This year’s office trip took us to the Vitra Campus, where an architectural guided tour offered fascinating insights into the architecture and design of the site. In addition to the Schaudepot, we visited the Circle Store, the Duale Hochschule and the VitraHaus.
After a stop at one of our construction sites, we rounded off the day with a dinner at Waldhaus beider Basel, enjoying views of the Rhine.
…The submitted design is an architecturally high-quality project that resolves the complex brief coherently and with urban-design precision. (…) The school and village centre are brought together precisely through the proposed open spaces, forming a unified setting for intensive future-oriented public use. This settlement-defining starting point is consistently carried through in both the landscape and architectural design. –Jury report
Our projects, the Kreuzlingen Retirement Center and the Swiss Embassy Singapore, have been honored with the BIG SEE Award. We are delighted by this international recognition, which honors the quality of our work.
4th place goes to the Düdingen primary school extension: a compact and sustainable wood-build design connecting school life, outdoor space, and community.
«The project demonstrates outstanding cost-effectiveness thanks to its compact volumetry, sustainably efficient layout, and structural simplicity in both the new building and the existing structures. The decision to forgo a basement in the new building is also to be regarded as particularly resource-saving and exemplary.» — Jury Report, City of Baden, 2025
School building Kappelerhof Baden
«The project is particularly convincing due to the sectional figure in the courtyard area between the old and new buildings. The transformation of the covered circulation area into a lively place with a high quality of stay is presented in a credible way.» – Jury report
Office trip to Toggenburg with a guided tour of the Resonanz Center, the Klanghaus, and the top station of Chäserugg.
As a compact building, the 'open heart' of the Rotkreuz municipality is positioned close to the post office building to the south. This arrangement frees up the western Dorfmatt square as a shared public space while also creating the new 'Bahnhofplatz' as a generous connection to the cantonal school and the sports park. — Jury report, Municipality of Risch, 2025
The first stone has been laid for the Sonnenberg swimming pool in Engelberg. From now on, the new swimming pool will become more visible week by week. As part of the current work, a shaft with wastewater heat recovery will be installed. This system extracts heat from wastewater (e.g., from showers) and feeds it into the building's circulation system, which can cover around half of the pool's future heat demand.
Reopening of Jean Tschumi’s main building after renovation
A further stage in the completion of the WHO and United Nations campus in Geneva has been completed. The iconic building designed by Jean Tschumi in the 1960s and renovated by Itten+Brechbühl was supplemented by a new building by Berrel Berrel Kräutler in 2022. Further information on the project in the WHO video: → Global Home for Health
The Oasis project for the further development of the Sunnegrund school site in Steinhausen wins the open competition.
Two cleverly positioned buildings offer flexible learning, sports and leisure facilities. The compact design allows for large-scale green structures and diverse recreational zones that harmoniously interweave the Sunnegrund school site with the surrounding nature. The different uses are distributed across two buildings: The western building houses the triple gymnasium, the supplementary childcare facilities and classrooms. The indoor swimming pool is located in the northern pavilion.
The ice rink follows the architectural idea of a solid base with an attached, transparent, luminous crown. This not only creates an exciting concept for the interior and exterior of the building, but also provides a suitable response to the completely different boundary conditions for the various uses and users.
The Minergie Association has presented the Swiss Embassy in Singapore with the Minergie-A certificate.
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It is a great honor for us to be counted among the best. We are delighted with the recognition and look forward to the forthcoming publication.
“The quality of the design lies in its great clarity and stringent spatial conception, which can easily meet all programmatic requirements.” — Jury report, City of Zurich 2024
The new building is a “hit”, Kreuzlingen retirement center becomes a competence center for ageing issues — Building C before completion.
It started with the idea of a site visit in Kreuzlingen and ended in a two-day office trip with all the trimmings.
Our project UNIVERS for the UniHub at the University of Neuchâtel wins the open competition.
On December 14 at 9:15, Raphael Kräutler will speak about our building envelopes. The lecture by Stamatina Kousidi and Mario Scaglia's professorship can also be followed online: Webex link
Many thanks to the municipality of Engelberg, which has clearly accepted our project.
Our project was chosen for a great construction task at a beautiful location: The Sonnenberg swimming pool in Engelberg.
"a very well crafted and presented proposal that very consistently pursues an overarching idea" (from the jury report) - We would like to thank the jury and congratulate the strong winners
The vocational training centre on the Polyfeld campus in Muttenz has cleared the next hurdle: the building commission approved our construction project for the renovation and expansion of the former FHNW. This means that construction work can begin in summer 2023. They will last four years.
A three-day office trip in Valais with a packed programme of architecture, hiking and cuisine
After a visit to Geneva, François Esquivié responds to this with: "The spatial qualities, the generosity and the refreshing simplicity of the architecture of Berrel Kräutler's building nevertheless makes you want to come back to the office after months of working at home".
When this competition project was designed, there was snow over Schwamendingen.... And in these hot days we are delighted about its success and the refreshing pictures.
Their annual conference took the Swiss cantonal architects to the administration building on Pulverstrasse in Ittigen.
The administration building on the DETEC campus in Ittigen has received the "Building with Swiss Wood" award.
This year's fair trade Swissbau in Basel will open its doors on Tuesday 3 May. The administration building in Ittigen will be the subject of two presentations.
The Swiss practice of the architectural competition is the subject of an exhibition in Singapore. Our project for the embassy in Singapore is presented as one of the examples.
DOM publishers have produced a comprehensive publication on an exciting typology with our fire station in Pratteln as a practical example.
Our contribution for the last building blocks on the large construction site in Basel was not quite able to convince the jury.
The apartment building above ground has already been removed. Thanks to a webcam on the construction site, we can now follow the progress live. The new elderly residence is scheduled for completion in 2024.
Espazium's special issue "City of wood VII" focuses on the pioneering role of our administration building in Ittigen as one of the first composite wood and concrete constructions of this scale.
In its current issue, the Austrian magazine is dedicated to the topic of material & surface and also to our building on the DETEC campus in a comprehensive article.
“The upgrading serves bilateral ties” states the traditional Swiss National Day special supplement of Singapore's daily financial newspaper.
Swiss Embassy Singapore
We are delighted and honoured to receive this award twice.
In the current issue of Lignum's wood bulletin, there is an article worth seeing about the building on Pulverstrasse.
The St. Jakobshalle by Berrel Berrel Kräutler and Degelo Architekten was nominated in the category Public Buildings. We are looking forward to the award ceremony and are happy about every vote from the audience: “Award for Marketing + Architecture”
Our “erratic” on the banks of the river Thur narrowly misses out on winning the open competition for a new high school.
SIA inForm and TEC21 show the potential of timber as a building material in the series «wood constructive". In the current event, the focus is on building with hardwood, especially beech. Maurice Berrel will report on our experiences with beech wood in the Pulverstrasse administration building in Ittigen.
The Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics has published a book about the administration building in Ittigen - a nice conclusion to the project!
This precisely integrated project in the heart of Zurich was developed in collaboration with weberbrunner architekten at the end of 2020.
We are delighted to contribute to the establishment of a promising new standard.
The building administration of the municipality of Kreuzlingen has given the go-ahead for the extension of the retirement residence with a new apartment wing.
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The photographer Mirjam Kluka looked over our shoulders for two days and immortalised many beautiful moments.
The studio Herrmann Germann has given us a completely new look — thank you very much!
The project for the embassy in Singapore has received a portrait in the special issue of TEC21 / TRACÉS / archi. Many thanks to the editors and to Jean-Pierre Wymann for the article.
Between the first and the second waves of Covid 19, fortunately, we had an opportunity to make a spontaneous visit to the nearly completed building for the UVEK. On a beautiful summer’s day, a large group of current and former employees travelled to Ittigen.
