4, page 58-60]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/werk-bauenwohnen-403 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architektur-fassaden

Ulrike Schettler: Das Seufzen der Hybriden, in: Architektur, No. 2, 2003]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/architektur-fassaden PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/traces

Hôtel Bau-Rivage à Bienne, in: Tracés, No. 14]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/traces PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/imagination

Pascal Rebetez: Nouvelle Destination. Ein Staat zum Mitreden, in: ImagiNation, Das Offizielle Buch der Expo.02, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung ]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/imagination PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/expo02

Nouvelle Destination, in: Expo.02. Die Ausstellung des Bundes, page 86-91]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?pub/expo02 PUB http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/how-to-apply

If you are interested in working for e 2 a, please send your letter of motivation, CV and samples of your work to: job(at)e2a.ch (file format: PDF, max. 2 MB). Please be aware that the response can take up to three months. Consider that portfolio’s send by mail will not be returned. Contact: e2a eckert eckert architekten ag Patricia Ruch / HR Hardturmstrasse 76 CH-8005 Zürich]]> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/how-to-apply JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/positions-for-interns

We have positions for interns available. We are looking for talented and ambitious interns. Your design skills are excellent, your design tools include a good knowledge of 3d software applications and you have AutoCAD experience. If you are eager to work in a good team then apply to us with a pdf file not larger than 2 MB.]]> Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/positions-for-interns JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/hochbauzeichnerin

Sie sind ein(e) engagierte(r) HochbauzeichnerIn mit mindestens 3 Jahren Berufspraxis in der Schweiz. Sie sind interessiert an der Umsetzung von komplexen Bauvorhaben und übernehmen gerne die selbstständige Bearbeitung eines Teilbereiches innerhalb eines Projektes. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/hochbauzeichnerin JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/projektarchitektin-ausfuhrung

ArchitektIn ETH/FH/USI. Sie sind ein(e) versierte(r) und engagierte(r) AusführungsarchitektIn mit mindestens 3 Jahren Berufspraxis in der Schweiz. Sie zeichnen sich aus durch gute konzeptionelle, konstruktive Fähigkeiten, und können dabei hohe gestalterische Ansprüche miteinbeziehen. Weiter verfügen Sie über profunde Kenntnisse in AutoCAD und MS-Office. Sie sind eine teamfähige und selbstbewusste Person welche anspruchsvolle architektonische Aufgaben selbstständig umsetzen kann. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/projektarchitektin-ausfuhrung JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/projektarchitektin-entwurf

ArchitektIn ETH/FH/USI. Sie sind ein(e) kreative(r) und engagierte(r) EntwurfsarchitektIn mit mindestens 3 Jahren Berufspraxis in der Schweiz. Sie zeichnen sich durch herausragende konzeptionelle, entwerferische und grafische Fähigkeiten aus und haben versierte Kenntnisse in AutoCAD, Photoshop und 3D-Software Anwendungen. Sie sind eine teamfähige und selbstbewusste Person und suchen anspruchsvolle architektonische Aufgaben. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/projektarchitektin-entwurf JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/pprojektleiterin

ArchitektIn ETH/FH. Sie sind eine kommunikative, teamorientierte und belastbare Persönlichkeit mit hohem Qualitätsanspruch. Sie verfügen über mindestens 5 Jahre Schweizer Berufserfahrung in Projektleitung, Ausführungs- und Detailplanung sowie Projektrealisierung. Sie haben sehr gute Kenntnisse in AutoCAD, MS-Office, Terminplanung und führen gerne projektbezogen ein Team. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?jobs/pprojektleiterin JOBS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0081-1st-prize-baufeld-h-europa-allee-zurich

invited competition 2009-2010 / 1st prize / client: SBB Real Estate Development / The project for the mixed-use building aims to set new standards for urban sustainability and to gain a pioneering role in establishing Zurich’s 2000-watt society. The site (Baufeld H) is close to the central station and faces the small scale quarter of the Langstrasse. The complex will house apartments, retail, gastronomy and office spaces. Along the Langstrasse the 25h Designhotel will mark decisively it presence. The project will comply with the Swiss Minergie P-Eco Standard and will be among the first buildings in Europe to operate with a zero CO2 emission. Energy sources (for heating and cooling) are sun, rain water and the waste heat. The ecological goals include a socio-cultural aspects and integrates services, affordable commercial premises and public spaces linked to its direct neighborhood. Inauguration is foreseen for 2016.]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0081-1st-prize-baufeld-h-europa-allee-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0080-1st-prize-multi-family-house

invited competition 2010 / 1st prize / private client / A site with two sides: a lake view at the front and the sun at the rear. The apartment layouts balance and dissolve the site’s seemingly contradictory conditions. The new building will include six 4.5-bedroom apartments.]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0080-1st-prize-multi-family-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0079-under-construction-auditorium-staefa

The façade and main interior work has been completed. Completion in September 2010.]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0079-under-construction-auditorium-staefa NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0078-completion-school-centre-opfikon

The School Centre Opfikon has been completed. The centre is part of the extension of the school campus Lättenwiese. The extension foresees two buildings added on the edges of the campus connecting the old town of Opfikon with the emerging area Zurich North, and thus creating a new urban orientation of the school campus. The low, wide volume of the School Centre refers to the scale of the old town. The new building is a hybrid and combines educational, social and administrative agendas such as a kindergarten, therapy (e.g. speech therapy) and office spaces. The wide corridors, with their parallel set open spaces, establish a solid element within the building and maintain a network of the school and its educational and administrative services under one roof. ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0078-completion-school-centre-opfikon NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0077-iw-magazine-on-lakeside-house

Lakeside House, in: IW Magazine, No. 75, 2010, page 24-29]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0077-iw-magazine-on-lakeside-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0076-teaching-hcu-design-reviews-summer-semester-2010

Prof. Piet Eckert, Prof. Wim Eckert, visiting professors for Architecture and Sustainable Design Bachelor Thesis: Social Club, July 7th, 2010 studio critics: Prof. Piet Eckert, Prof. Wim Eckert, David Leuthold (architect, pool architekten, Zurich), Thilo Folkerts (landscape architect, 100 Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin) Master: Superhousing, July 22nd, 2010 studio critics: Prof. Piet Eckert, Prof. Wim Eckert, Prof. Dott. Arch. Paolo Fusi (HCU), Dieter Polkowski (Director Project HafenCity), Emanuel Christ (architect, Christ & Gantenbein, Basel)]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0076-teaching-hcu-design-reviews-summer-semester-2010 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0075-open-position-hochbauzeichnerin Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0075-open-position-hochbauzeichnerin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0074-open-position-projektarchitektin-ausfuehrung Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0074-open-position-projektarchitektin-ausfuehrung NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0073-open-position-projektarchitektin-entwurf Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0073-open-position-projektarchitektin-entwurf NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0072-open-position-projektleiterin Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0072-open-position-projektleiterin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0071-2nd-prize-westlink

Zurich / invited competition, 2nd prize, 2009-10 / The development of office buildings took place far West of the City of Zurich, on the West Link area where different infrastructures on different scales and orientation coincide. Two different protagonists are set on the West Link Area: The Tower and the Cube. The tower acts superiorly, and is a significant addition to the emerging skyline of Zurich West, while the Cube defines the spatial small-scale configuration on the site. The West Link area becomes a hinge between the city and more urban district.]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0071-2nd-prize-westlink NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0070-project-international-sports-center

Winterthur / selective competition 2009 / client: City of Winterthur / Winterthur and the north-eastern area of Switzerland, with approximately 2.7 million residents is the most populated area in Switzerland. In this part, the number of sports complexes is extremely high but do not comply with the different needs of professional and non-professional athletes of different sports. The international centre for professional and amateur sports activities is planned to bring together these athletes nation- and worldwide and to make effective use of synergies. The new center is set aside the existing ice hall clearly marking itself as a new address for sports. Core of the facility is a non-stop sports landscape which exploits the static height of the training hall. Training, assistance, research, recreational and catering forms a universe of Sports. ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0070-project-international-sports-center NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0069-project-werk-3

Winterthur / Invited competition 2009 / The project for a co-operative housing project is located on a former industrial area in the center of Winterthur. The building forms a big scale but structured volume responding to site’s manifold context. The use of the site’s margin allows the development of various types of apartments and establishes a contemplative urban courtyard which adds value on residential use. Inner balconies on the apartment levels and openings on the ground level provide intense connections to the private, collective and urban exteriors. The community hall occupies the center of complex; its shed roof rises into the courtyard interpreting the industrial legacy. ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0069-project-werk-3 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0068-topping-out-ceremony-auditorium-staefa

The structural work for Auditorium (with library on the ground level) has been completed. Completion in September 2010.]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0068-topping-out-ceremony-auditorium-staefa NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0067-project-bungalow-houses

Study / The Hotel offers a highly convenient form of living and therefore will be used as a reference model for a serviced housing project. Two bungalow buildings with four apartments each are carefully integrated into the existing garden. The layouts of the apartments are set out generously. The buildings are completely surrounded by lush meadows and lawn. Their settings and the absence of sharp segregations against neighbors characterize the place as a spacious landscape and is reminiscent of New England Parkways.]]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0067-project-bungalow-houses NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0066-teaching-hcu-program-springsummer-2010

Program semester courses: Master: Superhousing Bachelor: Social Club Optional courses I: Megastructure Optional courses II: Meeting the former Generation ad hoc exercises: New Territory 1-3 Since October 2009 Piet and Wim Eckert are appointed visiting professors for Architecture and sustainable Design (Bachelor's and Master's Degree) at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU).]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0066-teaching-hcu-program-springsummer-2010 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0065-e2a-lecture-at-eth-zurich

E2A lecture held at the Department for Architecture, ETH Zurich is online.]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0065-e2a-lecture-at-eth-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0064-tectonica-on-heinrich-boell-foundation

Garcia-Setién Diego. Fundacion Heinrich Böll. in: Tectonica, energia (II), No. 31, 2009, page 74-89. The special issue on sustainable design features the headquarter of the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the forefront of ecologcial design in the field of modern office and conference buildings. ]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0064-tectonica-on-heinrich-boell-foundation NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0063-ville-in-svizzera-features-country-house

Ville in Svizzera. ed. Mercedes Daguerre, Electa Mondadori, Milan. Selected residental buildings of emerging and renown Swiss architects, provide insights into recent developments in the Swiss architectural debate.]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0063-ville-in-svizzera-features-country-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0062-project-headquarters-for-a-high-tech-company

E2A realizes the Swiss headquarters for a high-tech company, which will provide space for research, development and production of devices in the field of sensor technology. The building sets new standards in corporate ecology and sustainability. Construction will start June 2010. ]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0062-project-headquarters-for-a-high-tech-company NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0061-project-condominium-stmoritz

E2A designs a condominium in St. Moritz, which combines the uniqueness of the alpine panorama with an new ecological vanguard.]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0061-project-condominium-stmoritz NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0060-lecture-eth-zurich

E2A lecture at the Department for Architecture, ETH Zurich: Tuesday, March 16th, 2009 at 6 pm ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg HIL Building, Auditorium E4 Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15 8093 Zürich Hönggerberg ]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0060-lecture-eth-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0059-completion-refurbishment-old-school-building-zgsz

Zurich-Wollishofen / Realization 2009–2010 / Client: Baudirektion Canton Zurich / The interior of the old school building from the early twentieth century has gone through many renovations over the years. The aim was to trace back to the building's unique qualities and reestablish it as one unit. Cores of the refurbishment were: the restoration of original light and spatial qualities and the recovery yet new interpretation of the orginal used colors. Necessary new fittings such as staircases are clearly visible as individual components within the building. ]]> Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0059-completion-refurbishment-old-school-building-zgsz NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0058-1st-prize-new-apostolic-church-zurich

competition 2009-10 / The project in Zurich-South merges a church with apartments. The site is characterized by small-scale residential houses next industrial buildings. In contrast, the building is developed as one coherent volume, including a community church with classrooms and 20 apartments. ]]> Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0058-1st-prize-new-apostolic-church-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0057-2nd-prize-natural-history-museum-stgallen

open competition 2009 / client: City of St. Gallen / The museum is developed by the idea of opposing the collected, pratically visual and lyrical exhibits to the geometric structure of the new building. A bold volume embraces the inner and contrary world of discovering and research. ]]> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0057-2nd-prize-natural-history-museum-stgallen NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0056-opening-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof

The exhibition focuses on planned and realized projects of the past five years. Models from the office archive are installed in various perspectives revealing the specific qualities of the projects. The installation uncovers similarities and differences - key subjects of E2A’s architectural research become visible. In addition, a selection of technical drawings provides a profound insight in the office’s work. address: am Weissenhof 30, Stuttgart opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 2 pm - 6 pm Sunday 12 am - 5 pm]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0056-opening-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0055-invitation-exhibition-opening-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof

lecture by Piet Eckert: Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 7 pm Staatliche Akadmie für Bildende Künste Neubau 2, am Weissenhof 1, Stuttgart exhibition: am Weissenhof 30, Stuttgart Tuesday-Saturday 2 pm - 6 pm Sunday 12 am - 5 pm]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0055-invitation-exhibition-opening-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0054-monograph-e2a-serien-2004-09

The monograph (ed. Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart)on e 2 a will be presented at the exhibition opening at the Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof Stuttgart. 127 pages, in color, Spurbuchverlag (publisher), ISBN-10: 3887783417, ISBN-13: 978-3887783419 ]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0054-monograph-e2a-serien-2004-09 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0053-announcement-lecture-by-artist-via-lewandowsky

Introduction: Piet Eckert HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) Monday, December 7th 2009, Campus City North, tent; 6 pm ]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0053-announcement-lecture-by-artist-via-lewandowsky NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0052-marina-tiefenbrunnen-e2as-study-selected-for-further-development

invited study 2008-09 / client: City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich / e 2 a's proposal for a new water sport center at Zurich's lakefront has been selected to be elaborated further in a masterplan. The proposal focuses on: unbundling the various agendas on the lakefront, centralizing water sport activities in a new water sports center and providing more access to Zurich's lakefront for the public.]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0052-marina-tiefenbrunnen-e2as-study-selected-for-further-development NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0051-architecture-of-change-2-features-heinrich-boell-foundation

Architecture of Change 2. Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. ed. Kristin Feireiss, Lukas Feireiss. Verlag Die Gestalten, Berlin. This publication presents a broad range of environmentally mindful concepts that are not only outstanding architectonically but also devoted to regional environmental and social conditions as well as their global impact.]]> Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0051-architecture-of-change-2-features-heinrich-boell-foundation NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0050-opening-group-exhibition-architekturgalerie-berlin-2006-2009

Opening: Thursday November 5th, 2009 2006-2009 is a retropsective presenting references of selected solo-shows from the past three years. Their accompanying introductions are collected in the exhibition catalogue 2006-2009 Einführungen. Address: Architektur Galerie Berlin - werkraum Karl-Marx-Allee 96, D - 10243 Berlin Opening Hours: November 26th - July 4th, 2009 / Tuesday - Friday 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0050-opening-group-exhibition-architekturgalerie-berlin-2006-2009 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0049-completion-lakeside-house

The Lakeside House has been completed. Three stacked volumes, connected through a cascadian staircase, combine different programmatic scenarios. Living on the ground level, first level for the children, top level is for the parents. The cascade allows every combination to connect and circulate and keeps the three levels as connected and separated as wanted.]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0049-completion-lakeside-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0048-teaching-hafencity-university-hamburg

Piet and Wim Eckert are appointed visiting professors for Architecture and sustainable Design (Bachelor's and Master's Degree) at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU). The HCU focuses its research and teaching programm on the future of metropolises and offers the full range of disciplines, which relate to the understanding and shaping the urban environment.]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0048-teaching-hafencity-university-hamburg NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0047-arq-12009-cambridge-university-press

Platt, Christopher and Spier, Steven. Lighting the blue touch paper, and building well, arq. architecture research quarterly. Cambridge University Press. 1.2009, page 20-25. The culture of quality construction in Switzerland has influenced three generations of architects in initiating and sustaining their design processes. e 2 a rethinks the role of architects and priorities in the architectural practice. ]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0047-arq-12009-cambridge-university-press NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0046-ronorop-e2a-on-zurich

A questionnaire on Zurich's architecture and urban planning culture.]]> Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0046-ronorop-e2a-on-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0045-exhibition-and-publication-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof

e 2 a is invited to exhibit at the Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof, Stuttgart exhibition opening with book presentation and lecture: Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 Staatliche Akadmie für Bildende Künste, am Weissenhof 1, Stuttgart]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0045-exhibition-and-publication-architekturgalerie-am-weissenhof NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0044-open-postion-projektleiterin

Für komplexe und anspruchsvolle Bauaufgaben suchen wir ein/e engagierte/r Projektleiter/in. Anforderung: Mindestens 5 Jahre ausgewiesene CH-Erfahrung in Projektleitung und Ausführung. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0044-open-postion-projektleiterin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0043-open-position-projektarchitektin

Für anspruchsvolle Bauaufgaben suchen wir ein/e engagierte/r Projektarchitekt/-in. Anforderung: Mindestens 3 Jahre ausgewiesene CH-Erfahrung in Projektierung und Ausführungsplanung. Bewerbungen an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. + 41 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: .PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0043-open-position-projektarchitektin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0042-international-conference-urban-futures-2030

E2A is invited to attend the international conference «Urban Futures 2030» organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation in collaboration with the Bauhaus Dessau. dates: Friday July 3rd, 2009 Saturday July 4th, 2009 location: Heinrich Boell Foundation Schumannstrasse 8, Berlin]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0042-international-conference-urban-futures-2030 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0041-opening-exhibition-e2a-fractions-of-reality

Opening: Friday June 26th, 2009 The exhibition presents 11 projects, outlining each specific condition and its intepreted reality. Address: Belgrade International Architecture Week 2009 Belgrade Cultural Center, Knez Mihailova 6/I, Belgrade Opening Hours: June 26th - July 4th, 2009 / Monday - Saturday 9 a.m. - 8p.m., Sunday 12 a.m. - 8 p.m.]]> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0041-opening-exhibition-e2a-fractions-of-reality NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0040-groundbreaking-auditorium-staefa

Construction work for the the new community centre on the school campus Obstgarten has begun. Completion is foreseen for 2011. The centre will house the community library and an auditorium with 600 seats. In 2005, E2A was awarded the first prize for the extension of the school campus.]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0040-groundbreaking-auditorium-staefa NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0039-1st-prize-housing-stehli-seiden-ag-obfelden

The former silk manufactory Stehli Seiden AG will be transformed with two new housing projects. The area is unique and constitutes distinctive arrangement - the existing buildings are listed for preservation. Following the traces of the former shedhall, 24 three-storey town houses are planned. In the historic long-house 8 lofts will be integrated. A former warehouse is intended to be reused as a commercial and service centre.]]> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0039-1st-prize-housing-stehli-seiden-ag-obfelden NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0038-exhibition-e2a-belgrade-international-architecture-week-2009

E2A is invited to exhibit at the Forth Belgrade International Architecture Week. opening: Friday June 26th, 2009 location: Belgrade Cultural Center Knez Mihailova 6/I]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0038-exhibition-e2a-belgrade-international-architecture-week-2009 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0037-lecture-hochschule-luzern

E2A is invited to hold a lecture at the Hochschule Luzern / School of Engineering and Architecture. Tuesday May 19th, 2009, at 7 pm Hochschule Luzern – Technik & Architektur Dr. Josef-Mädersaal, Trakt IV, D415 Technikumstrasse 21 CH-6048 Horw]]> Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0037-lecture-hochschule-luzern NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0036-lecture-htwg-konstanz-architekturforum-konstanz-kreuzlingen

E2A is invited to hold a lecture at the Hochschule Konstanz / Faculty of Architecture. Wednesday April 13th, 2009, at 7 pm Auditorium HTWG Konstanz Brauneggerstrasse 55 D-78462 Konstanz]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0036-lecture-htwg-konstanz-architekturforum-konstanz-kreuzlingen NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0035-1st-prize-office-extension-ebp-zurich-city

The extension completes the exisiting chain of buildings in the center of the City of Zurich. It will provide additional office and meeting space. In terms of energy efficiency it will comply with highest standards. ]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0035-1st-prize-office-extension-ebp-zurich-city NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0034-groundbreaking-school-center-zurich-opfikon

Construction work for the the new school center has begun. Completion is foreseen for spring 2010. The school will house around 50 rooms used for kindergarten, nursery, workshops, day care, and administration. In 2004, E2A was awarded the first prize for the extension of the school campus. In addition to the school center, the plan also foresees to realize a day school, which will house class rooms for primary and secondary school.]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0034-groundbreaking-school-center-zurich-opfikon NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0033-on-tv-e2a

n-tv report on E2A: Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 6.30 pm. Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 3.15 pm. The coverage shows E2A's recent projects, it includes interviews with Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert talking about various aspects of their work and it takes a closer look at the Triangle House in Winterthur. ]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0033-on-tv-e2a NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0032-completion-lake-houses

The lake houses have been completed. In 2005, E2A was awarded the first price in a selective competition. The three new small and compact housing blocks are carefully set together in order to assure the predominant lake view. A subtle change of topography allows placing the houses at different heights forming a slight tribune. The white and wooden façade interpret the traditional lake summer houses of the North. ]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0032-completion-lake-houses NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0031-archithese-12009-swiss-performance-09-on-triangle-house

Hasche, Katja. Drei Ecken hat das Haus. archithese, No. 1.2009, page 52-55.]]> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0031-archithese-12009-swiss-performance-09-on-triangle-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0030-open-position-projektleiterin

Sie sind eine teamfähig/er und engagierte/r Architekt/in FH oder HTL und suchen eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe. Sie haben mindestens 3 Jahre ausgewiesene CH-Erfahrung in Projektleitung, Projektrealisierung, insbesondere im Bereich Ausführungsplanung. Weiter sind sehr gute Kenntnisse in Auto CAD Bedingung. Ihre schriftliche Bewerbung richten Sie bitte an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch; HR / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0030-open-position-projektleiterin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0029-open-position-hochbauzeichnerin

Sie sind eine kommunikative und teamorientierte Person und suchen eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabe. Sie haben mindestens 3 Jahren ausgewiesene CH-Erfahrung in den Bereichen Baueingabe und Ausführungsplanung. Weiter sind sehr gute Kenntnisse in AutoCAD Bedingung. Ihre schriftliche Bewerbung richten Sie bitte an: e 2 a eckert eckert architekten ag / Frau Patricia Ruch; HR / Hardturmstrasse 76 / CH-8005 Zürich / t. 043 444 40 10 / job(at)e2a.ch (File format: PDF, max. 2MB)]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0029-open-position-hochbauzeichnerin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0028-bauwelt-4308-on-heinrich-boll-foundation

Nils Ballhausen: Heinrich-Böll-Stifftung. in: Bauwelt 43.08, page 18-23]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0028-bauwelt-4308-on-heinrich-boll-foundation NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0027-domus-china

Densified Constellation, in: Domus China, No. 26, 10.08, page 6-11 The new Centre for Hearing and Language (school for aurally handicapped and deaf children) was featured in the November issue of domus China.]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0027-domus-china NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0026-inauguration-new-headquarters-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin

September 25th 2008, the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin was officially inaugurated. The event was attended by Federal President Horst Köhler. In 2006, E2A was awarded the first prize in the international competition. The new building was completed in June 2008 (construction time 13 months) and has been in use since. The headquarters houses modern office space for 185 employees of the foundation and a conference and convention centre (Beletage) for around 300 individuals attending numerous events. In terms of high energy efficiency the foundations’ headquarter is avant-garde. Little, but highly-innovative technology provides pleasant indoor climate. The energy consumption undercuts the legal maximum by half, it therefore takes a pioneering role in low-cost and green office and conference buildings in Germany. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is linked to the political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement, and international understanding around the globe. ]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0026-inauguration-new-headquarters-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0025-open-positions-for-interns

We have positions for interns available from September 08 onwards. We search for talented and ambitious interns. Your design skills are excellent, your design tools include a good knowledge of 3d software applications and you have a proven Autocad experience. If you are eager to work in a good team then apply with, please send your letter of motivation, CV and samples of your work to: job@e2a.ch (file format: PDF, max. 2 MB). contact: e2a eckert eckert architekten ag Patricia Ruch / HR Hardturmstrasse 76 CH-8005 Zürich]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0025-open-positions-for-interns NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0024-frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung-on-heinrich-boll-foundation

Niklas Maak: Vom grünen Schimmer der Moderne, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 9th 2008, page 37]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0024-frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung-on-heinrich-boll-foundation NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0023-best-architects-09-award

e 2 a received best architects 09 award for the Triangle House.]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0023-best-architects-09-award NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0022-swiss-solar-prize-2008

e 2 a is awarded Swiss Solar Prize 2008 for the Sports Facilities Juchhof, Zurich-Alstetten. The Swiss Solar Prize promotes renewable energy, particularly solar energy and energy efficient buildings. The prize is awarded by the Swiss Solar Agency to individuals and institutions for architecturally and energetically optimal designed buildings.]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0022-swiss-solar-prize-2008 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0021-bauwelt-2608-on-triangle-house

Nils Ballhausen: Triangel Haus, in: Bauwelt, No. 26.08, page 30-33]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0021-bauwelt-2608-on-triangle-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0020-press-conference-new-headquarters-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin

In June the Heinrich Böll Foundation will move in its new headquarters at Schumannstrasse 8 in Berlin Mitte. A presentation of the building will be held Monday, 9 June 2008, 11am to 12.30pm Accreditation: by 4 June 2008. Meeting Point: In front of the entrance Schumannstrasse 8, opposite the German Theatre respectively Ukrainian Embassy. For accreditation and information please contact Vera Lorenz by e-mail: presse@boell.de. The event will be attended by: Ralf Fücks, Chairman Heinrich Böll Foundation / Piet Eckert, architect, e2a, Zürich / Philipp Grob, energy concept, Basler & Hofmann / Via Lewandowsky, winner of the competition «Art on Site»]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0020-press-conference-new-headquarters-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0019-bauwelt-2108-on-e2a-exhibition-the-ideal-context

Ulrich Brinkmann: Der ideale Kontext - Werkschau von E2A in der Architekturgalerie Werkraum, in: Bauwelt, No. 21.08, page 4-5]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0019-bauwelt-2108-on-e2a-exhibition-the-ideal-context NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0018-opening-e2a-exhibition-the-ideal-context

Opening: Thursday May 8th, 2008 / Introduction: Prof. Steven Spier, HafenCity Universität Hamburg The cores of this exhibition, two backlit walls covering the gallery’s windows, present a cosmos of images showing models, collages, renderings and photos of realized and unrealized projects. This fund of images, set out like slides on a light table, allows a wide variety of new sequences and therefore interpretations. The exhibition title refers knowingly to the artificiality of the presented cosmos. At the same time it points out the desire of a speculative approach to deal with the reality and represents the search for an ideal interpretation of the contemporary condition. Opening Hours: May 9th - June 7th, 2008 / Thusday-Friday 14-19, Saturday 12-16, or by appointment Address: Architektur Galerie Berlin - werkraum, Karl-Marx-Allee 96, D-Berlin]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0018-opening-e2a-exhibition-the-ideal-context NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0017-school-extension-staefa

The 1st phase of the project, the extension and renovation of the northern school complex has been completed. The existing school campus is to be profoundly renovated. The two main school buildings and the inner campus landscape are part of a total renovation. The project interprets the architecture built in the 1970’s and organizes a new outer concrete skin. The existing inner recreational areas, the classrooms and the newly added group rooms generate a new and modern infrastructure. ]]> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0017-school-extension-staefa NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0016-dienstagsdebatten-architekturforum-zurich

The debate takes place on Tuesday the 15th of April 2008 on the subject of recent urban developments around the Escher-Wyss area. Guests are Mike Guyer, Ursula Müller, Michael Schneider and Piet Eckert. The Dienstagsdebatten is a series of panel discussions organized by the Architekturforum Zurich. ]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0016-dienstagsdebatten-architekturforum-zurich NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0015-exhibition-e2a-architektur-galerie-berlin-werkraum

e 2 a is invited to exhibit at the Architektur Galerie Berlin - werkraum. Title: Der ideale Kontext - The Ideal Context opening: Thursday May 8th, 2008. opening hours: May 8th - June 6th, 2008 Thursday-Friday 14-19, Saturday 12-16, or by appointment Architektur Galerie Berlin - werkraum Karl-Marx-Allee 96 D-10243 Berlin]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0015-exhibition-e2a-architektur-galerie-berlin-werkraum NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0014-inauguration-centre-for-language-and-hearing

The Building Direction of the Canton of Zurich invites to the opening of the new Centre of Language and Hearing. The opening takes place on the March 19th. The design focuses on an extremely economical approach and stacks three identical floors. Only the ground level received the additional program of a gymnasium resulting in a one storey extension reminding us of the character of a pavilion. A undulated façade of untreated aluminium glades the building.]]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0014-inauguration-centre-for-language-and-hearing NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0013-completion-triangle-house

The project can be visited Friday, March 28th. Three apartments are organized within the slender, triangular block. The form of the building renders entirely different impressions regarding size and form. Though very contextually thought out the building remains a stranger among the old villas. ]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0013-completion-triangle-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0012-2nd-prize-extension-eth-lee

With direct proximity to ETH main building of Gottfried Semper, the recent project of the ETH LEE encompasses a new series of extensions to densify the academic quarter in the center of Zurich. The delicate scale and the immanent exposure within the “crown” of Zurich’s silhouette made us design a building profiled with four volumetric setbacks. A horizontally organized connection forms an expressive piano noble connecting all the buildings nearby as well as acting as an internal podium of communication. The piano noble is linked to two dominant cores, one designed to concentrate all office communication and meeting functions, the other to form the library and study areas of the ETH Graphical Collection. The project elaborates an extremely sustainable building concept and operations with a maximum of sufficiency and effectivity.]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0012-2nd-prize-extension-eth-lee NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0011-completion-gsc-house

The GSC house has been completed. Three programmatic different volumes form an idea of three houses in one. The public, the private and the utilitarian house generates a micro-cosmos leaving the near context far behind. The GSC house is located in one of the densest populated suburban areas of Greater Zurich. The close arrangement of the houses in its neighborhood along the lake of Zurich appears as a rostrum for the precious view over the lake. ]]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0011-completion-gsc-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0010-2nd-prize-campus-brugg-windisch

Within the new given masterplan of the university campus, two buildings were designed to integrate the new spatial needs. Along the track field a highly densified faculty building organizes all classrooms and administrative programs, along the forum a three storey low building creates a new collective center integrating the main auditoriums, central library, the campus direction, shops and facilities. The design stresses a maximum of polarity between track field and the existing university buildings. The low center allows a maximal impact of the well-known existing architecture by Swiss architect Fritz Haller. The introduction of a subtle system of stairs bridges the considerable difference of topographic height and establishes a new common agenda as a stepped and framed outdoor landscape.]]> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0010-2nd-prize-campus-brugg-windisch NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0009-completion-country-house

The country house has been completed. It is a house with two components of spaces; chambers and voids. The chambers fulfill precisely identified purposes, the voids can anticipate to all the rest yet to come: the chambers are conceived for individual family members, the void to meet and be together. The house is a free standing volume on a long subtle slope, slightly rotated in plan. Its inclined roof, approx. parallel to the ground, puts the building in relation to the existing types of country houses. The façades underline the volumetric appearance of the void, acting as eyes and observing the beauty of the landscape. The entry hall, the garden access, the dinning area, and the family den form the key activities within the void. A sculptural staircase and a double height space mark the centre and receive natural light through a large skylight. Since the chambers maintain their diverse and personal atmosphere, the voids are kept homogeneously with continuous materials.]]> Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0009-completion-country-house NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0008-best-architects-08-award

e 2 a received best architects 08 award for the Terrace Housing.]]> Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0008-best-architects-08-award NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0007-topping-out-ceremony-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin

The structural work for Heinrich Böll Foundation has been completed. The official inauguration of the new headquarter will be held in September 2008.]]> Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0007-topping-out-ceremony-heinrich-boll-foundation-berlin NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0006-metropolitan-living

e 2 a has conceived an high-rise housing project in Zürich West. The 18 storey building will include 63 apartments and the rehearsal stages of the Zurich Opera House. The project is part of the newly designed masterplan to densify the existing industrial production site on its outer edges. Along the base, the project integrates the existing industrial storage building. The site and the the inclination of the south facade allows a metropolitan exposure and a panoramic view on the lake and the industrial areas. The inauguration of the project is forseen for 2011.]]> Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0006-metropolitan-living NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0005-monograph-by-quart

Quart Publishers release volume 15 of the series de aedibus on e 2 a. Foreword by Heinz Wirz and text contributions by Christoph Wieser.]]> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0005-monograph-by-quart NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0004-groundbreaking-heinrich-boll-stiftung-interview

The new headquarter of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin Mitte is under construction. Completion of works is foreseen for end of May 2008. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90 - Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement and international understanding around the globe. The new building occupies the corner of a small city park. ]]> Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0004-groundbreaking-heinrich-boll-stiftung-interview NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0003-architecture-in-switzerland-features-the-broelberg-project

Architecture in Switzerland, ed. Philip Jodidio, Taschen Verlag Köln. This new architecture series features architectural trends by country.]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0003-architecture-in-switzerland-features-the-broelberg-project NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0002-av-monographs-vivenda-formal-issue-116

Peripheral assemblages: Though suburban growth is immediately associated to the routinely repetition of single-family attached dwellings. Some architects give these recurrent environments a second chance. e 2 a ' s target was to recover the essence and the credibility of the stepped and terraced building. ]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0002-av-monographs-vivenda-formal-issue-116 NEWS http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0001-1st-prize-masterplan-escher-wyss

Competition 1st prize / e 2 a designs the new masterplan for the Escher Wyss industrial area. The plan allows a densification of three new high-rise buildings, reformulating the outer edges. The proposal for a new masterplan has been selected to be elaborated further. The plan includes a gross surface potential of approximately 100'000 m2.]]> Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.e2a.ch/?news/0001-1st-prize-masterplan-escher-wyss NEWS