Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architects

Buildings and Projects 1985-2008

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Marcel Meili and Markus Peter founded their architectural office in Zurich, Switzerland, twenty years ago, and have recently opened a subsidiary in Munich, Germany. Meili Peter develop projects of all scales and in many different fields and with a vast variety of programmes, rather than specialising on certain types of buildings and tasks. Urban planning and complex constructive solutions have become an emphasis of their work, though.This first comprehensive monograph on Meili Peter's work presents their buildings as well as unrealised projects, concepts and ideas. The richly illustrated and elaborately designed book combines texts, images, plans and drawings, forming a compendium of Meili Peter's architectural practice. It also includes external views on their work with essays by renowned international fellow architects, such as Adolf Krischanitz and Hermann Czech (Austria), Josep Lluis Mateo (Spain), the acclaimed architect and civil engineer Jürg Conzett and by the well known architectural photographer Heinrich Helfenstein (Switzerland).Important built projects:Platform roof-extension, central railway station, Zurich, SwitzerlandSwiss College of Timber Industry (HF Wood, Berne University of Applied Sciences) Biel/Bienne, SwitzerlandSwiss Re's Center for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon near Zurich, SwitzerlandPark Hyatt hotel complex, Zurich, SwitzerlandHelvetia Patria insurance headquarters, Milan, ItalyUrban planning and residential buildings at Billancourt, Paris, FranceMasterplan and headquarters for Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich, Germany.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-15
Mått:206 x 284 x undefined mm
Vikt:2 150 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
ISBN:9783858817143

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Marcel Meili is a professor for urban planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and co-head of the university's Institute for the Contemporary City in Basel. Together with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Roger Diener he published the much reviewed study Switzerland - An Urban Portrait (Birkhäuser, Basel 2006). Markus Peter is a professor for design and building construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Meili Peter's book Play Pentagon (Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2005, German-language only) on their project for a new football stadium in Zurich was awarded one of Switzerland's most beautiful books 2005.