Espaces Contemporains
Our image of brutalist icon La Tulipe (The Tulip) in Geneva is featured in the November 2023 issue of Espaces Contemporains Magazine
20 buildings to (re)discover in Geneva
The Brutalist movement is still very much in fashion. If you love the rough-and-ready CICG (1973) by Alberto Camenzind, André and François Gaillard, apart from its outer shell, you shouldn’t miss Jack V. Bertoli’s Tulip from the mid 1970’s. A striking concrete and glass flower that symbolises structure while reflecting the beauty and fragility of the plant, it is typical of the movement’s “principle of architectural transparency”. A map of brutalism in Switzerland is available on heartbrut.com
