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Architekturbüro Garrigues Maurer - Friedhof am Hörnli Crematorium, Basel 2017. Photos © Rasmus Norlander.

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Going to the Sun Road • Glacier National Park • Montana

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tipperne bird sanctuary ~ johansen skovsted arkitekter | photos © rasmus norlander

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A Tour of the World in Photochromes

In the 1880s, Hans Jakob Schmid perfected a magnificent photographic colour printing process, called Photochrome. Starting from a black and white negative transferred onto as many lithographic stones as colours required in the final image, a subtly nuanced print was achieved at a time when colour photography was still only in its infancy.

At that time, Hans Jakob Schmid worked at the Orell Füssli Printing Company in Zurich, which took out a patent for this process in 1888 and founded the company Photoglob Zürich (P.Z.), with the express purpose of marketing the images in very varied formats, up to 40x50 cm, which enjoyed an immediate success and well beyond Switzerland’s borders. The First World War and the arrival on the market of the first colour photography processes sounded the knell of Photochrome.

The Swiss Camera Museum is displaying a sizeable collection of Photochromes, including large format views, sometimes panoramic, albums and various smaller collections, touristic pictures, which constituted a real invitation to travel across the world at the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries.

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Beer & Merz - Conversion of a 1879 house to apartments, Basil 2017. Photos © Mark Niedermann.

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office KGDVS - Center for traditional music, Riffa 2017. Via, photos © Bas Princen.

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Courthouse in Pátzcuaro

An oval stone wall encloses brick and timber volumes that offer varying levels of privacy and connection with the gardens at the centre of this courthouse in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, by Mauricio Rocha and Gabriela Carrillo.

The courthouse was designed by Rocha and Carrillo’s architecture studio in response to a requirement to update all of Mexico’s justice facilities so that oral trials open to the public can be conducted instead of the previous written process. In cater to the different requirements of this updated system, the architects developed a proposal for a building based around flexible spaces that can accommodate both the traditional and the new oral trial formats.