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Peaceful ... sheep grazing in Binningen, BL, with a view of Basel and its skyline dominated by the Roche towers

23.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Contemporary architecture in Basel, on Spitalstrasse - the street named in 1842 after the hospital complex developed in the area. Klinikum 1 (1945), Frauenklinik (2003), Kinderspital (2010), and Biozentrum (2021) are reflected in the bottle-green facade of the hospital pharmacy (1998).

17.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All the ten characters of this kinetic fountain are recycled / derived from objects that used to be part of the old theatre (demolished in 1975), the stage of which was located exactly where the fountain is now.

10.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Basel ticks differently ... its carnival / Fasnacht has started only today. Fasnacht Cortège and Gugge music now attract more attention than the otherwise most popular "Fasnacht Fountain" (Jean Tinguely, 1977). Undisturbed, its playful characters continue their performance ...

10.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Images taken during the exhibition "Gerhard Glück
Das einfache Leben" 16.11.2024–9.3.2025

09.03.2025 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starchitects Herzog & de Meuron's HQ have been in Basel ever since 1978; here one can also see some of their earliest projects, e.g., the Cartoon Museum (1996): comprising a centuries-old house facing the street and a new building in the back, it provides varied, delightful spatial experiences.

09.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Louise Lawler's work at the Kunstmuseum Basel - “3 Flags (swiped and taken) ...” - based on photograph of Jasper John's “Three Flags” (1958, Whitney Museum) and then digitally adjusted to fit the space in Basel - enters into a dialogue with the Kunstmuseum architecture (Christ & Gantenbein, 2016).

08.03.2025 19:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0