Aquestion of integration

摘要

'I love it when you see those big, blank walls of beautiful old rendered buildings, covered in sil-ver graffiti," says Emanuel Christ, with alarming relish. These might be unexpected words from an architect whose built portfolio is dominated by careful interventions in historic buildings - from the renovation of the 1898 Swiss National Museum in Zurich, to the renewal of the 1855 Swiss Church in London. But Christ & Gantenbein is not a practice to be pigeonholed, and at its latest project in Basel this comment makes perfect sense.