German Architecture
February 22, 2010 | admin | Comments 0
The Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is already a mecca for contemporary architecture, featuring a design museum by Frank Gehry and a conference center by Tadao Ando by SANAA have just finished what might be the greatest of them of them all: a new building, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, to showcase the company’s home-furniture collection.
Herzog & de Meuron who made a splash in 2008 with their “Bird’s Nest” stadium for the Beijing Olympics take the form of generic, A-frame houses, which are then stacked on top of each other. There are 12 houses in all, and the stacking of them
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