This rural house in Switzerland by local studio Architetti Pedrozzi e Diaz Saravia is raised off the hillside on a pair of gigantic concrete columns (+ slideshow). More about House in Sonvico by Architetti Pedrozzi e Diaz Saravia
News: construction is underway on an outdoor bathing lake in Riehen, Switzerland, by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. More about Work starts on Herzog & de Meuron's Naturbad Riehen swimming pool
Unfinished concrete surfaces and wire-fencing balustrades give an industrial aesthetic to the interiors of this apartment building in Lausanne, Switzerland, by local studio Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects (+ slideshow). More about Apartment Building in Chailly by Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects
Herzog & de Meuron has added three new halls to the Messe Basel exhibition centre in the north of the Swiss city where the architects are based (+ slideshow). More about Messe Basel New Hall by Herzog & de Meuron
This family house in Switzerland by Chinese architects EXH Design has a corner missing from its roof to allow space for a triangular roof terrace (+ slideshow). More about Private House Bellmund by EXH Design
Swiss studio Mauro Turin Architectes wants to celebrate the history of the Lavaux wine-making region in Switzerland by cantilevering a museum from the side of a mountain (+ slideshow). More about Wine Museum in Lavaux by Mauro Turin Architectes
Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann used raw concrete, oak and travertine to create the smooth walls and floors of this home and poolhouse overlooking Lake Zurich (+ slideshow). More about Two Verandas by Gus Wüstemann
Steel trees with sprawling branches support the glass roof of this greenhouse in Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest Architekten (+ slideshow). More about Greenhouse at Grüningen Botanical Garden by Buehrer Wuest Architekten
This concrete house in Switzerland by Basel studio on3 architekten has gabled end walls that appear folded along central vertical seams (+slideshow). More about Wohnhaus Ginkgo by on3 architekten
This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More about Holzkristal by Hurst Song Architekten
Plastic carrier bags glow like lamps from within two skips that Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus have placed at the entrance to the Gewerbemuseum in northern Switzerland. More about Plastic Garbage Guarding the Museum by Luzinterruptus
Florida-based firm Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Swiss studio Huesler Architekten have created offices for themselves in an eighteenth century building in northern Switzerland and constructed a new house in the garden behind (+ slideshow). More about Kirchplatz Office and Residence by Oppenheim and Huesler Architekten
Swiss architects Bureau A have created decorative steel gates to discourage nocturnal "illegal activities" in the entrance to their Geneva studio. More about The Portal by Bureau A
A ring of shelves encloses a padded reading room at this bookshop by designers Kawamura-Ganjavian and architects NOR. More about Librairie La Fontaine by Kawamura-Ganjavian and NOR architectes
Students at the Geneva University of Art and Design have formed a travelling commune inside a collection of shipping containers and have been staging performances around Switzerland. More about The Commune by Geneva University of Art and Design students
It took just four minutes and nine seconds to install this prefabricated guest house designed by British architect Richard Horden on a site overlooking Lake Maggiore in Switzerland (+ movie). More about Micro Compact Home 016 by Richard Horden
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to design a children's hospital and a teaching/research centre in Zurich, Switzerland. More about Children’s Hospital Zurich by Herzog & de Meuron
A white concrete extension flows over the top of a former brewery in Zurich to give Swiss arts organisation the Kunsthalle Zürich its first permanent home. More about Kunsthalle Zürich by Gigon/Guyer Architects and Atelier WW
Architect Matteo Inches has completely rebuilt the inside of an old farm building in the Swiss town of Vacallo to create a house for the local mayor. More about Casa Rizza by Studio Inches
Swiss architect Aurélie Blanchard has lined every wall and surface in the bar of this Basel restaurant with copper, while a dark green dining room looms just behind. More about Union Restaurant by Aurélie Blanchard