All Christ & Gantenbein articles
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NewsChipperfield in last five fighting for Munich concert hall
Zaha, Gehry and Herzog de Meuron lose out
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Building StudyWohnWerk, Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein
A scheme that combines live and work space for a community of adults with learning difficulties invests archetypal building types with a high level of specificity
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Building StudyVoltaMitte housing in Basel, by Christ & Gantenbein
Basel’s VoltaMitte housing scheme demonstrates the young Swiss practice’s interest in employing highly particular floor plans
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NewsBD celebrates its 40th birthday
The great and the good of British architecture celebrated BD’s 40th birthday at a party at the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden on Monday night.
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Building StudyChrist & Gantenbein’s Swiss Church
Young Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein’s reworking of the interior of the Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden puts mirrored glazing and a highly complex plan to dramatic use
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NewsChrist & Gantenbein Swiss Church refurbishment goes the white way
Construction work has begun on Swiss practice Christ & Gantenbein’s £2 million refurbishment of the grade II listed Swiss Church in London’s Covent Garden
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NewsOslo scraps Koolhaas library design
Rem Koolhaas’s design for a new central library in Oslo, Norway, has been scrapped, after the city decided to re-locate the library to a site near the Snøhetta designed opera house in Bjørvika.
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Archive TitlesFlawed genius
Basel practice Christ & Gantenbein shares Herzog & de Meuron’s interest in playing with surfaces. In this extension to a 1920s villa, the architects were fanatical about details but positively encouraged some imperfections.