Barozzi Veiga creates trapezoidal riverside arcade for Zürich dance centre

Barozzi Veiga has completed the Tanzhaus dance centre in Zürich, which opens onto a promenade along the river Limmat with a concrete arcade of trapezoid openings.
Barozzi Veiga  designed the building to replace an existing structure that originally housed the Tanzhaus and the Swiss Textile School, which was destroyed by a fire in 2012.The architect won a competition to create the dance school's new home in 2014 with a two-storey structure that steps down sloping the river bank.
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