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Seeing the past in a new light: BURRI at Zurich Central ...

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BURRI

04.10.2023

Leveraging its own long history of expertise in the sphere of public-space design, Swiss specialists BURRI played a major role in putting the architectural heritage of Zurich's central train station back into the spotlight…

Off to the outdoors!

BURRI

28.04.2023

Outdoor teaching creates positive learning experiences. The prerequisite for this are suitably equipped outdoor spaces of kindergartens and schools, also called "green classrooms".

Architonic Story: BURRI

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Architonic

10.06.2021

Star of the show: The Stella public-furniture family from Swiss outdoor specialist BURRI has a new addition – a robust, eye-catching, seat-and-table combination called Stella Campus. Watch the video to find out more…

Bright Lights, Big City: urban-lighting projects that dazzle

Alyn Griffiths

17.03.2014

The highly utilitarian nature of urban lighting hasn’t stopped designers and manufacturers from adding value to projects that illuminate our cities through forward-facing design and technology. Architonic sheds some light…

The Shapeshifter: material innovation FluidSolids

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Simon Keane-Cowell

16.10.2013

Nominated for this year's Design Prize Switzerland, Zurich-based designer Beat Karrer's material innovation FluidSolids, with its strong ecological credentials and impressive programmability, is poised to give traditional materials like metal and

Easily LED: the charms (and challenges) of a developing ...

Simon Keane-Cowell

20.03.2013

Many hands make light work, goes the old saying. Many new LED producers also make the creative possibilities of working with such a fast-changing technology exciting, thanks to the proliferation of products they bring to the market. But, for lighting

Olympic Landscapes

Alyn Griffiths

05.06.2012

Among and around the buildings that will house hockey players and hurdlers, cyclists and swimmers throughout the duration of this summer’s Olympic Games in London are public spaces that strive to meet the exacting Olympic standards of excellence

Urban Swiss Design: Glattalbahn Zurich

Dr. phil. Friederike Mehlau Wiebking

28.04.2009

Architonic Series 'Investment Stimulus for Public Projects', Article 1

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Seeing the past in a new light: BURRI at Zurich Central ...

Brand story

Julia Hauch

04.10.2023

Leveraging its own long history of expertise in the sphere of public-space design, Swiss specialists BURRI played a major role in putting the architectural heritage of Zurich's central train station back into the spotlight…

Off to the outdoors!

BURRI

28.04.2023

Outdoor teaching creates positive learning experiences. The prerequisite for this are suitably equipped outdoor spaces of kindergartens and schools, also called "green classrooms".

BURRI: competence that moves and connects

Brand story

Julia Hauch

28.03.2023

From playgrounds in Zurich to the Olympic Games in London, public space specialist BURRI has been bringing projects of all sizes to life for over 120 years, also including the stop infrastructure for Switzerland's Limmattalbahn tram route…

Gimme shelter: BURRI

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Gerrit Terstiege

22.03.2021

With its advanced disabled access, modular format and digital functionality, Swiss firm BURRI’s smart HSI® ONE bus shelter is just what architects and urban planners have been waiting for.

Public service: BURRI

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Gerrit Terstiege

12.02.2021

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: David Chipperfield’s landmark new Kunsthaus extension in Zurich has an equally imposing new public artwork, created by Swiss contemporary artist Pipilotti Rist. Find out how BURRI public elements, together with numerous

Asset light: BURRI

Brand story

Simon Keane-Cowell

23.09.2020

When the Swiss National Bank underwent an extensive renovation, Swiss manufacturing experts BURRI were on hand to turn a new lighting concept for the institution into a luminous reality.

Artistic eye-catcher for Burri Public Elements

BURRI

10.09.2015

To improve the look of the new workshop façade in Zurich-Glattbrugg, Burri Public Elements launched an invitation-only competition in spring 2014. The brief was to set concise accents in the intentionally minimalist architecture with a tarpaulin, 34

Signs of the Times

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Simon Keane-Cowell

20.09.2013

Feeling a little bit lost? It's no surprise, really. As populations grow, cities expand, international travel increases and we all work (and live) harder and faster, it seems that there are ever more new and complex terrains to navigate. Enter a

Upgrading Nature: a Revolutionary Treatment for Wood in ...

BURRI

09.03.2012

Wood in the Public Space – an Exciting Challenge: we identify a city based on its buildings, its landscape architecture, and its density – however, it is above all the city furniture that makes a cityscape unique and distinctive.

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