Project update

Hardturm Areal
Facade ensemble

Zurich, Switzerland

Caruso St John is currently preparing the construction phase for the West Tower at the Hardturm site in Zurich. The façades will be clad with floor-to-ceiling folded chrome-steel sheets, for which initial samples have been developed. Through their surface, depth, reflections, and shadows, these elements combine to form a distinctive figure in the building’s elevation.

Planning permission

Riverside Project, Magdalen College

Oxford, United Kingdom

Planning permission has been granted for the Riverside Project at Magdalen College in Oxford. The project is focused on enhancing the social heart of the college — a series of rooms on the east side of the estate clustered around the Old Kitchen Bar and the river terrace overlooking the Cherwell. The scheme will increase social and teaching space, improve access, conserve existing listed fabric, and reduce energy loss as part of an estate-wide programme of decarbonization.

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Under construction

Gutstrasse Cooperative Housing

Zurich, Switzerland

Topped-out! The building cooperative and the contractors celebrated the topping-out ceremony for construction sites A and D. Caruso St John developed the project in collaboration with Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects and is responsible for the smaller residential building, the kindergarten and the cooperative's office within the ensemble.

Museum of Youth Culture is the world's first museum dedicated to the lives of teenagers and young people. Caruso St John is working with the Museum on the design of its new permanent space at St Pancras Campus. Opening soon!

Under construction

Neue Pinakothek

Munich, Germany

Caruso St John's project to refurbish and reorganise Munich's Neue Pinakothek has started on site. An enormous temporary roof has been constructed above the existing building to provide protection whilst works take place, creating a cavernous new interior on top of the museum.

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Planning permission

Darwin College, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Planning permission has been granted for Caruso St John's project to expand social facilities at Darwin College, Cambridge, with a new garden room beneath the college's Grade II listed octagonal dining hall, designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge & Amis.

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Under construction

Gutstrasse Cooperative Housing

Zurich, Switzerland

A façade mock-up had been constructed for two residential buildings designed for the Im Gut housing cooperative. The two buildings, which will face each other along Gutstrasse in Zurich Wiedikon, will be defined by their distinctive combination of tilted corrugated panels and bright yellow highlights.

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Planning permission

Collections and Study Centre
Hospitalfield

Arbroath, Scotland

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Angus council has approved plans for a new Collections and Study Centre at Hospitalfield. The 255 m² building will provide gallery space and archival storage for Hospitalfield's permanent collection, as well as workspace for staff, and welcome facilities for visitors.

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Under construction

Office Building, Stampfenbachstrasse

Zurich, Switzerland

The load-bearing polished stone column that forms the centrepiece of Caruso St John's new office building on Stampfenbachstrasse in central Zurich was installed at the end of the 2024.

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Competition

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Bielefeld, Germany

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Caruso St John have been appointed architects for the renovation of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

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Planning permission

Apartment Buildings, Eggen

Luzern, Switzerland

Planning permission has been granted for the construction of two timber-framed apartment blocks on the outskirts of Lucerne.

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Caruso St John has won a RIBA International Award for its ‘innovative and joyful’ conversion of the Veemgebouw in Eindhoven, which has transformed the 1940s Philips electrical company warehouse into a modern mixed-use urban building.

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Under construction

Office Building, Stampfenbachstrasse
Natural Stone Facade

Zurich, Switzerland

Quarrying is underway for the Verde Spluga stone cladding for the principal façade of the new AXA office building on Stampfenbachstrasse in central Zurich.

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Royale Belge has won a European Heritage / Europa Nostra Award for Conservation and Adaptive Reuse. Overseen by the European Commission in partnership with Europa Nostra, the awards celebrate and promote the highest standards in heritage interventions, research, and education, training and awareness-raising, as well the longstanding dedication of professionals and volunteers.

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Planning permission

Durolux Building, Cham

Zurich

Planning permission has been granted for the renovation of a listed 1950s industrial building in the centre of the town of Cham on the banks of Lake Zug. The building will be converted into flexible workspace as part of the redevelopment of the Papieri-Areal industrial site.

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Planning permission

Gutstrasse Cooperative Housing

Zurich-Wiedikon

Planning permission has been granted for the construction of two new apartment blocks and a building for a kindergarten and administrative offices for housing cooperative BiG (Baugenossenschaft im Gut) in Zurich-Wiedikon.

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Competition

Thune Skøyen

Oslo

10th April 2024

Caruso St John have won first prize in an invited competition to redevelop the historic Thune industrial complex in Skøyen, Oslo. The plan for Thune will transform a series of factory buildings dating back to the 1890's into a mixed-use neighbourhood, with a programme that includes cultural, leisure, and retail facilities alongside office and coworking spaces, light-industrial workshops, and social housing.

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Planning permission

Düngerbau, Uetikon am See

Zurich

Planning permission has been granted for the conversion of a 19th century fertilizer factory at a former industrial site in Uetikon am See on the banks of Lake Zurich.

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Planning permission

Twentieth Century Theatre

London

Planning permission has been granted for the redevelopment of the Twentieth Century Theatre —a Grade II listed former music hall on Westbourne Grove in Notting Hill— into a new venue for classical music.

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Project update

New addition, Warehouse, Wiedikon

Zurich, Switzerland

The second floor of the Wiedikon Warehouse has been reorganised to welcome a new family member.

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Under construction

Office Building, Stampfenbachstrasse

Zurich, Switzerland

Construction has started on a new office building on Stampfenbachstrasse in central Zurich. The building, for multinational insurance company AXA, houses around 4,000 square meters of office space over seven floors.

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Opening

Royale Belge

Brussels, Belgium

28th June 2023

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The project for the renovation of the Royale Belge in Brussels has now completed. An opening event was held on 28th June, hosted by Mix – a new venue encompassing a hotel, restaurant, gym and co-working space. The food hall and terrace on the ground floor has also opened, creating a new destination for the Watermaal-Bosvoorde area of Brussels. The project’s diverse functions are brought together by the new hall and staircase which creates a new centrepiece for the iconic building.

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Planning application

Düngerbau, Uetikon am See

Zurich, Switzerland

Caruso St John has submitted a planning application for the conversion of a 19th century fertilizer factory at a former industrial site in Uetikon am See on the banks of Lake Zurich.

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Project update

Office Building Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Caruso St John has received the building permit for the AXA Office building, located on Stampfenbachstrasse in central Zurich. The building for multinational insurance company AXA houses around 4,000 square meters of office space over seven floors.

Construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2023, with a façade mock-up already completed for quality control of the materials and joints.

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