Architecture in Basel — Christ & Gantenbein's brick volumes at the Kunstmuseum, Herzog & de Meuron's hometown experiments, Buchner Bründler's residential interiors, and a civic culture funded by pharmaceutical capital and held together by the Rhine. The Swiss border city where art-fair urgency meets quiet precision.
Brick on the Rhine, pharma-funded culture, fair-week urgency. A small city read at full volume.