Volumen
Architectural facade
Architecture Studio, Zurich

Spaces That Hold Culture

We design museums, libraries, and cultural institutions — architecture that amplifies public life and collective memory.

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Selected Work

Projects

2016 — Present
Kunsthaus Extension
Museum
Kunsthaus Extension
Zurich, Switzerland — 2024
Tallinn Central Library
Library
Tallinn Central Library
Tallinn, Estonia — 2022
Musée des Confluences
Museum
Musée des Confluences
Lyon, France — 2021
Berlin Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
Cultural
Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
Berlin, Germany — 2020
Oslo Cultural Centre
Cultural Centre
Oslo Cultural Centre
Oslo, Norway — 2019

Our Approach

Architecture
begins with
listening

Every institution carries a public mandate — to gather, to preserve, to provoke. We begin not with form but with purpose: the rituals of arrival, the rhythm of galleries, the quality of silence in a reading room. Our buildings emerge from the intersection of civic ambition and structural honesty.

We work with concrete, glass, and copper — materials that age alongside the communities they serve. Each project is a conversation between landscape, program, and the lived experience of the people who inhabit it.

"A museum should feel like it has always been there — inevitable, grounded, patient."

Anna Keller, Founding Partner

Interior concrete space

Kunsthaus Extension — Interior, 2024

In Progress
Copper Cladding

We don't design containers.
We design instruments for
public life.

Recognition

Awards & Press

2024 Riba International Prize Kunsthaus Extension
2023 Mies van der Rohe Award — Shortlist Tallinn Central Library
2023 Swiss Art Award — Architecture Volumen Studio
2022 Dezeen Award — Cultural Building Musée des Confluences
2022 Aga Khan Award — Nominee Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
2021 BSI Swiss Architectural Award Oslo Cultural Centre
2021 Archdaily Building of the Year Oslo Cultural Centre
2020 European Heritage Award Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
2020 World Architecture Festival — Shortlist Musée des Confluences
2019 Detail Prize — Interior Kunsthaus Extension
2024 Riba International Prize Kunsthaus Extension
2023 Mies van der Rohe Award — Shortlist Tallinn Central Library
2023 Swiss Art Award — Architecture Volumen Studio
2022 Dezeen Award — Cultural Building Musée des Confluences
2022 Aga Khan Award — Nominee Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
2021 BSI Swiss Architectural Award Oslo Cultural Centre
2021 Archdaily Building of the Year Oslo Cultural Centre
2020 European Heritage Award Philharmonic Garden Pavilion
2020 World Architecture Festival — Shortlist Musée des Confluences
2019 Detail Prize — Interior Kunsthaus Extension

Publications

El Croquis

Issue 214 — Monograph

Architectural Review

Featured — March 2023

Domus

Cover Story — January 2022

Bauwelt

Special Edition — 2021

Detail

Concrete & Public Space

The New York Times

Best Architecture 2024

Contact

Let's build
something
together

Studio
Räffelstrasse 25
8045 Zurich, Switzerland
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Volumen Studio, Zurich