Photo Gallery: Emerging Technologies & Design in Europe (Summer 2004)
University of Kansas School of Architecture & Urban Design | Nils Gore and Shannon Criss, Professors

The photo gallery below documents a trip taken to Europe by a group of 9 KU architecture students and faculty in the summer of 2004. We traveled through northern Italy, Switzerland and southern Germany.

General

• Students in Action Click here to see random shots of students being alive and well in Europe.

• Porto Antico The main harbor in Genoa, revitalized for the Columbian Exhibition in 1992.
• Renzo Piano Exhibit at Porta Siberia An exhibit of the work of the important Genoese architect, Renzo Piano.
• General shots of Genoa Street scenes, cool buildings, details. Taken from all over Genoa.
• Walk down from the top of the mountain after a ride to the top of the Zecca-Righi funicular railway.
• Camogli and San Frutosso Monastery, a day trip we took by train, then boat, down the coast from Genoa.

• Duomo Roof Atop the Gothic Duomo of Milan.
• Il Sole 24 Ore New building in Milan by Renzo Piano.
• General shots of Milan Street Scenes, cool buildiongs, details.Taken from all over Milan.

• Hospital Pharmacy A building by Herzog & deMeuron.
• Schaulager Collection A buiding to house art, by Herzog & deMeuron.
• Beyeler Foundation An art museum by Renzo Piano.
• Signal Box, A building for the Swiss railway , by Herzog & deMeuron.
• Stade St. Jakob, A sports stadium by Herzog & deMeuron.

Luzern

• Kultur and Kongress Zentrum, a concert hall, by Jean Nouvel.
• Migros Store, a retail department store, by Dienr & Diener.

• Gasser Building Materials, A zero-energy lumberyard, by Andrea Ruedi.
• Shelter for Roman Ruins, by Peter Zumthor.
• Suransuns Footbridge, by Jurg Conzett (at Viamala)

Davos

• SportsZentrum, a sports training facility, by Gigon and Guyer.
• Kirchner Museum, an art museum, by Gigon and Guyer.

Vals

• Thermae Vals, a health spa and thermal bath, by Peter Zumthor

Sumvigt

• St. Benedict's, a small wooden chapel in the Alps, by Peter Zumthor

Zurich

• Sunny Woods, a zero-energy condominium project, by Beat Kaempfen
• ETH, the research university in Zurich.

Munich

• Five Courts (FunfHofe), a retail environment by Herzog deMeuron.
• Goetz Collection, a private art gallery, by Herzog deMeuron.
• Herz Jesu Kirche, a Catholic church, by Alimann Sattler Wappnet

Freiburg

• Fraunhofer Institute, a solar energy research center in Freiburg, Germany
• Low Energy Housing Complex.

Stuttgart

• Institute for Lightweight Structures, a research institute established by Frei Otto at University of Stuttgart.