Brutalist WHO headquarters extension under construction in Geneva

Visit the construction site of the ongoing extension project at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, designed by architects Berrel Berrel Kräutler; a project that places the landscape at the forefront, while paying tribute to the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters modernist, Jean Tschumi-designed, original office building. To reach the new addition of the WHO building in Geneva, visitors will need to cross through the entrance of the organisation’s existing, historic building at the end of Appia Avenue. The glazed entrance lobby of the original structure, defined by an intricate structural system on which the tall, pre-stressed concrete volume lies, is suggestive of the building’s modernist value and contributes to the dialogue between old and new. Surrounded by woodland and designed by Jean Tschumi, yet developed posthumously by Pierre Bonnard in 1966, the majestic WHO office building is now being refreshed with an extension by Swiss architecture firm Berrel Berrel Kräutler.