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.