Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: architect Christian Kerez has built an inhabitable structure inside Switzerland's Biennale pavilion, featuring a cloud-like exterior and a cavernous interior (+ slideshow). More about Christian Kerez creates cavernous cloud to offer "a pure encounter with architecture"
Swiss firm Christ & Gantenbein has added a new gallery building to the Kunstmuseum Basel, featuring a graduated grey-brick facade and a monumental marble staircase (+ slideshow). More about Christ & Gantenbein completes new monochrome building for Kunstmuseum Basel
Swiss studio Dost has transformed a 1960s restaurant into a heart treatment centre in Zurich, featuring cork-lined cubicles and waiting rooms (+ slideshow). More about Dost converts 1960s restaurant into heart clinic with cork cubicles
Architecture firm SOM has completed a major new headquarters for Japan Tobacco International in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring an innovative facade of glass triangles and a huge central courtyard (+ slideshow). More about SOM builds new Geneva headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
A wall of salt, railway clocks and a rock hung from red climbing ropes all feature in artist Rolf Sachs' Swiss-influenced restaurant at Zürich's The Dolder Grand hotel (+ slideshow). More about Rolf Sachs suspends chunk of rock inside Saltz restaurant
Christ & Gantenbein has unveiled its new wing for the National Museum Zurich – an angular concrete edifice conceived by the Swiss architects as a robust and spacious "museum factory" (+ slideshow). More about Christ & Gantenbein adds raw concrete extension to National Museum Zurich
Wooden walls integrate bookshelves, doorways, windows and a foldaway desk inside this family house in Geneva that has been renovated by local architect Aurélie Monet Kasisi (+ slideshow). More about Aurélie Monet Kasisi adds wooden walls with built-in storage to family home in Geneva
Wülser Bechtel Architekten has completed a male hair groomers in Zurich featuring a pair of sculptural mirrors and a floor that reveals traces of the building's history (+ slideshow). More about Sculptural mirrors frame spaces in Zurich barbershop by Wülser Bechtel Architekten
Mottled grey tiles envelop this angular house in the Swiss Alps, which was designed by Milanese firm JM Architecture to look "like a stone in the landscape" (+ slideshow). More about Faceted home in the Swiss Alps by JM Architecture is covered in dark grey tiles
Swiss architect Omar Trinca has added a concrete extension to a 19th-century villa in Geneva, creating more space for the kindergarten that now occupies it (+ slideshow). More about Raw concrete contrasts with 19th-century details at Le Gazouillis kindergarten
Two giant lifts are concealed in the base of this garage in Switzerland, providing access to a secret underground space where a member of a royal family stores vintage cars and motorcycles (+ slideshow). More about B29 creates "James Bond super garage" in Switzerland for a royal client
This data storage centre in Basel has a ridged shell of both perforated and solid steel panels, designed by Ffbk Architects to offer fragmented reflections of the sky and surroundings (+ slideshow). More about FFBK Architects completes "most advanced data storage centre in Switzerland"
Berlin studio Baumhauer has renovated a traditional farmhouse in the Swiss hamlet of Florins, inserting a timber structure that contains new living areas in place of an existing barn (+ slideshow). More about Baumhauer adds timber-lined living spaces to vernacular Swiss farmhouse
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has revealed designs for a plant-covered 36-storey tower in Lausanne, Switzerland, continuing the "vertical forest" concept he trialled with a pair of towers in Milan (+ slideshow). More about Stefano Boeri unveils plans for "vertical forest" tower in Switzerland
Caruso St John Architects has unveiled plans for a new £160 million biomedical laboratory at University of Basel, Switzerland, which features a gridded glass facade and a concrete base with arch-shaped notches. More about Caruso St John reveals designs for university laboratory in Basel
Swiss architecture firm Bureau A has created Steelhenge: a recreation of the prehistoric English stone circle built from 50 shipping containers. More about Bureau A recreates Stonehenge using shipping containers
Pierre-Alain Dupraz Architecte chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). More about Pierre-Alain Dupraz houses Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks
Coarse concrete walls encase this house by Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti, which overlooks Switzerland's Lake Maggiore from a wooded site sunken down below street level (+ slideshow). More about Lakeside home designed by Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti as "archaic stone block"
Herzog & de Meuron has completed a concrete apartment building on the outskirts of Zurich, which has staircases housed in four cylindrical corner towers (+ slideshow). More about Staircase towers form corners of Uster apartment building by Herzog & de Meuron
Chocolate-patterned wall panelling and sofas shaped like Toblerones feature in Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' Swiss-inspired hotel in Zurich (+ slideshow). More about Swiss chocolate influences Marcel Wanders' Kameha Grand Zurich hotel