Switzerland’s Fondation Beyeler Opens £109.7m Expansion
The expansion adds three Zumthor-designed buildings, 1,500 square meters of new gallery space and a pavilion for performances and talks.
- The Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, opens three new structures today, September 26, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Peter Zumthor. The expansion cost SFr 120m.
- Zumthor rejected a single, consolidated structure, opting for separate buildings to serve specific functions. "I like art museums that really only serve art," Zumthor stated, aiming for natural integration.
- Three distinct structures anchor the expansion: the rammed-concrete Wyss Museum, the glass-walled Ammann Pavilion, and the Erlen Torhaus office building. Regenerated parkland doubled to nearly 20,000 sq. m.
- Fondation Beyeler director Sam Keller announced a stealthy inauguration period beginning today, September 26, with reduced opening days and limited visitor numbers. Full public opening occurs January 15, 2027.
- The museum launched 'Constellations,' an exhibition featuring 150 modern and contemporary works, to mark the expansion. Running until September 5, 2027, the display bridges the original Renzo Piano galleries and new Zumthor spaces.
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With three new buildings and a large park, the famous Basel art centre expands. The buildings rise up, dialogue with the trees and geography of the place, while the permanent collections grant more spaceA new exhibition opens at the end of September at the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen, near Basel. It is an "exhibition" of architecture, expected to last longer than any other, since it is an extension and reorganization of the spaces of the famous…
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is building three new houses for the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel. One of them is groundbreaking and the other problematic.
For the expansion of the Fondation Beyeler, the architect separates the functions of the museum into three independent buildings.
Fondation Beyeler Unveils Three New Peter Zumthor–Designed Buildings
The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, has revealed a trio of buildings designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the Pritzker Prize–winning designer of the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The three structures, along with the addition of roughly 108,000 square feet of green space, including gardens, expand the […]
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