Fondation Beyeler: Piano 1997 to Zumthor 2026
Peter Zumthor’s June 2026 extension scheme for the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen is the first time another Pritzker laureate has been asked to expand a Renzo Piano museum. The handoff is unusually clean: Renzo Piano won the Pritzker in 1998, the year after his Beyeler building opened; Peter Zumthor won it in 2009; and the two now share the same six-hectare park on the Swiss-German border. The Fondation Beyeler is one of the small set of post-war private museums whose architecture is as legible as its collection, and the 2026 commission turns it into a two-author site without removing anything that already exists. ...