Christ & Gantenbein completes "Lindt Home of Chocolate" for Swiss chocolatier

2020-09-14T13:20:00-04:00

Swiss architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein has completed the new "Lindt Home of Chocolate" for Lindt & Sprüngli, the Swiss chocolatier founded in 1845. The new facility is located near Lake Zurich on the outskirts of Zurich and includes a factory, warehouses, an office building, and the new gateway to the Lindt Home of Chocolate, which is operated by the Lindt Chocolate Competence Foundation.

Moreover, the new Home of Chocolate features an interactive exhibition about chocolate, a research and development facility "for the future of chocolate recipes," a production plant, a chocolate shop, a cafe, and offices, all of which are interconnected by spiral stairways and dynamic walkways that span through an expansive atrium space.

The architecture sits as a simple industrial box. The facade consists primarily of red brick, playing off of the aesthetic of its surroundings. At the south-eastern corner is a cut-out that creates an imposing void to add a level of complexity and character to...

Carlo Ratti Associati designs a delicious building made of chocolate

2017-10-18T20:09:00-04:00

Attention chocolate lovers, Italian designer Carlo Ratti has conceived an edible pavilion made of pralines.

Image by Daniele Iodice

Made for the high-end chocolate manufacturer Venchi, the building will be presented at Fico Eataly, the world largest food park in Bologna, Italy. The structure is composed of 30 thousand pralines of different sizes and shapes, all individually wrapped in a variety of colors of shiny paper. The dream doesn't end here, visitors are invited to pick and taste the pralines, slowly eating the building away…

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Christ & Gantenbein completes "Lindt Home of Chocolate" for Swiss chocolatier

Carlo Ratti Associati designs a delicious building made of chocolate