Basel 2025

Today I showed the VitraHaus to Rainer. It was a rainy day, perfect for a visit and I love this house and wanted to show it to Rainer.

The Vitra House, or VitraHaus, in Weil am Rhein is a modern building in the deconstructivist style, designed by the architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. It was completed and opened in March 2010.

The building serves as an exhibition and presentation space for Vitra, the manufacturer and retailer of home and office furniture, in the form of a flagship store, as well as a shop, studio, and café.

The ground floor of this building houses a café and a shop, as well as two studios: the Eames Lounge Atelier for leather armchairs (Eames Lounge Chair) and an Interior Studio. Several showrooms featuring Vitra designer furniture are spread across four additional upper floors.

The building is approximately 57 meters long, 54 meters wide, and 21 meters high, making it taller than the other buildings on the Vitra Campus. The twelve individual structures – using the classic “Urhaus” as a basic model – appear like houses randomly stacked on top of one another, forming the entire building on five levels.

The individual structures extend up to 15 meters apart. Almost all of these structures are fully glazed at the front. The floor slabs of each structure cut into the roof area of ​​the level below. The open center on the ground floor is a wood-planked plaza, from which one reaches the foyer with a shop and café.

It's an amazing architecture and you have the feeling that this house never "ends".

This is DEFINITELY a recommendation - if you are around, go there!Read more