The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany) has inaugurated Doshi Retreat, a space thought up by the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, winner of the 2018 Pritzker Prize, who died in 2023. The project was carried out in collaboration with his grandda
The Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane – founder of the architecture firm ATTA – was commissioned to build this cabin, raised on a stone base with a timber structure enclosed with thatch, a material
Located inside the iconic Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome in the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, the Camper Pop-up Shop pioneers a new form of retail shopping by combining the best attributes from in-store and online shopping through a mix of virtual
Hidden under a sawtooth factory building, the Vitra Design Museum collection, ranked among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide, has never been on permanent display to the public. The Schaudepot has the appearance of an industria
The commission to build this production building on the Vitra Campus is a new strategic step of the Swiss furniture design and manufacturing firm, which is entrusting the design of its buildings to prominent international architects and turning its W
Located very close to Basel, the campus of the furniture manufacturer Vitra was begun in 1981, the year in which a major fire destroyed most of the industrial buildings the company had raised on those grounds since 1955. Nicholas Grimshaw designed th
Hubertus Adam Durante muchos años, las muestras florales estuvieron marcadas con el sello inexorable de lo pequeño burgués. II faut cultiver notre jardin, se decía en francés: el pueblo, que poco antes se había lanzado a dominar toda la Tierra, de re
Well-known for its designer furniture factory in the German part of the region, Weil am Rhein is part of the imprecise belt of outer suburban Basel. This photographic studio is located in what was formerly one of the older suburbs of villas in a land
Siza’s commision for Vitra has developed in two phases. The program first included an office building and a factory for the metal elements of the Vitrashop systems. Siza located two buildings on either side of the Charles Eames Strasse, wich is the p
Frank Gehry will also have his museum on the German Rhine, like his colleagues Meier, Stirling and Hollein. The Vitra museum is the product of his relationship with furniture designers and builders, and also of his contacts with that pop art whose vi
El encuentro en 1953 de Willi Fehlbaum, propietario de una tienda de muebles, con las sillas de contrachapado de los Eames fue el inicio del ‘proyecto Vitra’. Desde entonces, esta empresa familiar, dirigida por Rolf Fehlbaum, ha ido incorporando a lo
El primer edificio construido en Europa por el americano Frank Gehry, el Museo Vitra en Weil am Rhein, Alemania, alberga hasta el 13 de marzo de 2011 una exposición sobre los doce proyectos más importantes desarrollados por el estudio desde 1997, el
Desde que en 1981 un incendio destruyera la mayor parte del edificio de producción del fabricante de muebles Vitra, su sede en Weil am Rhein —una pequeña localidad alemana a escasos kilómetros de Basilea— ha servido como campo de experimentación arqu
