Christ & Gantenbein

Profile of Christ & Gantenbein

Business Name

Christ & Gantenbein

Location

Switzerland

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.christgantenbein.com

[L-R] Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein

Principal(s)

Emanuel Christ (born 1970) and Christoph Gantenbein (born 1971)

Philosophy

Christ & Gantenbein Architects is a young Swiss architecture company which was established in 1998. Since then, they have participated in numerous competitions and projects. One of them under construction is the reconstruction and extension of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. This was the start of a long series of jobs dealing with both the old and the new, and this theme has followed them throughout different residential realisations. As well as this, Christ & Gantenbein is currently taking part in various large-scale city developments and in several urban planning schemes.

Background

• Founded: 1998
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 34

Key projects

• Swiss National Museum Reconstruction and Extension, Zurich, Switzerland,  2008
• WohnWerk, Workshops and Housing, Basel, Switzerland, 2007-2009
• VoltaMitte, Housing and Office Building, Basel, Switzerland, 2007-2008
• Pavilion for the Jinhua Architecture Park, China, 2005
• Swiss Church, London, 2007
• Bildstockliweg House, Arlesheim, Switzerland, extension and renovation, 2002

Key publications

• Jinhua Architecture Park, The Ancient Tree, domus 894, August 2006
• Jinhua Architecture Park, China, a+u - Feature: Small 435, 2006

Key awards

• 2005, "Architekturpreis Beton 05", Cemsuisse, Switzerland