Between 18 September and 1 October, Braillard is hosting and supporting several highlights centred on Geneva’s built heritage, for professional and academic audiences.
18 and 19 September – Two days with the Obersee association
In association with atourslakegeneva.com, the Obersee architects’ association is discovering Geneva over two days.
On Friday 18 September, from 14:00 to 17:30, the tour crosses the Old Town: the Maison Tavel and its model of the medieval city, the Manège en Ville (Estar Architectes, 2021), the premises of the Fondation Braillard, the Parc des Bastions and its Reformation Wall, followed by Uni Dufour (W. Francesco, G. Paux & J. Vicari, 1975), the Plaine de Plainpalais (Atelier Descombes Rampini SA & Carlos López Architectes, 2018) and the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (Graber Pulver Architekten AG, 2014).
On Saturday 19 September, from 08:30 to 16:00, the visit turns to twentieth-century architecture: the Cité du Lignon (Georges Addor, 1971), the covered railway cutting at Saint-Jean (Bonnet Bosson Vaucher, 1995) and its library (BLSA, 2001), Maurice Braillard’s Maison Ronde (1928), the Quai du Seujet (Addor, Julliard and Bolliger, 1976), the Jonction eco-district (Dreier Frenzel Architectes, 2018; Lacroix Chessex Architectes, 2021) and the Le Plaza cinema (Marc Saugey, 1953), where the renovation by FdMP architectes is visited while work is in progress.
22 September – Cerutti Architectes at the Salève Cable Car
The Geneva architecture practice Cerutti is welcomed from 16:00 to 17:30 for a visit to the Salève Cable Car.
1 October – University session with the Master in Territorial Development
As part of the University of Geneva’s Master in Territorial Development, Lisa Levy devotes a class, from 14:00 to 16:00, to Maurice Braillard’s Master Plan and zoning plan.
