Hotel City Garden / EM2N
The Parkhotel in Zug planned to erect a temporary ancillary hotel building on a public site that in 12 to 15 years time will be used as the services area for a road building project. Despite the...
View ArticleTheater 11 / EM2N
In the near future we will increasingly be confronted with the problem of building fabric from the 1960s and 1970s that no longer satisfies present-day functional and technical standards. One project...
View ArticleKeystone Office Building / EM2N
This office building stands at a kind of gateway situation at a prominent situation in Karlín,a district of Prague that is undergoing rapid change, at the corner of Pobřežni Street and Šaldova Street....
View ArticleHousing Neufrankengasse / EM2N
The project is developed out of its exciting location between two extremes: the inner city Kreis 5 (District 5) and a large area of railway tracks. This expansiveness of this “lake of a different...
View ArticleHousing Im Forster / EM2N
The park complex ‘Im Forster’ is being developed according to a master plan. The five very different building lots are laid out in such a way as to ensure the optimum preservation of the parkland...
View ArticleAffoltern Housing Development / EM2N
This development uses different heights to respond to the surrounding buildings in Zurich-Affoltern. Towards the road the buildings are connected at ground floor level to form an urban plinth and in...
View ArticleExtension Railway Service Facility / EM2N
The new maintenance facility being built at Zurich-Herdern will allow SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) to handle future trains of up to 400 metres in length with ease. SBB will be able to clean and repair...
View ArticleToni-Areal / EM2N
The conversion of the large former Toni milk processing building into a location for education, culture and housing creates a link between two very topical developments. On the one hand it establishes...
View ArticleConversion Hammergut / EM2N
The old Hammer farm estate is a powerful ensemble that has developed over a period of 150 years. Through internal and external factors such as changes in production processes, fires etc. this ensemble...
View ArticleRefurbishment Viaduct Arches / EM2N
In this project we examine two essential questions: How can an infrastructure element that is a protected monument be programmed and made part of the urban system? In an era with an increasing amount...
View ArticleEM2N to Build Basel's New Museum of Natural History and State Archives
EM2N has won first prize in an international competition to design the new Museum of Natural History Basel and the State Archives Basel-City. Selected over 22 other proposals, the winning scheme...
View ArticleCinémathèque Suisse / EM2N
Paradoxically, the charm of the existing Cinémathèque lay in its simple and utilitarian appear- ance. The home of the national collective lm memory presented itself as an unpretentious accumulation of...
View ArticleLucerne School of Art and Design / EM2N
On the industrial site of the former monofilament manufacturer Viscosuisse and today’s Monosuisse AG in Emmenbrücke, a new urban district, to be known as the Viscosistadt, will be developed in the...
View ArticleHousing Greencity, Building Plot A1 / EM2N
The elongated plot A forms the start to the new urban district ‘Greencity’ and is strongly influenced by the neighbouring street and railway. We used this essentially ʻimpossible situationʼ as the...
View ArticleWIN4 Sports Centre / EM2N
The WIN4 Sports Centre in Winterthur is located beside the existing Deutweg ice arena. Catering for both mass and top-level sport, this new project is intended to have an impact far beyond the city of...
View ArticleUBS Headquarters Refurbishment / EM2N
Over generations the historical headquarters of the UBS at 45 Bahnhofstrasse gradually distanced itself more and more from its original structure and appearance, becoming a patchwork made up of...
View ArticleSwiss Cinemathque / EM2N
Paradoxically, the charm of the existing Cinémathèque lay in its simple and utilitarian appearance. The home of the national collective film memory presented itself as an unpretentious accumulation of...
View ArticleNew Housing on Briesestraße / EM2N
Made up of several constituent parts, this building mediates at the joint between the heterogeneous block perimeter development with its typical firewalls and the large, meandering late modern...
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