E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten

Profile of E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten, headquartered in Switzerland. Seven projects submitted by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: [L-R] Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert – © Tom Haller

Principals

Piet Eckert
Wim Eckert

Brief description

E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten practices architecture and urban design. The office was founded in 2001 and is led by the brothers Piet and Wim Eckert. Currently the practice employs 30 architects working on 15 projects.

E2A conceives architectural and urban projects as an interdisciplinary process, as a multiple authorship. The conceptual development is a synthesis of an analytic perception of the context and a hypothetical, programmatic approach - outlining an interpretation of the contemporary living conditions.

Early key projects were Nouvelle Destination for the Swiss National Exhibition expo.02 (2002), the Broëlberg Housing Estate in Kilchberg (2003), the Terrace Housing in Meilen near Zurich (2005) and the Triangle House in Winterthur (2008).

Since 2001, E2A has entered competitions and studies successfully. Subsequently, a number of public projects have been realized: The Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin (2008), the Center for Hearing and Language in Zurich (2008) and the Sports Facilities Juchhof in Zurich (2007).The School Centre in Opfikon and the Auditorium in Staefa will be completed in 2010.

E2A also received much attention for several international competition entries: This includes the new Natural History Museum St. Gallen (2nd prize, 2009), the European Patent Office in The Hague (final round, 2004) and the the extension of the World Trade Organization in Geneva (1st prize, 2002).

Recent and current projects represent a change to a larger scale. E2A was awarded with the first prize for the Masterplan for the Escher Wyss Areal, the largest industrial area in Zurich. Current projects are: the 60 m high-rise apartment building Escher-Terrassen, which will incorporate apartments and the rehearsal stages of the Zurich Opera, a housing complex with 150 apartments and a production hall for high-tech devices.

Projects of E2A have been published in monographs as well as in numerous magazines and books. 2009 the fifth monograph Serien 2004-09 was released. In 2008 E2A’s work was shown in the solo exhibition The Ideal Context, at the Architektur Galerie Berlin, followed by Fractions of Reality at the Cultural Center in Belgrade in 2009 and Serien 2004-09 at the Architekturgalerie am Weissenhof in Stuttgart, Germany.

Published projects

: Centre for Hearing and Language by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten The park-like site is dominated by a authoritative old school building from the early twentieth century that has had many extensions added. The original...

: Triangle House by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten To densify a lot with an additional building is not an uncommon operation. Is goes back to the rules of heritage, to organize further buildings on a site in...

: Sports Facilities Juchhof by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten Thirteen football fields over 1500 meters in length are set alongside the motorway and the railway tracks. The new infrastructure served as a training facility...

: Marina Tiefenbrunnen by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten E2A's proposal for a new water sport center at Zurich's lakefront has been selected to be elaborated further in a masterplan. The proposal focuses on:...

: Kunsthaus Zurich by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten The new Kunsthaus forms an urban threshold between the existing Kunsthaus Zurich and Zurich's university district. The new building's core is a naturally lit...

: Heinrich Böll Foundation by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90 - Die Grünen (Green Party) and is committed to promoting democratic...

: GSC House by E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten The 50% steepness of the site and the existing precious panorama has generated a wide range of terrace variations in the neighborhood. To be outside means to...

Key projects

2010 - Library and Auditorium, CH-Staefa
2010 - Competence Centre and Day School, CH-Glattbrugg-Opfikon
2009 - Natural History Museum, CH-St.Gallen, competition 2nd prize
2009 - Marina Tiefenbrunnen, CH-Zurich, study 1st prize
2008 - Kunsthaus Zürich, CH-Zurich, international selective competition
2008 - Heinrich Boell Foundation, D-Berlin
2008 - Centre for Hearing and Language, CH-Zurich
2008 - Triangle House, CH-Winterthur
2007 - Sports Facilities Juchhof, CH-Zurich-Altstetten

Industry affiliations

Swiss Association of Architects / Bund Schweizer Architekten BSA
Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects SIA / Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein SIA
Architectural Association Berlin / Architektenkammer Berlin