- Diener & Diener
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Diener & Diener is an architectural firm based in Basel, Switzerland. It was founded by Marcus Diener in 1942 and became Marcus Diener Architekt in 1948. His son, Roger Diener, joined the firm in 1980, when it was renamed Diener & Diener, and has "transformed" the firm.[1]
Extension to Swiss Embassy in Berlin by Diener & Diener, 2001
The firm is considered "one of the most respected names in Europe with an architecture of rigour, austerity, and material literacy." [1] Roger Diener studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and later returned as a professor. He is one of the co-founders of Studio Basel,[1][2] a practice-based architectural education outpost of ETHZ. Diener has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the School of Architecture in Vienna, Academia van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Orkanen (the hurricane) is Malmö university building by diener and dienerContents
Projects
- Hammer 1 Residence, Basel (1981)[1]
- St Alban-Tal housing, Basel (1986)[1]
- Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany (1990)[1]
- Kohlenberg office building, Basel (1995)[1]
- Warteck Brewery residential buildings, Basel (1996).
- Vogesen school building, Basel (1996)[1]
- Schauspielhaus (theater building), Basel (1997) (won competition) [1]
- CentrePasquArt, an art museum in Bienne, Switzerland, (1999)([1] in French),
- Extension to Swiss Embassy, Berlin (2000)[1]
- Hotel Schweizerhof and Migros supermarket in Lucerne, Switzerland (2000)
- residential buildings on Java Island Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2000)
- new University in Malmö, Sweden (won competition) (2001)[1]
- Yperg Vinex housing, The Hague, the Netherlands (2003)[1]
- Teachers Training Center in Malmö, Sweden (2005)[3][4]
- Forum 3 Novartis Campus in Basel (2005),
- A block for athletes at the Olympic Village, Turin, Italy (2006)
- Kattendijkdok residential buildings, Antwerp, Belgium (2008)
Projects in development
- Extension of the Museum of Natural History Berlin, (-2009)
- Residential and office buildings for the town of Boulogne Billancourt, France (-2008)
- City Park office buildings, Basel (-2010)
- Musée de la Shoah (Holocaust Museum), Drancy, France (-2010)
- Park Residence on the Belvedere site, Cantonal Hospital of Zug, Switzerland (-2010)
- Mobimo Tower on the Maag site, Zurich, Switzerland (-2010)
- Market Hall Tower, Basel (-2010)
- Head Quartier Slam Jam, Ferrara, Italia
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Rattenbury, Kester; Rob Bevan and Kiernan Long (2004). Architects of Today. Laurence King. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9781856694926. http://books.google.com/books?id=LmFooNzPaN0C.
- ^ Studio Basel website
- ^ Malmo University website
- ^ broken link
External links
- Floor nature biography http://www.floornature.com/articoli/articolo.php?id=31&sez=6
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