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Factory Building, Nicholas Grimshaw, 1981
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Balancing Tools, Claes Oldenburg &
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Gate, Frank Gehry, 1989
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Factory Building, Frank Gehry, 1989
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Conference Pavilion, Tadao Ando, 1993
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Fire Station, Zaha Hadid, 1993
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Factory Building, Álvaro Siza, 1994
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Dome, after Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1975/2000
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Petrol Station, Jean Prouvé, 1953/2003
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Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Frank Gehry, 2003
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Bus Stop, Jasper Morrison, 2006
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VitraHaus, Flagshipstore for Home Collection &
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Airstream Kiosk, 1968/2011
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Factory and Logistics Building, SANAA, 2012
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Diogene, Renzo Piano, 2013
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Álvaro-Siza-Promenade, 2014
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Vitra Slide Tower, Carsten Höller, 2014
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Bell, from: 24 Stops, Tobias Rehberger, 2015
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Blockhaus, Thomas Schütte, 2018
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Ruisseau, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2018
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Ring, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2018
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Oudolf Garten, Piet Oudolf, 2020
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Torre Numero Due, Nathalie Du Pasquier, 2021
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Umbrella House, Kazou Shinohara, 1961/2022
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Place Jean Prouvé, 2022
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Circle Store Vitra, 2023
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Khudi Bari, 2024
Vitra Campus
The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein near Basel is a unique ensemble
of contemporary architecture. Buildings by Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry,
Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Álvaro Siza and other leading
architects are united with exhibitions, installations, shops and Vitra
furniture production in a single location. #VitraCampus
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The collection of the Vitra Design Museum
ranks among the most important holdings of
furniture design worldwide. It contains some
7000 pieces of furniture dating from 1800
to the present day, over 1000 lighting objects
as well as numerous archives and the estates
of several prominent designers. Since 2016,
approximately 400 key objects from the
collection are on permanent display in the
Vitra Schaudepot, which was designed by
Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron.
The 30-metre-high Vitra Slide Tower
by Carsten Höller is located along the
Álvaro-Siza-Promenade, which connects
the north and south parts of the Vitra
Campus. Accessible to the public in fine
weather, the free-standing work of art
offers an exceptional view of the Vitra
Campus and a thrilling experience on
the 38-metre-long corkscrew slide.
The Tane Garden House was designed by
Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane
and built by local craftsmen using sustainable
and, wherever possible, locally sourced
materials.
Since its opening in 1989, the Vitra Design
Museum has become one of the world’s
leading design museums. It is dedicated to
the research and presentation of design, past
and present, and examines the relationship
to architecture, art and everyday culture.
The main building designed by Frank Gehry
hosts several major exhibitions per year,
while the neighbouring Vitra Design Museum
Gallery showcases current perspectives on
design and architecture.
Designed by Zaha Hadid, the Fire Station
on the Vitra Campus was the Iraqi-British
architect’s first major built work. The
jaggedly expressive volumes contrast with
the orthogonal order of the adjacent factory
buildings, like an explosion frozen in time.
The sculptural structure was originally used
to house the company’s fire brigade. Today
it hosts Vitra installations and exhibitions
by the Vitra Design Museum.
A garden by the renowned Dutch designer
Piet Oudolf was inaugurated on the Vitra
Campus in May 2020. The artfully composed
wilderness is in full bloom from summer to
early autumn.
Originally intended as a showroom for the
Vitra Home Collection, the VitraHaus has
become a beacon for the Vitra brand over
the past ten years. Visible from a distance,
it marks the northern entrance to the Vitra
Campus and sends an unmistakeable signal:
Vitra not only produces furniture in Weil
am Rhein, but also focuses its attention on
architecture, art and interior design.
The Vitra Campus App
is available in the App Store
and Google Play Store.
Flooding in Bangladesh has become increasingly
unpredictable due to climatechange, regularly
displacing hundreds ofthousands of people and
forcing them to seek a new home. It was in light of
this context that Marina Tabassum and her team
at MTA Architects developed the Khudi Bari
(‘small house’) concept.
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