Hortus Allschwil / Herzog & de Meuron

The Switzerland Innovation Park, Allschwil, home to life sciences enterprises, continues to grow. The sustainable Hortus office building creates a modern and flexible working environment for a new generation of technology companies that are settling in the Basel metropolitan region. Our client, Senn, commissioned us to design a radically sustainable office building made of renewable and recyclable building materials. The brief initiated a design process aimed at combining the lowest possible grey energy during construction, an energy-optimized concept during operation, and a surplus of self-generated energy. After 31 years, the building, which has around 600 workplaces, will have fully offset the energy used during its construction. Our collaboration with Senn and a team of experienced specialist planners has resulted in one of the most sustainable office buildings in the German-speaking world.

Phan Rang is often referred to as the "Desert of Vietnam". It endures a harsh climate, with up to 9 months of arid sunlight and prolonged drought. This sunburnt landscape is covered by endless fields of rocks & stone. Yet, these rocky surfaces are not lifeless or desolate—they are home to resilient vitality.

GOM's affordable-rental housing practice before 2025 can be read as four successive iterations—1.0 through 4.0. - 1.0: Longnan Garden Social Housing Estate (public-rental housing); 2.0: Lingang Price-fixed Housing (price-fixed housing and rental housing); 3.0: Xuhui Binjiang Talent Apartments (resettlement and affordable-rental housing); 4.0: Change X Community (affordable-rental housing).

Bumi Pakubuwono is an adaptive reuse project that transforms an existing three-story office building into a creative lifestyle compound, blending the old and new, human and environment, nature and architecture.