Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Dipl. Architekten ETH/BSA/SIA AG

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8032 Zürich

The architectural firm Gigon/Guyer was founded in Zurich in 1989 by Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer and today works with a team of around 40 architects on projects in Switzerland and abroad. With its first building, the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the office became known beyond the country's borders in 1992. Numerous other museum projects followed, such as the Museum Liner Appenzell, the extension of the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur, and the Archaeological Museum and Park Kalkriese near Osnabrück, Germany, the Albers-Honegger donation in Mouans-Sartoux, France, and the two new buildings for the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne.

The first prize in the competition for the Prime Tower office tower in Zurich, which was inaugurated in 2011 – at the time the tallest building in Switzerland – enabled the architects to work on a larger scale for the first time. This was followed by the realizations of the Würth Haus Rorschach on Lake Constance, the office building "Haus Lagerstrasse" on Europaallee and the Löwenbräu site in Zurich, with an art center, residential high-rise and office building.

In recent years, Gigon/Guyer have also dealt intensively with residential construction, developing new solutions for both upscale and low-cost residential construction. The architectures of Gigon/Guyer differ in their different constructions, materials, shapes and also colors. The basis for this is the independent concepts, which are developed from the specific context and the different tasks.

Gigon/Guyer Architects have received various awards for their work, including the German Fritz Schumacher Prize, the English RIBA Fellowship and the Daylight Award, the most highly endowed architecture prize in Switzerland. Since 2012, Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer have held a professorship in architecture and construction at ETH Zurich.

Source: Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Dipl. Architekten ETH/BSA/SIA AG