Christ & Gantenbein Swiss national museum extension, Zurich

Date: February 22, 2016

The Swiss National Museum is expanded and thus enabled to show changing exhibitions dedicated to recent Swiss history. The concrete walls of the new building form a bridge that closes the U-shaped existing building and proposes a new path within the museum. The roof landscape of the extension clearly refers to the wild pitched-roofs composition of the original. The extension establishes a relationship to the surrounding park and emphasizes the view axis to the museum courtyard. Thus the building adapts to local architectural circumstances and forms a corresponding ensemble with the historic part

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