As part of 36 selected projects our LANDSKRONHOF courtyard building in Basel is featured in the first annual compendium of Swiss architecture. The “SAY 23 – Swiss Archtitecture Yearbook 2023/24” was prominently introduced end of the first week of September at Foyer Public of Basel theater. Simultaneously a travelling exhibition started in S AM – Swiss Architecture Museum.
At the beginning of September we shared our nearly finieshed JARDIN MÉTROPOLE residential and commercial building with architecture guests and collagues of SIA “de 5 à 7” on-site event. Together with our client Vitali’s Generation AG we showed and explained the current status of the project and its development at Bärenplatz in Biel-Mett.
Mid of August we welcomed and celebrated our newly opened office extension. Two street numbers south of the existing main space a similar but overall very different backyard opens up not only to the very depth of the plot but also and interestingly exciting to the sky above. We are delighted to use this additional historic and cabrio-like spatial configuration for all kinds of work related gathering and get-together among our guests and colleagues. Thrilling to see what our newly captured architecture will offer us in the forthcoming time.
21.09.2022
Live at Mextrópoli
On Sep 21, 2022 HHF co-founders Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler were invited for a lecture in Mexixo City at Mextrópoli, the XII Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. Under the title of Architectural Topographies the duo presented HHF strategies and methodologies concerning projects in Mexico, France, China and Switzerland to a live audience of circa 2,000 people.
Jardin Métropole, a competition-winning design by HHF for a 30-meter-high apartment tower in the Biel community of Mett, has now reached its final height. The construction – after being approved by the inhabitants of Biel/Bienne in a public vote – began in June 2021, and is due to be finalised in June 2023.
04.05.2022
Welcome to HHF OPEN OFFICE
On May 13, HHF opens its doors from 12.00-18.00 and YOU are invited! We will show you what we are working on in different scales and environments ranging from institutions and housing complexes to urbanistic masterplans. We also invite you to an apéro with DJ, drinks and our office-made Flammekueche. HHF Open Office is part of Arkitekturwoche Basel. Please RSVP to anders@hhf.ch
22.04.2022
Going Green
Landskronhof, a densification project in Basel is nearing completion. Nature is invited in by implementing greenery on the structure and its surroundings through plants and vines climbing the surrounding firewalls of neighbouring garages, as well as on the vertical balcony rods emphasizing the facade.
Starlette, the first important cornerstone of the urban development Strasbourg Deux-Rives along the Rhine and the harbour, is designed by HHF in collaboration with Dominique Coulon & Associés and Estudio Tatiana Bilbao. The project broke ground in the spring of 2021 and will be completed in 2023.
The widely published Swiss Consulate of Chicago in the amazing John Hancock Center by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. A project in collaboration with Kwong Von Glinow.
Simon Frommenwiler will be the first guest at the De/Code Talk. It's held by the Institut für Architektur of the Technische Universität Berlin. Feel free to join on Friday, May 15th, at 6pm via Zoom!
HHF will be giving a public lecture at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris on Monday, October 7th, 19h Auditorium, 7 avenue Albert de Mun. Please feel free to join!
In the frame of the exhibition '1000 Jahre Basler Münster' HHFs peep-box contribution thematizes the alignment of the Minster façade towards a new public space. Each peep-box contains a visual answer to the question "what would be important to us if the cathedral was lost?"
First international summer school at KIT hosted by Simon Hartmann and HHF in collaboration with MAIO and KOSMOS architects. The KIT Campus will become a site for building together, thinking together and living together.
Resulting out of a collaboration between HHF and BIG, the first Puzzle House is a hybrid hovering somewhere between sculpture, architecture, furniture and industrial object.
Something HHF & PINK & BIG in the kitchen... See you at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen. Let's play with the Puzzle House at the Swiss Embassy, a collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group...
Today 12:00 pm at Harvard GSD, Stubbins Room, HHF lecture on Collective Architecture by the three partners Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler...
Simon Hartmann is lecturing at Yale School of Architecture tonight. The lecture takes place at Hastings Hall, 6:30pm. Please join if you happen to be in New Haven.
HHF's apartment building Byfangweg in Basel, Switzerland has been awarded with the Auszeichnung Guter Bauten 2018 award, the distinction of Kanton Basel-Stadt and Kanton Basel-Landschaft for good architecture.
We're happy to be part of the 44 Low-resolution Houses exhibition by MOS Architects opening tomorrow September 11, 5:30pm at North Gallery, Princeton University School of Architecture...
HHF are happy to start a great new adventure. The three partners Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler start teaching their 3 year studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design this week...
HHF wins competition for 3 mixed-use Buildings in Münchenstein near Basel. The program consists family housing, student housing and clusters for apartment-sharing communities....
The Luxembourg Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia, featuring HHF's Parking and More is open to the public. The Arch+ feature devoted to the Pavilion is available in the exhibition for visitors.
AWP and HHF wins the ADC Award for the cultural building of the year, for Poissy Galore, at Archi Design Club Awards 2018 in Paris.
10.03.2018
Workshop in New York
HHF is working together with Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, MOS Architects, DOGMA, MAIO and Dellekamp Arquitectos on a social housing project in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, shows "Schweizweit", a visual atlas of current Swiss architecture, produced by S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in co-operation with practices from all regions of Switzerland. Opening December 14, 18:30, with talks by Andreas Ruby and Simon Frommenwiler.
We are pleased, that the Insects Museum and Observatory in Carrières-sous-Poissy are among the nominees of the national french "l'Equerre d'argent 2017" award.
HHF is showing an installation on its flexible parking structure "Parking & More" at Chicago Architecture Biennial. The installation consists a wooden model and a series of screen prints, designed in collaboration with graphic designer Jiri Oplatek...
The Insects Museum and Observatory in Poissy, Paris where officially opened June 24. Enjoy a series of fresh pictures by Iwan Baan, made on this occasion...
Tonight, 7 pm, you have the chance for a first glimpse of the exhibition "IN LAND AUS LAND. SWISS ARCHITECTS ABROAD" at S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. The exhibition includes HHF's Baby Dragon, Artfarm, Labels II and Dom Revolucije...
Chart Architecture 2017 launch at Realdania in Copenhagen, with a panel discussion on 'The Living City' with Bjørnstjerne Christiansen (Artist, SUPERFLEX), Jakob Lange (Architect, BIG), Simon Frommenwiler (Architect, HHF)...
Presentation of the results of the study and future laboratory for new guiding principles for urban development in densified metropolitan areas — vision or utopia?
HHF wins the invited competition for the construction of 70 apartments, ateliers and commercial surfaces on the site of Entrepôts in Renens, Lausanne. The project to replace the existing railway storage sheds will be developed by the Swiss Federal Railways Real Estate SBB AG.
Well Into the 21st Century — Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal reflect on the current political re-engagement of our discipline. HHF Architects are honored to be part of that chart and happy to engage in the discussion among contemporary emerging architectural practices.
Simon Frommenwiler will give a public lecture on the occasion of the Lithuanian Architecture Festival KAFe 2016 in Kaunas on Thursday, October 13th, 19h...
On Sunday May 29, House C is open to the public and can be visited for the first time. Opening hours are 10am – 12pm and 2pm – 4pm, for directions please visit the following link…
HHF Architects will be tutors of the 4th International Summer School of Architecture, organized by the School of Architecture and design, University American College Skopje. Summer school will take place in Ohrid, from June 25th – July 2nd 2016.
In the summer 2016 Garden Variety issue of PIN–UP Magazine, Andrew Ayers talks about the Poissy museum and observatory as subtle architectural makeover of a former wasteland….
HHF Architects and Sadar + Vuga have won a competition to adapt and reconstruct Montenegro's Dom Revolucije, a monument to Socialist revolution that has lain unfinished and derelict for almost 30 years…