{"id":35885853,"date":"2021-08-27T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/en\/?p=35885853"},"modified":"2021-08-27T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:28:05","slug":"swiss-consulate-hhf-kwong-von-glinow-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/en\/swiss-consulate-hhf-kwong-von-glinow-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Consulate, HHF + Kwong Von Glinow, Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Swiss Consulate Chicago<\/strong> brings a domestic language to the office interior at the Hancock Tower. As a collaborative design project between Swiss Architecture office HHF<\/strong> and Chicago-based practice Kwong Von Glinow<\/strong>, we took inspiration from Swiss-born Architect Otto Kolb who taught in Chicago at Illinois Institute of Technology in the 1960s to link the two cultural architectural histories of Switzerland and Chicago. As such, Villa Kolb – the architect\u2019s primary residence – espoused organic geometry and fluidity in the home\u2019s architecture, allowing for a succession of spaces that flow between one another. Similarly, the Swiss Consulate Chicago is organized around a \u201cGreen heart\u201d at the center of the space where the staff gather together and from which all of the consular program is visible and accessible.<\/p>

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