a+u 2025:11 Feature: Christ & Gantenbein – 10 Years
Content
a+u’s November issue looks at the continuity, disruption, and evolution in the works of Christ & Gantenbein from their first monograph published in 2015. Constraints in site and program are welcome opportunities to create spatial surprises. Through experimentations in the museum typology, such as the extension of the Swiss National Museum, the architects’ practice a form of urban repair, creating architectural spaces that are part of the civicness of a city, grounded in context, accessible to the public, and provide much needed “third spaces.” As evidenced by Vaugirard Social Housing, their typological approach goes beyond recreating basic functions but provides sensitive solutions to contemporary spatial issues in domestic architecture. One defining feature of their work over the years continues to be in consistent dialogue, with contemporary collaborators, historical figures, architectural concepts and with time itself. (a+u)
Swiss National Museum Extension
Kunstmuseum Basel Extension
MACBA Extension
Conversation:
Standing the Test of Time
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
New Aare Bridge
Lindt Home of Chocolate
Roche Flexible Office Building
UK House Refurbishment
List Customer Center
Willy-Brandt-Strasse Mixed-Use Building
Essay:
A Typological Evolution
Jeanette Kuo
Mixed-use Tower Pratteln
Vaugirard Social Housing
Cooperative Housing
Westhof Housing
Terraced House
Essay:
Vaugirard Social Housing
Éric Lapierre
Musik-Akademie
Pirosmani Sky
Reformation Anniversary Pavilion
Paris Internationale Art Fair
Joya Exhibition Design
10 Models
Mahalla – Urban Rural Living
Athens Series