Braillard visits

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days Geneva, the Braillard Architects Foundation is pleased to offer 4 guided tours of the Salève Cable Car. They are free of charge, but you will need to register online from 26 August, as places are limited (max. 25). Registration link Tours: Saturday 13 September: departure at 11am, […]

The Braillard Architects Foundation organised a screening of the documentary “Verticales Urbaines”, devoted to the visionary projects of Maurice Braillard, followed by a debate re-examining forms and densities through the prism of the ecological transition for the future of Geneva.   With Philippe MEIER Architect, Meier+associés architectes, Geneva; lecturer at HEPIA Mathias STOCKER Boltshauser Architekten, […]

MAURICE BRAILLARD – VERTICALES URBAINES Directed by: Aurélie Doutre Narration: Paul Marti, historian Production: Braillard Architects Foundation The European Heritage Days in 2020 gave rise to an original initiative: the presentation, on the premises of the Braillard Architects Foundation, of an exhibition dedicated to the unbuilt towers of Maurice Braillard. Today, the Foundation has the […]

Exhibition organised in the context of the www.journeesdupatrimoine.ch Visits commented by Paul Marti at the Braillard Architects Foundation Press article in the Geneva Tribune. Brochure to be downloaded here. Maurice Braillard – Urban verticals In its premises rearranged for the occasion, the Braillard Architects Foundation presented an exhibition of tower projects developed by the architect, […]

Article on the Maurice Braillard, urban verticals exhibition, which took place as part of the European Heritage Days 2020. Source: https://www.tdg.ch/braillard-et-ses-tours-restees-dans-les-nuages-824639025766

The Salève cable car: for a shared territory   Guided tour organised as part of the Heritage Days 2018.   Brochure Inaugurated in 1932, the Salève cable car was hailed as a technological and architectural avant-garde achievement. The result of a collaboration between a promoter from Haute-Savoie, engineers from Paris and Genava and the architect […]

WIPO, the power of ideas   Guided tour organised as part of the European Heritage Days 2017   PDF BROCHURE Programme:   Georg Bodenhausen 1 building Pierre Braillard, 1958-1960 Arpad Bogsch tower Pierre Braillard, 1974-1978 PCT building Favre & Guth, renovation 2000-2003 New building Behnisch Architekten, 2008-2011 WIPO conference hall Behnisch Architekten, 2011-2014

Towards new green porosities   From Palais Wilson to Place des Nations   Brochure of the guided tour Programme   Square Château Banquet Maurice, Pierre and Charles Braillard (buildings), Bernard Muller (landscape architecture), 1953-1957 Hanging garden, rue des Garages Pierre Deléamont, Maurice Braillard and Louis Vial, Peyrot & Bourrit, Jean Calometti, 1912-1932 Square Foyer Sécheron […]