Monday, January 31, 2011

VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron



Here are some photographs of the VitraHaus by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which has opened at the VitraCampus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Designed to display the furniture brand’s Home Collection, the five-storey building consists of stacked volumes with pitched roofs covered in charcoal stucco. Each gabled end is glazed and cantilevers outwards up to five metres, creating the impression of a pile of houses.




Internally, spiral staircases connect the intersecting white-painted interiors. The VitraHaus project joins existing buildings on the Vitra campus by Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.

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