David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and the Kunsthaus Zurich

The book "Kunsthaus Zürich: David Chipperfield Extension" documents the process of designing and constructing David Chipperfield's extension for the Kunsthaus Zürich, which will become Switzerland's largest art museum when it opens in 2021. The book includes a foreword by David Chipperfield and an essay by Christoph Felger, as well as illustrations and plans.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 72 pages
\n Publication date: 14 October 2021
\n Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
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David Chipperfield's new building for the Kunsthaus Zürich, located on Zurich's Heimplatz, opposite the old museum building of 1910 designed by Karl Moser, stands in all its splendor. The museum's opening to the public in October 2021 will make it Switzerland's largest art museum.

This book, the third in a series on Kunsthaus Zürich's architectural history and the design for transforming it into an art museum for the 21st century, documents the genesis of David Chipperfield's extension from proposal to completed structure. It features a foreword by David Chipperfield and an essay by Christoph Felger, executive architect for the project at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, that discusses the design concept, the promise it made, and its fulfillment.

A conversation between Christoph Felger, the director of the City of Zurich's Building Surveyor's Office Wiebke Rösler, and Kunsthaus Zürich's director Christoph Becker, as well as architecture critic Sabine von Fischer, and numerous illustrations and plans, sound out this new volume.

\n Weight: 352g\n
Dimension: 195 x 231 x 11 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9783039420278\n \n