Switzerland

I went to Bâle (also called Basel) in Switzerland with school for 3 days...
A 7 hour trip by bus, exhausting !!

We visited a LOT of things, of course mostly architectures from famous architects !

But first, I wanted to show you the place we were staying at. It's a youth hostel, but it's brand new and it's SO great compared to anything I've seen before !!
Okay, it kind of looks like a prison, but it's very comfortable and clean !

The doors on the right are the bedrooms, and on the left, the showers.

The entrance
And the dining room !




Now these are social housing, from Peter Zumthor.
They love concrete and raw wood there !

This is a signal center (I'm not sure of the translation, it's to guide trains) from Herzog and De Meuron (They are the one who made the Bird's Nest in Beijing for the Olympic Games)

This is a rehab center from Herzog and De Meuron too. Concrete and wood again...



A museum from Renzo Piano (who built the Beaubourg Museum in Paris with Richard Rogers)



Then we went to visit Vitra (Designer and manufacturer of contemporary furnishings )


This is the fire station from Zaha Hadid (famous women architect who works with the idea of movement. No right angles at all.


The Vitra House, from Herzog and De Meuron again !! Pretty amazing, it's a show room so we got a chance to try all the furnitures inside !


Vitra museum, for Franck Gehry



A building for lectures and conferences from Tadao Ando, japanese architect known for his concrete architectures around the world.
A few leaves fell in the concrete during the construction !



Then, we went to this place :


Pretty scary, it looks like a horror movie, like a huge rock on the hill.
It's a concert hall from Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy



And we ended with Tinguely's museum
He's an artist who works with movement, all of his work moves thanks to a mecanism.
Pretty fun !

Voilà !!