Year: 1968

High School (Kantonschule)

The façade of this school is dominated by vertical exposed concrete elements, which are arranged in varying intervals based on Corbusier’s Modulor (Glaus worked for Le Corbusier in 1937).

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)

The Architecture Faculty designed by Balkrishna Doshi is part of the lively tropical campus of the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology. The building is elevated from the ground and situated in a beautiful green landscape. The Faculty’s ma…

Alexandra and Ainsworth Road Estate

The structure effectively blocks off the noise from the adjoining railroad tracks, with the apartments opening up on the other side to a footpath. The building transforms the traditional British terrace houses and was an alternative to the residential t…

Split 3

The project is a highrise residential building complex with a pedestrian boulevard and an adjacent office/shop building row (2–3 stories). The complex is part of Split 3 city expansion. Today it is a a popular residential area. (Special thanks to …

Congress Center Thermenkongress

After its heyday around the turn of the century, Bad Gastein tried to fight decades of decline with this congress center. It is perched spectacularly on a steep slope and contrasts the surrounding buildings with its functionalist exposed concrete design…

Bakkaflöt 1 House

Angular volumes structure the design of this flat building. The minimalist, introverted architecture is mainly rendered in exposed concrete and glass. on the outside. On the inside these materials are continued and combined with wood and iron.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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