Sustainable forests in the mountainous region surrounding Lake Lucerne cater for Switzerland’s thriving wood processing industry. Tucked in the southwestern corner, the Swiss Commune of Alpnach is ...

Leopold Banchini Architects has built Casa CCFF, a house it describes as a "domestic factory", beside a train station in Lancy, Switzerland.

Switzerland is famous for its stunning landscapes, but did you know that hidden under its surface are the amazing underground ...

As architectural programs, they offer unique opportunities to explore how physical environments can foster learning, ... "An Experimental School in Switzerland and a Wood Art Center in Poland: ...

She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of ...

It is made up of 20,000 linear metres of wood, 500 square-metres of wooden panelling and 20,000 screws, and weighs in at 4.5 tonnes. Related story California architecture students design shelters ...

Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, Future, by Carla Ferrer, Thomas Hildebrand, and Celina Martinez-Cañavate. Lars Müller, 304 pages, $45. ... Beginning with a host of Swiss examples from the 1980s ...

That’s unexpected, and it's one of the things that architecture can do—be delightful and make us look at the world, sometimes literally, from a different perspective." Wood by William Hall ...

Switzerland is set to become home to the world’s tallest timber residential building. The project, named Rocket&Tigerli, will consist of four buildings including one that boasts a 100-meter-tall ...

You can get a grasp of Zumthor’s working method from the 1996 project that first gained him wide notice, a thermal bath house on the grounds of a spa hotel in the Swiss commune of Vals.

Switzerland may be the best place in the world to be a housecat. They have freedom, autonomy—and their own cat-specific architecture. Be it on the side of a townhouse or apartment complex ...