Florian Voemel Architekten AG (Zürich)

Since the founding of the office in 1990, our main focus has been on providing competent advice and support to clients during the realization of a building project.

Our concern is to carefully integrate our buildings into the given environment. In doing so, we prefer a simple and clear language of forms. In close cooperation with our clients, we seek individual solutions, taking into account the location and topography, visibility and sunlight. We attach great importance to a high quality of space in form and effect, a harmonious combination of colors and materials and expert detailed solutions. Ecological aspects and sustainable building are important to us in the construction and selection of building materials.

Consulting, feasibility studies Study commissions, competitions Project planning, execution Construction management (site management, schedule and cost control) Building estimates Interior architecture

His heart beats for skyscrapers. Florian Voemel talks about the view from his former apartment in the Los Angeles Skyscraper: From its windows on the twentieth floor, the city took shape every morning at dawn and aged anew every day, until at night the skyline consisted only of the lights in the other skyscrapers, slowly climbing from top to bottom, tracing the path of the cleaning crews.
In Los Angeles, Voemel designed vertical cities eighty stories high, then back in Zurich, miniature landscapes of rooms instead of street squares. But the impetus has remained the same: "I look for the greatest possible densification in every approach, even in a single-family house."

[Quote Anna Schindler, lic. phil. geographer, cultural journalist]

Publications 0000.00 Casa Expo - The individual house (PDF) 2011.01 20 Minuten - Will high-rise buildings soon also be built on Lake Zurich? (PDF) 2011.01 Tages-Anzeiger - Lake view for all - thanks to high-rise buildings (PDF) 2010.11 Tages-Anzeiger - I am fascinated by high-rise buildings (PDF) 2010.03 Tages - High-rise project vanishes into thin air (PDF) 2009.05 Neue Zürcher Zeitung - Three original lofts, built on coal (PDF) 2004.02 Das Einfamilienhaus - House of the year 2003 1st rank (PDF) 2003.02 The single-family house - House of the year 2002 1st rank (PDF)