Roger Boltshauser - School renovation, Gönhard 2012. Amazing concrete details. Photos (C) Beat Bühler.
SUBTILITAS
fineness of texture, logic, detail; slenderness, exactness, acuteness; sharpness : precision
EM2N - Restoration of the viaduct arches, Zurich 2010. A great urban renewal project that breathes new life to a previously derelict infrastructural barrier. Photos (C) Roger Frei.
A gradation of weathering along the shingled facade of Peter Zumthor’s Saint Benedict Chapel in Sumvitig,1988. Via, photo (C) Hélène Binet.
Peter Zumthor - Architect’s own home, Haldenstein, 2005. Amazing how a door that large on that type of hinge is so tight to the ceiling and floor. Previously, 2 via, 2, photos (C) Pietro Savorelli.
Diener & Diener - Schönwil housing, Meggen 2013. Via, photos (C) Yohan Zerdoun. From the exterior, the buildings appear to be concrete; however balcony cut-outs reveal wide timber planks and window mullions and details finished to match. Interior flooring switches to a pale marble, and has veining that mimics the wood grain in pattern and scale, appearing to be an un-aged version of the exterior material.
Jessen Vollenweider - Renovation and addition of the St. Gallen administration offices, 2012. Amazing window details; historic integration at its best. Via (pdf!), photos (C) Walter Mair.
Durrer Linggi Architekten - Reconstruction of the Stockalperturm Hotel, a 17th century building badly damaged during a 2000 landslide, Gondo 2006. Via, 2, photos (C) Tom Bisig.
