Colonnade extends from concrete house on an old vineyard in Switzerland
A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. More
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Bureau uses "surgical intervention" to transform chalet into Mr Barrett's House
Experimental architecture studio Bureau has taken a building apart and put it back together again, to create a home for the fictional protagonist of 1963 film The Servant. More
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Think Architecture creates minimal hilltop house in Zurich
A cluster of stone and plaster-lined volumes form Think Architecture's minimalist House in a Park, which sits on a hilltop in Zurich, Switzerland. More
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Index Architectes creates asymmetric Village House in Switzerland
Swiss studio Index Architectes has designed a house in Villarlod, Switzerland, with asymmetric gables and wrapped it in a skin of angular clay tiles. More
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Casa CCFF by Leopold Banchini offers alternative to Switzerland's typical concrete houses
Leopold Banchini Architects has built a house it describes as a "domestic factory" beside an industrial train station in Lancy, Switzerland. More
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Urben Seyboth brightens up interior of Swiss village house from the 1960s
Swiss studio Urben Seyboth has refurbished a mid-century house near Zurich, preserving original details such as the board-marked concrete facades but opening up the interior to create a sequence of brighter spaces. More
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Bureau Brisson Architectes refresh hilltop villa in Lausanne
Swiss practice Bureau Brisson Architectes has reconfigured this large family home overlooking terraced vineyards in Lausanne into three apartments. More
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Bernardo Bader references traditional Alpine architecture in larch-clad home for an art collector
Bernardo Bader Architects has reinterpreted the traditional Alpine chalet using concrete and larch wood to create a home for an art and antique furniture collector on the edge of a village in the Appenzell region of the Swiss Alps. More
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Green and pink stripes add colour to curved walls of house in Switzerland
The signature stripes of artist Daniel Buren cover the curved walls of this timber-framed house by architect Davide Macullo, which functions as a piece of public art in a picturesque Swiss valley. More
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Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti uses local stone and plaster for lakeside house in Switzerland
Variously sized openings scattered across the traditional stone and plaster facades of this house in the Swiss town of Ascona provide views of the garden and Lake Maggiore. More
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Jan Skuratowski's "pavilion-like" House M features large window walls
Large windows are slotted in between concrete and timber-clad floorplates to form this polygonal house in the Swiss town of Möhlin, designed by Basel-based architect Jan Skuratowski. More
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Anako Architecture completes "fortress-like" concrete house in an Alpine town
This robust concrete house in the Swiss town of Savièse steps down the side of a hill and contains rooms lining internal patios that look out towards the nearby mountains. More
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Villa Le Lac is a glass-walled house overlooking Lake Geneva
Swiss architect Philippe Meyer has converted a former office building on the shore of Lake Geneva into a house with glass walls to provide expansive views of the surrounding scenery (+ slideshow). More
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Bare concrete walls enclose HDPF's Haus Meister near Zurich
Air bubbles mark the stark concrete walls of this house that architects office HDPF has built near Zurich's airport (+ slideshow). More
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Rafael Schmid updates his Zurich home with textured chipboard and smooth anhydrite surfaces
Swiss architect Rafael Schmid has overhauled his 1920s home in Zurich, pairing the property's original herringbone parquet flooring with more contemporary chipboard and mineral-based surfaces (+ slideshow). More
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Le Corbusier designed Villa Le Lac as a lakeside home for his parents
World Heritage Corb: the lakeside home Le Corbusier designed for his parents is next up in our series in which we take a closer look at the 17 projects recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. More
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Faceted house by Daluz Gonzalez Architekten features nest-like roof terrace
Swiss firm Daluz Gonzalez Architekten has set a nest-like terrace into the roof of an angular house it has completed in a forest near Basel, Switzerland (+ slideshow). More
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Freiluft uses concrete "tree" to form rooms within Swiss barn conversion
Swiss practice Freiluft has inserted a branching concrete structure inside an old barn in Switzerland's Emmental valley, as part of its conversion into a pair of apartments. More
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Faceted home in the Swiss Alps by JM Architecture is covered in dark grey tiles
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
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Baumhauer adds timber-lined living spaces to vernacular Swiss farmhouse
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
