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Smolenicky & Partner Architecture

Smolenicky & Partner
Architektur GmbH
Sihlstrasse 59
CH-8001 Zürich

Tel: +41 (0) 44 210 21 21
Fax: +41 (0) 44 210 41 41
info(a)smolenicky-architektur.com

Smolenicky & Partner is an internationally active architect's office from Zurich with various projects in the areas architecture and interior design. Smolenicky & Partner offers services in the areas of general planning, architecture and interior design from the first concept up to complex large-scale projects on highest level.

Joseph Smolenicky, born 1960, grown up in Berne, Switzerland, studied architecture at the ETH Zürich and established 1992 his own architecture office.

Projectlist

Tamina Therme, Bad Ragaz
Golf Sempachersee, Hildisrieden
Museum IWC, Schaffhausen
New offices Eschborn Plaza, Germany
Accenture Campus Kronberg, Germany
Accenture Swiss headquarters, Zurich
Hotel Kurpark Engelberg, Switzerland
Golf Kyburg, Winterthur
Restaurant and café "Più" Zurich Paradeplatz
"Sport" bar, Zurich
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, competition

Restaurant "Kornhauskeller", Bern
"Casino" Theater, Winterthur
Coiffeur "Zelo" Zürich
Bar and café "Strozzi's" Zurich
"Fidelio 2" fashion store, Zürich
"Fidelio 1" fashion store, Zürich
Bar and Restaurant "Central" Zurich
Novartis, Workplace Design and interior architecture, Basel, competition
Theilerplatz, urban space design, Zug
Summer bar "Sylt", Unterer Letten, Zurich
"Ice Cream Gallery" Mövenpick (Nestlé) Zurich
Flughafen Frankfurt, Underground Shopping Mall

Projects

Golf Sempachersee, Switzerland

Areal planning - New building Golf Club
New maintenance building - Enlargement reception building

The expansion of the Golf Sempachersee to include a second 18-hole course has made it the largest golf club in Switzerland.
This new manifestation is moulded on the one hand out of the country character of the golfing culture of the Sempachersee course, and on the other out of its worldly sophistication. To this end the appearance oscillates between the rural warmth of a timber barn and the clear lines of a Maserati sports car.

Total building floor area: 4,500 m2
Investment sum: CHF 10 million
Museum IWC, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

New watch museum, boutique, main entrance area in the historic building of the IWC. The museum consists of two wings:

West wing: company history and watches 1868 - 1950, animated multimedia presentation of the company's history.

East wing: watches and product families 1950 until today. Highly intricate watches and individual pieces, boutique, middle area with new reception and watchmaker's workshop for public viewing.
Tamina thermal baths, Bad Ragaz Switzerland

Urban development and areal planing Grand Resort Bad Ragaz
New building Tamina Thermal baths

Thermal baths building with bathing hall, large sauna area, shops and restaurant. Aesthetic alteration of existing open-air baths to new building.

Opening July 2009
Planning area entire complex: 90,000 m2
Thermal baths building volume: 41'656 m3
Overall investment volume: CHF 160 million
Site costs Thermal baths: CHF 41 Mio
Accenture Swiss headquarters

Interior fixtures for two floors of the historic post-office building close to the Paradeplatz in Zurich. Creation of library-like offices, prestigious conference rooms and a staff cafeteria. Widest-ranging office typology in accordance with Accenture Workplace Model.

Prestigious interior architecture with hotel character, including first-class services.

Office floor area: 1,500 m2
Interior fixtures: c. CHF 3.5 million
New offices Eschborn Plaza, Eschborn, Germany

Interior fixtures for two 13-storey high-rise office blocks with a joint conference area. Up-market standard of interior fixtures for the common staff and client areas.
Spatially expansive reception hall, two flexible auditoriums, staff cafeteria and cultivated conference level, lift lobbies, designed corridors to the office areas. Modularly conceived office storeys with individual offices and open interior zones. Standard of internal fixtures approximate to that of a modern five star hotel.

Floor area: 31,000 m2
Interior fixtures: ca. EUR 40 million

Leaseholder: Ernst & Young, Germany
Hotel Kurpark, Engelberg, Switzerland

The site for the new four-star hotel directly adjoins the health-resort park next to the Hotel Europe. The strategy consisted of planning the new hotel as a planning layout ensemble with the existing hotel.

The major motif of the new Hotel Kurpark is the five-and-a-half-meter high balcony. Each room possesses such a unique balcony, which take the breath-taking verticality of the surrounding mountain landscape as a theme and make them almost bodily experienceable.

A contemporary interpretation of the grand hotel is created.

Closed competition, 1st price
Accenture Campus Kronberg, Taunus, Germany

Campus complex consisting of two office buildings and a conference complex set in a park landscape with unique views over the city of Frankfurt. The complex is a model of campus functions.

Business and administration building
Floor area: 20,000 m2
Interior fittings: c. EUR 20 million

Accenture Campus Kronberg
Campus Kronberg 1
D-614676, Kronberg im Taunus, Germany
Golf Kyburg

Areal planning
New restaurant building
Enlargement of the existing club house

Overall investment volume: CHF 8 Mio

Golf Kyburg
CH-8310 Kemptthal
(for G&S)
Restaurant and café "Più", Zurich, Switzerland

Restaurant, Café, Bar
Planning and realisation
Investment volume: CHF 2.6 Mio

The intensity of the views through the glass cube is controlled by the curtains, which are room-high. Depending on the chosen combination, textiles with various layerings and transparency allow only so much to appear as to excite the curiosity of the passer-by whilst simultaneously preventing the private sphere of the customer. (for G&S)
Casino Theater, Winterthur

Theatre, banquett hall, restaurant, Winterthur (CH)
Planning and realisation
Investment volume CHF 12.5 Mio

In seinem räumlichen Ausdruck soll das Haus eine klare ordnende Handschrift haben und dabei Hintergrund für die verschiedensten Ereignisse sein. In dieser Ordnung sind alle Räume Teil eines Ganzen und definieren so das Casino als kulturelle Institution. (für G+S) (english translation soon)

Casino Theater
Stadthausstr. 119
8400 Winterthur
"Sport" bar, Zurich, Switzerland

Bar and Café Zurich
Planning and realisation

The spatial idea for the sports bar originated with the fact that one sits or stands in a café or a bar, and that each of these situations be given its own spatial quality. Especially for those sitting, it is not particularly comfortable to be in the immediate vicinity of a bar counter or to have other guests standing close by. This consideration created the idea of horizontally layered spaces. Each relevant height was to leave a spatial-design trace as strips and fixtures on the wall. (for G+S)
Coiffeur Zelo

Der farbige Kontrast zwischen Stadt und Innenraum ist, zusammen mit der Werbewirkung, das eigentliche Wesen des Objektes. Seine einfache, aber plakative Farbigkeit erzeugt eine ähnliche Wirkung wie die grossen Leuchtreklamen, die in der Nacht die Stadt verzaubern. In diesem Fall wird der Raum selbst zur Reklame. (english translation soon)

Wahl zum "Schönsten Coiffeursalon Europas"

Coiffeur ZELO
Seefeldstrasse 182
8008 Zürich
Restaurant "Kornhauskeller" Berne

Restaurant with wine cellar, two clubs with bar, cigar lounge, Berne
Planning and realisation
Investment volume 2.3 Mio

Alle Eingriffe respektieren die historischen Elemente des Raumes nicht nur aus einer denkmalschützerischen Konvention, sondern auch im Vertrauen auf die Aktualität ihrer zeitlosen, sinnlichen und räumlichen Präsenz. Es entsteht ein Raum von sakraler Dimension, mit den hölzernen Galerien in den Seitenschiffen und gewaltigem Weinfass im Fokus der Hauptachse. Auszeichnung "Schönster Restaurantausbau der Schweiz" Hochparterre & SF DRS (english translation soon)
Bar and café "Strozzi's", Zurich, Switzerland

The project for the ground floor of an existing building basically consists of two over-dimensional pieces of furniture. These two pieces - a 12-metre-long sofa and a 9-meter-long bar counter - play around the orthogonality and narrowness of the small space. (for G+S)

Ristorante Strozzi's
Seefeldstr. 187
CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
Fidelio 2

Fashion store Paradeplatz Zurich
Investment volume CHF 900'000

Fidelio 2
Nüschelerstrasse 30
8001 Zürich

(for G+S)
Bar and Restaurant "Central" Zurich

Bar and Restaurant "Central"
Ankerstrasse 65
8004 Zürich/ZH

(for G+S)