After seven months of construction, the landing stage awaits its travellers. Thank you to the Transport Department of the Canton of Valais.

Guest professors Ramun Capaul and Gordian Blumenthal invite Catherine Gay to hold a lecture on our project for the Grand Hotel du Cervin as part of their studio "Alp hotel" at the EPFL. Due to the health crisis of the Covid -19, this is the first GayMenzel lecture recording made available to students.

The Atelier Cottbus is the third studio in a series devoted to the "Hinterland", which no longer exists. Until recently, the "Hinterland" occupied an important place in the dichotomy between the city and the territory, providing the former with resources. Structural change and globalisation have often rendered this close local link obsolete. The city of Cottbus in East Germany, the former "energy capital" of the former GDR, is today a shrinking city. The unpopular prefabricated housing estates on the outskirts of Cottbus are experiencing increasing vacancies. They are gradually being demolished, while urban wasteland is scattered throughout the city centre. The studio will take up Cottbus's development guideline of the "green city of parks" and test the potential of an inner-city landscape to convey a new urban quality: build less and plant more.

The magazine Archithese publishes a small contribution by GayMenzel about the circle in its December issue dedicated to this seductive geometrical figure. More information

Drawing: «Hut and kitchen of Mousgoum woman, Cameroun», Giovanella Formica & Beppe Caturegli, Footprints - Ichnographia, Milano, 2017

Catherine Gay Menzel will be speaking as part of the series "un dîner avec."

The 2019 congress of the architectural journal Detail is dedicated to the so-called countryside - its urban development, the danger of rural suburbanisation and the need to defend a culture of the built environment in order to strengthen and preserve its intrinsic qualities.

Götz Menzel reports from the small town of St-Maurice, which, thanks to favourable circumstances, has been enjoying a museum night for more than a year now. Since the opening of the Oblique Gallery in the Maisons Duc in 2018, a joint event has brought together different venues to shape a new cultural identity, including the ContreContre space and those of the Castle and Abbey of St-Maurice. This new dynamic of the city is a phenomenon resulting both from the will of the Municipality and from individual initiatives. More information

Haus der Wirtschaft, Willi-Bleicher-Strasse 19, Stuttgart
From 10.00 am

The Swiss Federal Office of Culture invited the architectural offices Lukas Baumann, Capaul & Blumenthal and GayMenzel to a competion for the restoration of an early 14th-century house in Steinen, Canton Schwyz. Our project was not selected.

The Housing Cooperative Zurich celebrates its 100th anniversary. On this occasion a variety of projects can be experienced in person from September 28th to 29th. As a kick-off to these visits, Open House Zurich and Andreas Ruby, director of the Swiss Architecture Museum, invited the following offices to talk about contemporary housing schemes: Arrhov Frick Arkitektkontor, Stockholm, Dreier Frenzel Architecture, Lausanne, GayMenzel, Monthey, Urbz, Mumbai/Geneva, LACOL Arquitectura Cooperativa, Barcelona, Heide & von Beckerath, Berlin, BHSF, Zurich, Atelier Kempe Thill, Rotterdam, Éo toutes architectures, Bordeaux, Kosmos, Moscow/Basel.

Götz Menzel will make call for mixity in Switzerland's zoning plans by taking Seoul’s Seunsangga Complex as a case study. More info on the event here.

Photography by GayMenzel

45 students of the Joint Master of Architecture design and build a festival enclosure on the site of the Grandes-Rames on the banks of the Sarine in Fribourg. Bleachers, a belvedere, a sunset. On June 21st, the day of the summer solstice, a pagan festival and the day of the Fête de la Musique, the site is transformed into a marvellous environment, born of a Shakespearean dream, and ready to welcome the electronic music collective Studio 1157. In the role of Quince, carpenter and director in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Götz Menzel, François Esquivié and Romain Legros.