novartis campus basel (basel, switzerland)

 

 

Novartis is a Swiss pharmaceutical company based in Basel. They run a gated research campus in Basel open to third parties for residence. The campus hosts a number of buildings by big-name architects that make it a worthy stop (that you can end with a cocktail in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed cafe overlooking the Rhine).

Our first stop was the Novartis Pavilion (2022) by AMDL Circle & Michele De Lucchi. 

 

 

 Next up was Forum 3 by Diener & Diener Architekten, Gerold Wiederin, and Helmut Federle:

60-meter-tall mural “Structure of Life” by artist Claudia Comte inspired by the helix structure of DNA:

A latter-day (2008) Gehry!

 

 

 

Richard Serra sculpture:

Tandao Ando (2010):

 

 Herzog & de Meuron (2015)