Go to the little town of Weil am Rhein in the tri-border region where Germany, France and Switzerland meet. Swiss furniture manifacturer Vitra‘s campus shows off the who’s who of architecture – Switzerland’s own Herzog & De Meuron, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, to name a few…
Vitra Schaudepot by Herzog & De Meuron 
sharp lines 
inside Schaudepot 
Zaha Hadid’s fire station 
kitchen inside the fire station 
Vitra slide 
Vitra slide sausage 
Thomas Hütte’s Hütte (=hut) 
from inside the wooden hut – looking onto VitraHaus 
Herzog & De Meuron’s VitraHaus – twelve protohouses stacked into each other 
Vitra showroom inside VitraHaus 
SANAA’s production hall 
simple elegance 
Dome by Richard Buckminster Fuller 
Jean Prouvé – gas station 
Tadao Ando – conference building 
simple glass and grey 
inside Tadao Ando’s conference building 
production hall by Frank Gehry 
outside Frank Gehry’s production hall 
Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry 
this is not a museum
January 5th, 2020
Bei Vitra hat sich doch einiges verändert, seit wir vor geschätzt zehn Jahren das letzte Mal dort waren.