Herzog & De Meuron Projects 8 Created 12-Dec-07 By Naomi Schiphorst, Amsterdam, Netherlands Forum Building Barcelona, Spain auditorium, culture, exposition space, square Laban Dance Centre Allianz Arena 3 Schaulager Basel, Switzerland archive, atelier, exposition space REHAB Basel 6 Pfaffenholz sport centre 7 Saint-Louis, France sport 4 Munich, Germany football stadium Basel, Switzerland clinic, health care London, United Kingdom education, culture 2 Helvetia Headquarters 8 Sankt Gallen, Switzerland office 5 Central Signal Box 9 Basel, Switzerland http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 1
Forum Building Avinguda Diagonal 1 08019 Barcelona Spain http://wwwbarcelona2004org/ The Forum Building is a triangular measuring 180 meters on each side and 25 meters in height, located within the triangle formed by the surrounding streets It is considered by some to be an icon of the "New Barcelona " However, local opinion on its aesthetic and functional merits is deeply divided It was the symbol of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures and the serious flaws that arose during its construction were widely covered in both the Spanish national and foreign press It has lain empty since the Forum and is beginning to show marked deterioration The building is structured around an auditorium with a capacity to hold 3,200 people The seating is below the Forum Plaza level The upper part is suspended from the triangular superstructure measuring 180 meters per side that covers the plaza, and rests on 17 pillars From it, the exhibit hall and the roof of the auditorium are suspended The exhibition hall covers nearly 5,000 m2 Project is public! 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004 Naomi photo: Francisco Nogueira Metro: L4 - Stop "Maresme/Fórum" Bus: Lines 7-36 - 41-43 141 NitBus: N6 Tramway: Line 1, Stop Trambesós: Fórum http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 2
Laban Dance Centre Creekside SE 8 3DZ London United Kingdom http://wwwlabanorg The building is designed by award-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron Purpose-built for dance training, it is the largest and best equipped contemporary dance school in Europe The fully accessible building supports the needs of dance with specialist facilities By day the building's semi-translucent cladding allows traces of dance and movement to be visible through the walls By night, the building becomes a coloured beacon with light and movemnt spilling out illuminating the surrounding area Only certain sections (cafe, pilates studio and health suite) of the building are open to the public on a daily basis However, they offering weekly guided tours, for more information or to book a tour see the guided tours section or contact the External Relations team tours@labanorg Project is not public! Floor area/size 2-2003 7800 m² Structural engineer Landscape designer Artist Theatre consultant Contractor Project manager Whitby Bird & Partners Vogt Landschaftarchitekten Michael Craig-Martin Carr & Angier Ballast Construction ARUP The Laban Centre Marieke_Mannens The cafe and other public areas of the building are open 900pm - 500pm Monday to Friday There are weekly tours of the whole building for more information see website Laban Please do not come to the building expecting to be able to see the whole building as the students are the main priority and Laban needs to keep the disruption to a minimum, thanks for you understanding The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) offers a frequent service to Cutty Sark station which is a few minutes walk from Laban The DLR joins to the London Underground at Monument / Bank (Central, Circle and District Lines), Shadwell (East London Line), Canary Wharf (Jubilee Line) and Stratford (Central Line) At Cutty Sark turn right out of the station and right again on to Creek Road Take the second left after the bridge, Creekside and Laban is a on your left (10 min walk) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 3
photo: Allianz Arena photo: Allianz Arena Allianz Arena Werner-Heisenberg-Allee 25 80939 Munich Germany http://wwwallianz-arenade Built in a record time of 30 months, the Allianz Arena is one of the most modern and architecturally unique football stadiums in Europe It has not only captivated football fans, but many others with its breathtaking architecture and spectacular illuminated facade Swiss architects designed the building purely as football stadium The façade and roof is a composition of transparent and translucent ETFE laminate panels on a steel supporting structure Every panel has a transparent inner Those forming the facade have a translucent white outer, but the roof panels are completely transparent, allowing sunshine and light to fall onto the pitch The stadium is lighted in the colours of the two Munich clubs (FC Bayern München red colour and TSV 1860 blue) who have their home-base in this arena; white for national games Capacity of the Arena is 69000, unique 3-tier Arena in Germany with a great closeness to the pitch through a high inclination of the tiers photo: Allianz Arena Project is public! Floor area/size 5-2005 38000 m² Landscape designer Associate architect Vogt Landschaftarchitekten Allianz Arena / FC Bayern München / TSV 1860 München MI_MOA World of Brands (ArenaTours): Mon Sat 1000 1900, Sun + Public holidays 1000 1700 Arena a la carte restaurant: 1000 2200 daily Ticket office: Mon - Fri 1000 1900 Matchdays: The stadium opens 35 hours before Bayern home games, 25 hours before TSV 1860 home games The World of Brands is closed, and guided tours do not operate, on matchdays and days featuring an event The stadium organizes English guided tours at 1 pm daily! see: http://wwwallianz-arenade/ All visitors reach the stadium itself via the Esplanade, a landscaped roof over the car parks Spectator routes emerge directly from the car parks, the bus parking and via a short transition route from the Fröttmaning underground station From Munich's main station or Munich East catch the S-Bahn to Marienplatz and change to subway line U6 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 4
Schaulager Ruchfeldstrasse 19 CH-4142 Basel Switzerland http://wwwschaulagerorg/ The Schaulager ('viewing warehouse') is neither museum nor traditional warehouse It keeps the Emanuel Hoffmann collection in optimal condition and is primarily accessible for specialists: conservators, curators, researchers etc The heavy outer wall is built up in layers and its outer surface scratched, exposing the pebbles excavated on site This material is not only a visual expression of weight and storage but also, as a result of its great inertia, an essential factor in the interior climate control On one side the box is somewhat indented, creating a forecourt, so that the entrance side is visible from great distance It appears to be guarded by a small building with a gabled roof The courtyard-like space radiates urbanism and publicness Schaulager is thus not simply an anonymous box on the urban periphery, but rather a place that is active and self-confident, expanding the public dimension of the city of Basel to the south, towards the new district of Dreispitz/Münchenstein Project is not public! Floor area/size 5-2003 16500 m² Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation Laurenz Foundation MI_MOA The building is ONLY OPEN for the public during exhibitions! Check the Schaulager website for info Tue, Wed, Fri noon 6 pm Thu noon 7 pm Sat, Sun 10 am 5 pm By tram: Take tram No 11, bound for Aesch, at the Swiss Railway Station SBB to "Schaulager" stop (approx 10 min) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 5
photo: Marieke Mannens photo: Marieke Mannens REHAB Basel Im Burgfelderhof 40 4056 Basel Switzerland http://wwwrehabch You expect clinics to look, well, clinical, modernist, austerely immaculate boxes, hygienically white inside and out REHAB Basel is a privately run rehabilitation clinic for patients with spinal-cord or brain injuries, they can stay here up to 18 months It appears residential and natural, though not with a funky, down-home earthiness, but crispy modern Here, oak, pine, larch, and ironwoods enclose and screen exterior walls, and a rectilinear plan brings daylight and landscape into its precincts through courtyards, grassy roofs, glazed walls, upper-level decks, and skylights The double and single rooms have daylight from above and an outside balcony The indoor swimming pool offers views into the sky from a pyramid-like dome above The floors are very wide, open giving wheelchair-bound patients a sense of autonomy Almost a place where anyone would like to live photo: Marieke Mannens Project is not public! Floor area/size 3-2002 24000 m² Main designer, Landscape architect Acoustics consultant August Künzel Martin Lienhard Rehab Basel AG Marieke_Mannens http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 6
photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Pfaffenholz sport centre Rue Saint Exupery 5 68300 Saint-Louis France The central sports hall in the Pfaffenholz centre by Herzog and de Meuron, lies partly underground The building is not more than apparent but deceptively simple composition of spatial volumes Great photo: Marloes Faber Project is public! 1993 Bürgerspital Basel Marloes_Faber For 5 Francs you will get a nice guide tour (not allowed to go in there by yourself) We made a very long walk It must be easier to go there by bike, tram etc etc http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 7
photo: Stefan Tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila Helvetia Headquarters Dufourstrasse 40 9000 Sankt Gallen Switzerland Simple but yet complex, one of the best works by this Swiss practice can be found in St Gallen The recipe is simple: take a simple form of building and give it a nice skin Using a series of repetitive modules, the architects create a façade that decomposes the site, the context, the surroundings The different angle of each module creates this effect, which is emphasized by the beautiful "savage" garden that neighbours the buildings Project is public! 2004 Helvetia Patria stefan_tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila you can visit the garden any time, and the entry halls, the rest of the building is forbidden to public access http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 8
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Central Signal Box Münchensteinerstrasse Basel Switzerland This is a railway utility building in Basel, near the Guterbahnhof Wolf called Signal Box and has an exterior cladding of copper strips that are twisted at certain places to admit daylight Herzog and De Meuron won the Pritzker prize in 2001, the jury explained: "The beginnings of most architects practices consists by necessity of small projects with budgets to match It is these early buildings with great constraints that test an architect s talent for original solutions to often ordinary and utilitarian commissions In the case of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the railroad signal box was such a project They transformed a nondescript structure in a railroad yard into a dramatic and artistic work of industrial architecture, captivating both by day and night" Project is not public! 1999 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB, Anlagen Management boeboe photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/naomi/guides/herzog%20%2526%20de%20meuron/ 9