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Finding a spatial form for people to live together – that is our profession and our vocation. Regardless of whether this requires buildings or guiding principles, whether it's about building entrances or neighbourhoods, about repair or vision – the creation of places is always at the centre. Place is experienced space – appropriated, charged with meaning, filled with good prospects. Architecture is timeless and contemporary at the same time. Today, being contemporary means achieving a better quality of life with less consumption. This is what we are working on.

SERA – Studio Esch Rickenbacher Architektur emerged from Esch Sintzel Architekten in 2024. 

1st prize 01/2026

Housing Complex St. Antonius-Stiftung 

Selective project competition, 2025. 

5th prize 01/2026

Housing Complex Riehenring

Selective project competition, 2024. 

Event 19.03.26

Gestaltung des Wandels, Wandel der Gestaltung 

Lecture by Philipp Esch at Architekturforum Freiburg (GER). 

Open House Basel 2026
Event 09.05.26

Open House Basel

The «irides» residential, care and retirement centre of Stiftung Blindenheim Basel can be visited within Open House Basel.

Project 02/2026

Areal Gleis 11

Study commission, 2025. 

1st prize 12/2025

Renovation and Expansion Bündner Naturmuseum 

In working partnership with Studio Noun. 

Selective project competition, 2025. 

Project 11/2025

Apartment and Commercial
Building Stellwerk 2

Ground-breaking ceremony. 

Winterthur, since 2019.

Award 11/2025

Bautenprämierung 2025 

«irides» residential, care and retirement centre in Basel is among the projects awarded by Heimatschutz Basel.

Project 11/2025

Areal Hänggiturm, 

Kartoni-Quarter

Ground-breaking ceremony. 

Ennetbühls, Glarus, since 2022.

Teaching 09/2025

Semestre autunnale 2025

Accademia di architettura, USI Mendrisio. 

Publication 09/2025

Mitten im Leben

Article by Andrea Eschbach on the «irides» residential, care and retirement centre in Basel. 

espazium.ch. 

Team 06/2025

Office Trip to Rome

26–29 June 2025. 

On our office trip this year, we explored the historic centre as well as the newer districts of Garbatella and Testaccio in the ‘eternal city’. 

Project 07/2025

Regensbergbrücke High-Rise

Start of design stage. 

Zürich-Oerlikon, since 2024.