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Architecture and Urbanism
August 2006 Special Issue


  

Herzog & de Meuron

2002–2006


All texts in both English and Japanese
Total pages: 324
Price (outside Japan): 5,800 yen +2,000 yen (Airmail)

ISBN: 4-900211-62-1 C3052
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As a product of numerous exchanges with the office (H&dM), this issue combines exquisite photographs selected by the architects themselves, together with detailed presentations of the conceptual development of each project. With the increasing number of projects being undertaken in shorter periods of time, this issue is made up of a collection of recent works since 2002.

Contents

Completed Works

Herzog & de Meuron. No. 250. An Exhibition

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Expansion
Laban Creekside Dance Centre PageView
REHAB Basel, Centre for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries
IKMZ BTU Cottbus, Information, Communications and Media Center PageView
Two Glass Wings on the Girtannersberg, Extension of Head Office for Helvetia Patria
Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation
Studios for Two Artists  
Elsässertor II, Commercial Building PageView
de Young Museum PageView
Walker Art Center, Expansion  
Prada Aoyama Epicenter PageView
Forum 2004, Building and Plaza  
Allianz Arena PageView
Jinhua Pavilion  
Tristan and Isolde, Stage Set  
Projects
Astor Place Hotel  
Prada Le Cure / Prada New York / Prada Levanella  
Chais d’Hosanna PageView
CaixaForum-Madrid  
National Stadium, Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games
Schatzalp  
Elbphilharmonie PageView
Jindong New District  
Ciudad del Flamenco  
Tree Village Campus  
House on a Cliff  
TPT, Three Partnership Tower PageView
MK2, City of Image and Sound  
Beijing Film Academy Qingdao  
Essay
“Herzog & de Meuron: A very temporal spatial experience” Erwin Viray  

Firm Profile, 2002–2006

Herzog & de Meuron

Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog established their office in 1978. Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger joined the office as Partners in 1991 and 1994 respectively, followed by Robert Hösl and Ascan Mergenthaler in 2004, and Stefan Marbach in 2006. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were born in Basel, Switzerland in 1950. They studied architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland 1970–1975. Harry Gugger was born in Grezenbach, Switzerland in 1956. He apprentised as an instrument mechanic 1973–1977, and studied architecture at ETH Zurich and Columbia University New York, N.Y., USA 1984–1989. Christine Binswanger was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland in 1964. She studied in architecture at the ETH Zurich 1984–1990. Robert Hösl was born in Bonndorf, Germany in 1965. He studied architecture at TU Berlin, Germany 1984–1993. Ascan Mergenthaler was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1969. He studied architecture at Universität Stuttgart and The Bartlett, UCL, London, UK 1990–1997. Stefan Marbach was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1970. He studied architecture at HTL Muttenz 1993–1997 and held a scholarship at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan Stockholm in 1994.