In the Monthey Hospital parking lot, Switzerland’s largest glacial erratic activates by its geological relevance, its crucial part in the History of nature conservancy, and its symbolic value for the city, collective memories on multiple scales. Our project summons this narrative depth to restore the boulder, its elevated garden and its vineyard pavilion, as a timeless fragment resonating with its territory.

To celebrate the completion of the renovation of the ground-floor, the Municipality of Monthey is holding a garden party in the château’s previously inaccessible garden.

Our project wins the competition for the transformation and expansion of the Oberaletschhütte above the Oberaletschgletscher, a UNESCO world heritage site. Distinguished by its modesty and integration within the landscape, it proposes an enlargement of the existing volume by homothety, in accordance with the cabin’s historical development.

Casa Nova opens its doors after a year of work. The former post office is now connected to the Médiathèque and transformed into a welcoming space that houses the cultural services of the city of Monthey. Reused elements and new materials blend together in this new place, deeply infused with memory.

As part of the competition for new water features in the Doret garden in Vevey, the attitude of conservation and amplification that we are adopting towards the existing water basin is being extended to the banks of Lake Geneva. Delta, beach and reed bed are the result of a process of going back in time, offering the city a new richness in its relationship with the lake.

GayMenzel and the municipality of Saint-Maurice have been awarded a Distinction Romande d'Architecture for the Maisons Duc project in Saint-Maurice. The DRA (Distinction Romande d'Architecture) is an architecture prize awarded only every 4 years for the best projects in French-speaking Switzerland, focusing on the links between the projects and their social and environmental context. Out of more than 300 submissions, 17 were nominated, with 6 winning awards from the jury. GayMenzel would like to thank the multidisciplinary and international jury for this distinction.

Photography by Samuel Zeller

After 7 years of reflection, planning and construction work, the Grand Hotel du Cervin is officially opened. GayMenzel transformed and renovated the building of 1893, which is now landmarked. Genoud Architects built the Cervin Baths under the esplanade for the Commune of St-Luc. Book your double or six-person room in the new Val d'Anniviers Youth Hostel here.

The leisure hall opens in the commercial zone of Collombey-Muraz in the Valais. More images soon

Nous sommes enchantés de pouvoir réaliser la transformation de cette crèche occupant un bâtiment des années 1950.

En février de cette année nous étions ravis d’avoir été sélectionnés parmi des candidats internationaux et de pouvoir réfléchir sur la rénovation, la réorganisation et la mise aux normes du bâtiment d’art contemporain (BAC) de Genève. Notre proposition, développée en collaboration avec AFF Architekten (Berlin/Lausanne) et l’artiste Karsten Födinger, n’a pas été retenue à l’issue de la phase une, ainsi que celles des bureaux 6a Architects et Caruso St-John. La phase 2 se jouait entre les trois bureaux Kosmos / Architecten Inge Vinck Jan de Vylder, Made In et Kuehn Malvezzi. Ce dernier est le lauréat.

Installation of the footbridge conceived of in UHPC with a span of fifty metres.