David Chipperfield Architects   London

The new Kunsthaus Zürich extension expands the existing Kunsthaus museum, situated between the Grossmünster church and the university. The Kunsthaus Zürich now represents the largest art museum in Switzerland, comprising four buildings from different eras – the Moser building dating 1910, the Pfister building dating 1958, the Müller building dating 1976 and the Chipperfield extension dating 2020. The new freestanding building houses the collection of classic modernism, the Bührle collection, temporary exhibitions and art from 1960 onwards.

Based on the ​“Central Campus” masterplan published in 2007, the museum buildings and the Schauspielhaus theatre located on the east side of the urban square Heimplatz, form a ​“gateway to the arts” as an urban entry to the ​“education mile”. Here, the large freestanding buildings of Zurich’s universities are lined up like a string of pearls leading northwards.