Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed a new gallery to house the permanent collection of the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Set to open in June, the Schaudepot is Herzog & de Meuron's second building at the Vitra Campus ? the ever-growing headquarters of the Swiss furniture brand, which also features architecture by Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando and SANAA.
It will, for the first time, allow the Vitra Design Museum to create a permanent exhibition showcasing its vast collection, which includes over 7,000 pieces of furniture, and the estates of designers including Verner Panton, and Charles and Ray Eames.
It also provides a cafe and shop, along with a new entrance for museum visitors. The Schaudepot will, for the first time, allow the Vitra Design Museum to permanently exhibit its vast collection. Photograph by Julien Lanoo
Herzog & de Meuron's first building at the campus was the VitraHaus ? a spectacular furniture showroom comprising a vertical stack of five gabled blocks, mimicking the region's typical gabled houses.
In the same vein, Schaudepot looks like an oversized house, with brick walls and a symmetrical pitched roof.

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Frank Gehry completed the Vitra Design Museum in 1989. It was the first major public building on the campus, and includes 700 square metres of exhibition space across four ...