Overview

Faced with questions about how to adapt and reuse a former industrial site in the center of town, an international insurance corporation, together with the Swiss city of Winterthur, held a competition among architecture and design firms to come up with an innovative, effective plan. The winning firm was the Vienna-based Architekt Krischanitz, and their submission, Superblock, is a striking idea given a brilliant execution: it combines a large workshop where diesel engines were assembled with newly constructed yet visually complementary buildings. This book details the project from concept to completion, using numerous photographs, plans, and visualizations to trace the history of the site, the genesis and development of the Superblock concept, and the revitalization of the neighborhood that it is expected to lead.

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Hans-Peter Bartschi, born 1950, studied architecture and did a PhD in economic history at ETH Zurich. He lives and works as a freelance publicist and researcher on industrial culture and heritage in Winterthur. Adolf Krischanitz, born 1946, was a cofounder of Missing Link architectural cooperative in 1970 before establishing his own firm in Vienna in 1979. He was a Visiting Professor at Technische Universitat Munchen 1988-89 and a Professor for Design and Urban Regeneration at University of the Arts Berlin 1992-2011. Axel Simon, born 1966, graduated in architecture and has been an editor with Hochparterre architecture and design magazine in Zurich since 2010.

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