These are ‘The Best 2024’ – judged by Hochparterre.

Once again this year, Hochparterre has announced the “Gold, Silber und Bronze Hasen, das Kaninchen” – and for the first time the trophy for the Audience Award at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. The “Gold Hase” in Architecture went to the architectural firm Weyell Zipse for the Guggach school complex in Zurich. In the Design category, Basel-based designer Victoria Juretko won the gold award with her research project ‘Peva Speculum’. The Lausanne landscape architects from En-dehors won the “Gold Hase” for the transformation of the sewage treatment plant in Aproz VS. The “Kaninchen”, the Senn Award for young architecture, went to Nicolas de Courten for the Pièce urbaine C housing estate in Lausanne’s Plaines-du-loup eco-neighbourhood.

For the first time in the long history of ‘Der Besten’, an audience award was presented this year. In the architecture category, the Plaines-du-Loup residential building by Costea Missonnier Architectes in Lausanne’s Écoquartier of the same name won. Fashion designer Jacqueline Loekito received the most votes in the Design category for her ‘Earthlings’ collection. The intervention ‘Schwamm drüber’ by BÖE Studio won in the landscape architecture category.

And these are the honoured objects:

Architecture

Hase in Gold

Hase in Gold: Guggach school complex, Zurich by Weyell Zipse, Basel; client: City of Zurich; photo: Daisuke Hirabayashi

Hase in Silber

Hase in Silber: House in Zug, Zug by Stefan Wülser, Zurich; client: private; photo: Sven Högger

Hase in Bronze

Hase in Bronze: Sports centre, Daillens VD by Localarchitecture, Lausanne/Zurich; client: municipality of Daillens; photo: Alexander Jaquemet

Audience Award

Architecture Audience Award: Residential building Plaines-du-Loup; Costea Missonnier Architectes, Prilly VD

In the video, Hochparterre editor Palle Petersen explains why the award-winning projects in the architecture category deserve the bronze, silver and gold bunnies.

Design

Hase in Gold

Hase in Gold: ‘Peva Spekulum’; Victoria Juretko, Basel

Hase in Silber

Hase in Silber: Material development of MFC and processing methods; Ville Kokkonen, Murg SG/Arkio Industries, Helsinki; Photo: Julia Ishac

Hase in Bronze

Hase in Bronze: Capite’ timber façade system; Jeanne Reymond, Chardonne VD

Audience Award

Audience Award Design: Fashion collection ‘Earthlings’ by Jacqueline Loekito

Hochparterre editor Mirjam Rombach explains in the video why the award-winning projects in the Design category deserve the bronze, silver and gold bunnies.

Landscape architecture

Hase in Gold

Hase in Gold: Transformation of wastewater treatment plant, Aproz VS by En-dehors, Lausanne and Sion; client: municipality of Nendaz and town of Sion; photo: Matthieu Croizier

Hase in Silber

Hase in Silber: Reinforcement and extension of forest path, Carouge GE Apaar, Geneva; client: municipality of Carouge; photo: Timothé Beuret

Hase in Bronze

Hase in Bronze: Schoolyard Collège du Sud, Bulle FR by MG Associés, Vuissens FR; client: Gruyère Community Association, Canton of Fribourg; photo: Linus Bill

Audience Award

Landscape Architecture Audience Award: Intervention ‘Schwamm drüber!’ by BÖE Studio, Zurich, with Barbara Marie Hofmann

In the video, Hochparterre editor Maarit Ströbele explains why the award-winning projects in the landscape architecture category deserve the bronze, silver and gold bunnies.

Das Kaninchen – Senn Award for young architecture

Das Kaninchen – Senn Award for young architecture – Pièce urbaine C housing estate, Lausanne by Nicolas de Courten architectes, Lausanne; client: Fondation Lausannoise pour la Construction de Logements (FLCL), Société Coopérative d’Habitation Lausanne (SCHL), Fondation Pro Habitat Lausanne (FPHL); photo: Guillaume Perret