SUPERBLOCK WINTERTHUR

Faced with questions about how to adapt and reuse a former industrial site in the center of town, an international insurance corpora tion, together with the Swiss city of Winterthur, held a competition among architecture and design firms to come up with an innovati ve, effective plan. The winning firm was the Vienna-based Architect Krischanitz, and their submission, Superblock, is a striking ide a given a brilliant execution: it combines a large workshop where diesel engines were assembled with newly constructed yet visually complemen...[Leer más]