Jacques Herzog
Jacques Herzog
Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd., or Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH, is a Swiss architecture firm with its head office in Basel, Switzerland. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzogand Pierre de Meuronclosely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologyin Zurich. They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of Tate Modern. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have...
architecture people
It's people only that you see, there's very little architecture that you see inside,
equal goal importance nature
Our goal here was to give equal importance to visitors, nature and art,
building cannot crowd design huge instrument people sky surround using work
The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it.
competition fans few huge knew light soccer win
We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color,