Young Zurich architects win prizes
The Zurich architects Comte / Meuwly won the Foundation Award 2021. Second place in this award for young Swiss architecture went to Solanella's Van Noten Meister, also in Zurich, and the third to Oekofacta in Winterthur.
The canton of Zurich attracts good young architects. All three podium places of the Foundation Awards 2021 went to offices in the canton, and almost all of the award winners came from outside the country.
The Comte / Meuwly office in Zurich received first prize. The two Romands Adrien Comte and Adrien Meuwly were more interested in everyday life and nameless architecture than in building icons, the jury wrote in its reasoning . The work of the office included an extension of a prefabricated wooden house in Geneva as well as a canopy over an old building door and sails for a buvette. "At a time when many are looking for historical references and lovely colors, this minimalist hardness and lightness is surprising and fresh," said the jury.
Angel Solanellas Terés, Camiel Van Noten and Marianne Meister met at a workshop in Antwerp and are now working together in Zurich. You won over the jury with your projects for the Brigerberg residence in Ried-Brig VS and for the Köbö studio in Zurich.
Saikal Zhunushova from the Oekofacta office in Winterthur impressed with her gentle renovation of a Flarzhaus from 1832 in the Zurich Oberland. She also involved the family of the house in the work. The architect trained in Kyrgyzstan combines suggestions from her old and new homeland in her work. She brings the Kyrgyz yurt as a garden pavilion to Switzerland and energy-saving construction projects from Switzerland to Kyrgyzstan.
The Foundation Award has been honoring young Swiss architecture firms since 2010. The award is sponsored, among others, by the cultural television art-tv.ch , the architecture magazine “Hochparterre ”, the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel and Swissbau.