Herzog & de Meuron

Based in Basel, Switzerland, Herzog & de Meuron is known for designs that are at once highly inventive and sensitive to the site, geography, and culture of the region for which the building is planned.  Among their critically acclaimed museum projects are the de Young Museum, in San Francisco (2005); the expansion of the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis (2005); Schaulager for the Laurenz Foundation, in Basel (2003); and the conversion of a power plant into Tate Modern, in London (2000), as well as the new development for Transforming Tate Modern (projected completion in 2012).  Among its many other widely-recognized projects is the “Bird’s Nest” Beijing National Stadium, site of the 2008 Olympics.  For their distinguished accomplishments, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001.

Together with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger is partner-in-charge of the new Miami Art Museum. She has been a partner in the firm of Herzog & de Meuron since 1994 and also led the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2005) and IKMZ BTU Cottbus, Information, Communications and Media Center, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany (2004), among other projects.