Thursday 14 July 2011

Vitra

Another architecture day...

The campus of Vitra Design just outside Basel in Weil am Rhein Germany has probably the highest concentration of contemporary star architecture in the world.  There is so much here to see.  I joined a tour of the campus in order to see all the buildings in close range.  I was there for six hours and still reluctant to leave ...

Getting the most of the best to the greatest number of people for the least. - Charles Eames

Frank Gehry's 1989 Vitra Design Museum:




Tadao Ando's 1993 Conference Pavilion:


Richard Buckminster Fuller patented, Thomas C. Howard designed Dome, 2000:




There are also buildings by Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and SANAA (construction in progress) but they are not open to the public.