Herzog & De Meuron: architecture is not a machine

Jacques Herzog (right) and Pierre de Meuron at the opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. Keystone/Christian Charisius read aloud pause X The ambitions of the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron are sky-high and worldwide. An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London showed that their buildings also want to be healing. This content was published on January 20, 2024 – 10:00 Sabine von Fischer Herzog & de Meuron currently employ 600 people globally, 400 of them in Basel. But their buildings don't only mark the skyline in Basel. Fifteen years ago, in Peking, the office…