{"id":344143,"date":"2010-02-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5476336"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:30:00","slug":"vitrahaus-a-building-with-a-view-and-a-view-and-a-view-and-a-view-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/344143","title":{"rendered":"Vitrahaus: A Building With a View, and a View, and a View, and a View [Architecture]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/vitrahaus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_vitrahaus.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Vitra, a Swiss furniture manufacturer, recently completed the Vitrahaus as a presentation space for their collection. Yes, that&#8217;s a real photograph. The building&#8217;s comprised of 12 stacked &#8220;houses,&#8221; and if you can believe it, the inside is no less stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Herzog and de Meuron, Vitrahaus&#8217;s large, house-shaped windows provide various views of the surrounding area during the day&mdash;it is located on the border of Germany and Switzerland, in the town of Weil am Rhein&mdash;but at night the focus flips, with the windows becoming glowing portals into which passersby can peer.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5476316,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The inside is clean and minimalist which lets Vitra&#8217;s colorful furniture take center stage. Each room has a touch screen, on which visitors can browse through Vitra&#8217;s catalog, learn more about particular pieces, or purchase furniture right there on the spot. High design <em>and<\/em> high tech.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5476321,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5108146\/workbay-chair-helps-keep-annoying-workmates-at-bay\">oogled some of the company&#8217;s chairs<\/a> before, but I must say I&#8217;d rather be standing in the Vitrahaus than sitting in a Vitra.<\/p>\n<p>DesignBoom, who headed out to Vitra&#8217;s campus to take these photographs, has plenty more information and pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/9\/view\/9208\/herzog-and-de-meuron-vitrahaus-exterior.html\">exterior<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/9\/view\/9212\/herzog-and-de-meuron-vitrahaus-interior.html\">interior<\/a> on their site. 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Designed by Herzog and de Meuron, Vitrahaus&#8217;s large, house-shaped windows provide various views of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}