RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners 2007 : Herzog and de Meuron Architects

Key Herzog de Meuron buildings (chronological):

Allianz Arena - Football stadium, Munich, Germany
2003-04
Barcelona Forum, Barcelona, Spain
2000-04
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, England, UK
1998-2000
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London, England, UK
1997-2000
Dominus Winery, Yountville, California, USA
1996-98


Barcelona Forum photo © adrian welch

Featured Herzog de Meuron building:

Forum Building / Edifici Fòrum
Diagonal Mar - Barcelona Forum
2000-04
Herzog & de Meuron Architects


Barcelona Forum image © adrian welch

Description of this Herzog de Meuron building
"These strips are striated with mirrors valiantly trying to reduce the stodginess of the slice of floating blue cheesecake"


Barcelona Forum image © adrian welch

Herzog de Meuron - Tate Modern London

Herzog and de Meuron - Practice:

Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog formed thier practice in 1978 but only
became 'Herzog & de Meuron' in 1997.
Harry Gugger joined as Partner in 1991; Christine Binswanger in 1994, Robert Hösl & Ascan Mergenthaler in 2004.

Herzog de Meuron - Stirling Prize 2003 : Laban Centre London

Herzog and de Meuron - Awards:

Pritzker Architecture Prize 2001
Deutscher Kritikerpreis 1993
Max Beckmann Award 1996
Rolf Schock Prize for the Visual Arts 1999
Prix Equerre d'Argent 2001

Herzog & de Meuron Architects : de Young Museum

Key Buildings (chronological):

Blue House, Oberwil, Switzerland 1980
Stone House, Tavole, Italy 1988
Apartment Building along a Party Wall, Basel, Switzerland 1988
Goetz Collection, Gallery for Private Collection of Modern Art, Munich, Germany 1992
Housing, St Alban-Tal, Basel, Switzerland 1982
Ricola Factory Addition, Laufen, Switzerland 1989-91
Kempinski Residence, Dresden, Germany 1989
Rudin House, Leymen, France 1997-98
Institute for Hospital Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland 1997-98
Ricola Marketing Building, Laufen, Switzerland 1998
Eberswalde Technical School Library, Eberswalde, Germany 1997-99
Köppersmöhle Museum: Grothe Collection, Duisburg, Germany 1997-99
Apartment buildings, Rue des Suisses, Paris, France 1998-2000
Roche Pharma Research Institute, Basel, Switzerland 1999-2000
Commercial / Apartments Building, Solothurn, Switzerland 1998-2000
Commercial / Apartments Building, Munich, Germany 1998-2000
Museum Küppersmühle - Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany 2000
Ricola AG Administration building, Laufen, Basel, Switzerland 2000
Kunsthalle in den Fünf Höfen, Munich, Germany 2000-01
St Jakob Stadium, Basel, Switzerland 2000-01
Schaulager, Münchenstein, Basel, Switzerland 2003
Laban Dance Centre, London, UK 2003
Prada store, Aoyama Tokyo, Japan 2003
Andreas Gursky Home / Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany 2004
Cottbus Technical University Library, Germany 2005
Walker Art Center Extension, Minneapolis, USA 2005
Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany 2005
de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA 2005
Portsmouth Stadium development, England 2007-
Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany 2007-
40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan, New York, USA 2007
National Stadium : The Water Cube, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, China 2003-07
Roche: New Tower + New research and development facility, Switzerland 2006-
Schatzalp Hotel Extension, Switzerland 2007-
Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA 2007-

Herzog de Meuron - Building News:
Caixa Forum, Madrid
2008
Opened Feb 2008 by king & queen of Spain
Incl. former Mediodía power station

Portsmouth Stadium development, Hampshire, England
2007-
Herzog & de Meuron : Portsmouth Stadium

Elbe Philharmonic Concert Hall, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany
2007-
New music hall on top of 1960s warehouse building

40 Bond St, Noho, Manhattan, USA
2007
Ian Schrager condominium – serviced apartments + townhouses
11 storeys
23 apartments + 5 New York townhouses
Façade includes green glass tubes

The Water Cube, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, China
2007
Engineer: Tristram Carfrae of Arup

de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
2005

New Tower + New research and development facility
For: Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche
Date: 2006-
Location: headquarters complex, on River Rhine - Schatzaep Davos, Grisons
Cost: 800 million Swiss francs for both projects

Related Development:
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis
Cost: $1.5 billion
Sanaa Architects + Diener & Diener Architects + Frank Gehry Architects

Herzog de Meuron - Allianz Arena Munich

New York Architecture
Paris Architecture



Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron - Education Positions:

1975 architecture diploma - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1977 ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Guest Professorships / Teaching:
1989- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA : Jacques Herzog 1989- Pierre de Meuron 1994-
1983 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
1991 Tulane University, New Orleans, USA

1999- ETH Studio Basel, Institute for the Contemporary City


Herzog de Meuron - Partners:
Harry Gugger + Christine Binswange


Herzog and de Meuron - Exhibitions:

Architektur Denkform, Architekturmuseum Basel 1988
Herzog & de Meuron: une exposition, curated & designed by Rémy Zaugg,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1995
The Un-Private House, Museum of Modern Art 1999
Works in Progress, Fondazione Prada, Milan 2001
Herzog & de Meuron: Archéologie de l'imaginaire, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 2002
Herzog & de Meuron, Schaulager® Basel 2004


Herzog de Meuron Architects - French building in more detail:

Rue des Suisses - Maison / Suisses Street - Apartment Building
19 rue des Suisses, Paris XIV
2000
Herzog & De Meuron, Architects

More photos of the Herzog & de Meuron building in Barcelona:


Barcelona Forum images © adrian welch

New York Architects

St Jakob-Park - Basel United Stadion, Basel, Switzerland
1998-2001
FC Basel Stadium
Switzerland's first multipurpose stadium

Barcelona Architecture

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Herzog & de Meuron Architects : Küppersmühle Museum Duisburg

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New Link Quay project, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron : Pritzker Prize Winners 2001

London Buildings - Tate Modern London + Laban Centre London

Herzog & de Meuron branch offices: Barcelona, Beijing, London, Munich, San Francisco

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