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Lido Mythenquai
Restaurant
Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Status: competition project
Client: Amt für Hochbauten, Zürich
Landscape architect: Maurus Schifferli, Bern
Engineer: Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann
Collaborators: Yuu César Barreyre
The restaurant stands in a park at the shore of Lake Zurich. It is only open in summer. In winter it is closed. The outer skin is made of a 15 cm single concrete shell - like the cloth of a tent. Primary forms are reminiscent of children drawings or a circus. The building is light and heavy, physical, precise and slutty - strangely beautiful amongst the scattered old trees.