Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has completed a museum for chocolate brand Lindt alongside its headquarters in the Swiss town of Kilchberg on Lake Zurich.
Built alongside Lindt's factories and corporate headquarters, Lindt Home of Chocolate contains a museum dedicated to the history of chocolate and the brand.
Christ & Gantenbein's Lindt Home of Chocolate. Top image: The museum's entrance 
Basel-based architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein designed the museum with a simple red brick exterior to match the surrounding historic factory buildings.
The entrance facade of the cuboid-shaped building, however, is clad in white glazed brick and shaped in a curve to create a focal point and public square.
Lindt Home of Chocolate is arranged around a large atrium "But the Lindt Home of Chocolate reacts with a cutout to form its entrance and a public space, so it doesn?t range in the purely utilitarian typology anymore," the studio told Dezeen.
"Through this curvature, it becomes somehow monumental," it added. "The gesture is emphasised by the change of material."
Circular balconies animate the space
Within the building, Christ & Gantenbein created a "playful" space to contrast the more utilitarian exterior.

"There is a certain contrast between its rather hermetic envelope and an open and playful interior," said the studio.
"The chocolate is implicitly celebrated with round shapes, a soft touch, and ma...