NaturBornholm

NaturBornholm, located in Aakirkeby, is an interpretive centre on the Danish island of Bornholm. It is devoted to the geology and natural history of the island. It was inaugurated on 16 May 2000. The museum turned into designed by Henning Larsen. The building employs gabions. This technique, although originating in engineering, turned into popularized through Herzog and de Meuron in their design of the Domus Winery in Napa Valley. Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd., or Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH, is a Swiss architecture company with its head workplace in Basel, Switzerland.

The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron closely paralleled one another, with each attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. They are possibly high-quality recognised for his or her conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the brand new domestic of Tate Modern. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been travelling professors on the Harvard University Graduate School of Design due to the fact that 1994 and professors at ETH Zurich considering the fact that 1999.