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19 March 2024, PRIX SIA Talks

The "Prix SIA Talks" put the nine nominated projects in the spotlight. In the first talk with Nathalie Mongé, landscape architect, Guillaume Habert, expert in sustainable building, and Werner Sobek, engineer and architect, the focus is on three of the nine nominees: the Hirtenweg housing estate in Riehen, the extension of the Riaz primary school and the redesign of the English Gardens in Bern. Topics of discussion include sustainable materials, the emergence of a new aesthetic and a review of building culture in Switzerland.

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07 March 2024, Tapetenmuseum construction site

The construction of the Tapetenmuseum in Kassel is progressing!
After the topping-out ceremony in December 2023, the roof structure is currently being attached.

February 2024, Hirtenweg shortlisted for the PRIX SIA

With the Hirtenweg housing estate, the Studio Gugger team, together with Erne Holzbau and Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur, has created dense, affordable living space with a socially acceptable programme. The planners approached the project with great respect for the existing qualities. Overall, the coherence of the entire scenario is impressive. The housing estate is a place of security and contemplation.

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17 January 2024, Big volumes in wood

<<Whether high-rise buildings, large residential complexes or office blocks - the future is open to building with wood. We provide an insight into current projects and the challenges involved in realising them.>>

17 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:00
Swissbau Focus, Hall 1.0 South, Messe Basel, Switzerland

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November 2023, “Gutes Bauen” award for Hirtenweg and Silo!

Both Hirtenweg and Silo received the "Gutes Bauen" award by canton Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft.

You can find the juries report here

3 November 2023, Hirtenweg is awarded by Heimatshutz Basel

We are proud of our social housing project Hirtenweg that received the Bautenpraemierung by the institution of Heimatshutz Basel.

Congratulations to all the figures involved on this project!

2 November 2023, new photos for the Silo

We are happy to show the new photos taken by the talented photographer Kateryna Debkaliuk.

26 October 2023, The Silo is awarded with the AMO Prix!

Silo Erlenmatt wins the award for the most creative typology.

≪Beyond the pure act of creation, constructive imagination is the quest for original solutions and the desire to change the world or adapt to it. The 2022-2023 nominated projects have each served these aims, offering a springboard for biodiversity, a balanced watering hole, a sensory village, a hut-school, rue slide towards a future of ecological transition. The winner - the Erlematte silo by Stitfung Habitat and Harry Gugger Studio - is a creative metamorphosis, a renovation that prevents the soil artificialisation process. Roundness in horizontality and the original military verticality like a welcome, pivoting portholes like so many curious eyes open on the city, a silo from 1912, which yesterday contained bulk materials, whose volumes, reinforced concrete walls and preserved hoppers now shelter a flow of life and ideas.≫

13 October 2023, Walking thinktank and podium in Erlenmatt Basel

October 2023, The Silo goes on the big screen!

"The Silo" is a documentary short film directed by the young and talented Aureliano Ramella and it narrates the spirit of our project through images.
We are very proud that it will be soon presented at the
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam.