Blick in das Ensemble

INTERNATIONAL AWARD
ARCHITECTURE IN STONE

The high-rise building complex on Hagenholzstrasse in Zurich won the 2015 International Architecture Award in Stone.

Jury statement:

Among the various projects and achievements for the “Zürich Metro”, West-Zürich and North-Zürich zones, the Hagenholzstrasse building ensemble by Max Dudler is one of the very few interventions that succeeds in expressing a clear urban typology that is aimed towards the future. It is as if the archetypal form of the stone, as a cut block and geometric cube, has determined the architecture in a linear and direct composition that ranges from the smallest detail to the overall mass. The quality of the Hagenholzstrasse ensemble is to be found precisely in this choice of elementary forms that are in harmony with the intrinsic character of the material.