• Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system

    Herzog & de Meuron designs a research facility in Basel using a closed-cavity facade system

    Herzog & de Meuron (HdM) has designed a new research facility for Roche, a large Swiss pharmaceutical company based in Basel. The four new structures, collectively known as pRED, consist of two low-rise buildings and two high-rises. The facility, interconnected via a system of skybridges, consolidates Roche’s laboratories into a single location. HdM’s latest addition

  • Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels

    Bureau des Mésarchitectures—the architectural practice of French-Portuguese artist Didier Fiúza Faustino—has designed a new apartment complex in Leiria, Portugal. Adding seven additional apartments along Leira’s Rua dos Mártires, near the center of the small city, the complex consists of a renovated single family home connected to a newly constructed, half-circular extension clad in precast concrete

    Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels