Paris-based Atelier Zündel & Cristea Architects (A/ZC) has shared with us their entry for a competition that seeks to densen the urban fabric of Vevey, a Swiss town on the north shore of Lake Geneva. The project is a collaboration with Swiss firm Architram.

Paris-based Explorations Architecture, together with engineering firms Flint & Neill and Arup Lighting have won the international competition to design the Negrellisteg crossing, a pedestrian bridge, over the Hauptbahnhof railways in downtown Zurich, Switzerland. The competition was held by the City of Zurich…

A group of four recent graduates from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland has won the First Place in the AIAS competition for the awards pavillion of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. Team members were Manuel Gross, Patrik Staub, Yannick Vorberg, and…

Bernard Tschumi Architects has won an international invited competition to design a new center for the performing arts at Institut Le Rosey, the renowned boarding school in Switzerland.  The new building will be named Carnal Hall after the school’s founder, Paul Carnal.

Olympic Games are always a terrific occasion to flex the architectural muscles beyond your every-day-joe-schmo assignment. For the upcoming 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Swiss studio RAFAA flexed quite a bit and propose the competition entry “Solar City Tower” that—packed with solar panels and sustainable features—wants…

In the course of an invited architectural competition for a highway service area, a proposal of the young architectural office Iseppi-Kurath from Grisons, Switzerland was selected as the winning project. The design of the two architects achieved to translate the theme of the “window towards the region” with…

A Japanese team of star architects – Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop – is the winner of the architectural competition launched by the Zurich Airport for “The Circle”. The project involves an upscale complex for innovative services within walking distance of…

In December 2009, the good folks at our sister site Archinect launched the open call for ideas ‘Switzerland, We Have A Problem’ to find adequate architectural solutions to Switzerland’s most recent political ban of an internationally very common building type—the minaret. Now,…

The winners for the international architecture competition Extension Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland have been announced. The jury decided to award the project of Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein the 1st prize. The 2nd prize goes to fellow Swiss firm Diener & Diener.…

Earlier this year, our sister site Archinect brought you the Michael Jackson Memorial Competition (previously on Bustler). Now the focus is towards current events and the strange intersection of religious…