Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for Swiss bank on the shore of Lake Geneva
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its designs for the new headquarters of Swiss wealth management service and private bank Lombard Odier, which will overlook Lake Geneva. More
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Steven Holl unveils winning design for Doctors Without Borders operation centre in Geneva
Steven Holl Architects is teaming up with Rüssli Architekten to create a new headquarters for a major humanitarian organisation in Geneva, which will feature walls of tinted photovoltaic glazing. More
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Cylindrical headquarters for motorcycling federation features dramatic sweeping staircase
Slender metal columns support the offset concrete roof of this cylindrical office block designed by Local Architecture for the International Motorcycling Federation on the outskirts of Geneva. More
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GMAA's Meditation Pavilion and Garden creates contemplative atmosphere at Swiss home
A+Awards 2016: artificial mist envelops this wooden meditation pavilion near Geneva, which earned its designers GM Architectes Associés an Architizer A+Award earlier this year (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier's Immeuble Clarté housing informed his Unité d'Habitation design
World Heritage Corb: long before he built the famed Cité Radieuse in Marseille, French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier explored similar housing principles for the 1932 Immeuble Clarté in Geneva – one of 17 of his buildings added to UNESCO's World Heritage list (+ slideshow). More
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SOM builds new Geneva headquarters for Japan Tobacco International
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
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Aurélie Monet Kasisi adds wooden walls with built-in storage to family home in Geneva
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
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Raw concrete contrasts with 19th-century details at Le Gazouillis kindergarten
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
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Bureau A recreates Stonehenge using shipping containers
Swiss architecture firm Bureau A has created Steelhenge: a recreation of the prehistoric English stone circle built from 50 shipping containers. More
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Bureau A builds a model Soviet city inside L'asticot boutique
Swiss childrenswear brand L'asticot has collaborated with architecture firm Bureau A to install a miniature cardboard city at its Geneva store (+ slideshow). More
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Localarchitecture's Confignon House features concrete walls and a zig-zagging roof
This bulky concrete house on the outskirts of Geneva was designed by Swiss office Localarchitecture with a jagged roofline that follows the slope of its hillside site. More
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Two In One Villa by clavienrossier
A pitched roof and six walls appear as a single block of concrete around these two residences in Geneva by Swiss architects clavienrossier (+ slideshow). More
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The Portal by Bureau A
Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal "illegal activities" in the entrance to their Geneva studio. More
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Goodnight Day by JamesPlumb
London designers JamesPlumb present a solo show of their work in Geneva this month, including a three-piece suite made by inserting cast concrete seats between the carved frames of a reclaimed sofa and armchairs. More
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Coral House by Group8
Swiss architects Group8 have completed this residential block covered in pink sun screens in Geneva. More
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Naked City Landscape by Natascha Madeiski and Alexander Graef
Designer Natascha Madeiski and architect Alexander Graef used cut-out paper to create this wintry window display for Septieme Etage boutique in Geneva. More
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Aviary by Group8 with Guscetti & Tournier structural engineering
Swiss architects Group8 with Guscetti & Tournier structural engineering are building this aviary in the Bois de la Bâtie public park in Geneva, Switzerland. More