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Discover Germany | Business | Fine Architects
Taking great joy in the extraordinary Swiss architectural and general planning office IttenBrechbühl are specialists for dealing with complex projects from initial planning to key handover appointments since 1922. Due to their innovative custom-made solutions with an exceptional eye for great design and transparency, award-winning IttenBrechbühl are renowned across Europe. TEXT: NANE STEINHOFF | PHOTOS: ITTENBRECHUEHL AG I HANNES HENZ I JOHANNES-MARIA SCHLORKE I VINCENT JENDLY
At home in Switzerland and active throughout Europe with 300 employees from 17 nations in nine locations are sure to offer the best architectural solutions possible. Because the requirements for buildings become more and more complex, whether it's a hospital, laboratory, airport or residential unit, IttenBrechbühl assemble a specific and optimal team out of their international network for each individual project. This open corporate culture across locations is designed to retrieve the maximum expertise and innovation so that each project benefits from a great measure of new ideas and know-how. Putting people in the centre of things inside the company, as well as during their projects, IttenBrechbühl plans, supervises and controls the entire process from general planning to commissioning. While constantly keeping the magic triangle of dead-
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lines, cost and quality in mind, the architectural office offers services in project management, design, construction management and services, as well as planning. Thus, the company is sure to offer a holistic architectural approach. Having successfully realised almost 3,000 projects in various industries, IttenBrechbühl’s architectural creations impress with a clear, modern design language. An example for this is the new construction of PricewaterhouseCooper’s head office in Luxembourg. The free-standing building comprises striking floor plans, a large atrium, a double façade with an appealing alternating wooden geometry and a structure which makes maximum use of the lighting conditions. Another great example of exceptional architecture is the conversion and expansion of Geneva’s Cornavin Station. IttenBrechbühl’s architects and general planners man-
Main image: The Residenza Vivere blu above Lake Maggiore. Photo: Hannes Henz, Zurich Top: The new construction of PricewaterhouseCooper’s head office in Luxembourg. Photo: Johannes-Maria Schlorke, Saarbruecken Above: Geneva’s Cornavin Station. Photo: Vincent Jendly, Lausanne Portrait: The management
aged to disentangle one of Switzerland’s largest railway stations through an intelligent floor plan. The buildings and arcades intended for passengers were converted in order to give the station an overall organisational structure which travellers can immediately grasp. Exclusive private residential homes by IttenBrechbühl stand in Ticino high above Lake Maggiore. The Residenza Vivere blu fascinates with an architecturally simple, straightforward and minimalistic language of form. The residence comprises of eight large apartments in two flats with breathtaking views through floor to ceiling window fronts, a maximum of privacy, generous and open floor plans and a terrace that instils a true holiday mood. www.ittenbrechbuehl.ch