Christ & Gantenbein

Christ & Gantenbein is an international practice dedicated to the broad realm of architecture. Founded in 1998 by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the office employs a team of 100 architects from 20 countries. The firm's most prominent completed projects include the expansion and transformation of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich and the extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel, both cultural landmarks with a global reach. In recent years, the office completed the Lindt Home of Chocolate, a monumental yet versatile space for Lindt & Sprüngli in Zurich. In 2021, C&G completed the Multifunctional Workspace Building for Roche in Germany, representing a new interpretation of contemporary collaboration. In 2023, the firm completed the New Aare Bridge, a modern infrastructure construction that also serves as a part of the city, as well as the Vaugirard Housing development in Paris and a housing and office building in the historic center of Hamburg in 2025. Since 2017, they have been developing the masterplan of the Wolf Areal in Basel, one of Switzerland’s biggest brownfields. Currently, the studio is working on a diverse range of projects across Europe. Among them is the extension of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, the extension for the MACBA in Barcelona or the Kunstmuseum Main Building Renovation in Basel, and the refurbishment of the Swiss National Library in Bern. Underscoring the diversity of scale and program the office operates in, the Zurich University Hospital project, which is currently in development, will transform an entire district of Switzerland's most populous city, giving healthcare and medical research an unrivaled new home.