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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 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.

1st prize 04/2025

Apartment Buildings Wehntalerstrasse,
Zurich

Study commission, 2024. 

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. 

Project 07/2025

Regensbergbrücke High-Rise

Start of design stage. 

Zürich-Oerlikon, since 2024. 

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’. 

Publication 06/2025

Book Launch

Five Good Swiss Plans/ Fünf gute Schweizer Pläne, edited by Kate Finning & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Lucerne: Quart-Verlag, 2025. With a contribution by Philipp Esch. 

Publication 05/2025

New Masters & Old Houses

Article by Philipp Esch in the 1st edition of 6850, the new magazine edited by Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. 

Project 05/2025

Apartment Building Binzmühle- & Friesstrasse 

Start of construction works. 

Zürich-Oerlikon, since 2021. 

Project 05/2025

GISA Housing Scheme

Start of construction works. 

Zurich-Affoltern, since 2021, 
in working partnership with Masswerk Architekten. 

1st prize 03/2025

Papieri-Areal,
Construction Site B, Cham

Study commission, 2024. 

Publication 12/2024

Monograph Publication

«Esch Sintzel Architekten: Bauten und Projekte/ Buildings and Projects», edited by Martin Tschanz, Zurich: Park Books, 2024.