Barozzi Veiga has completed the Tanzhaus dance centre in Zürich, which opens onto a promenade along the river Limmat with a concrete arcade of trapezoid openings.
Barozzi Veiga  designed the building to replace an existing structure that originally housed the Tanzhaus and the Swiss Textile School, which was destroyed by a fire in 2012.

The architect won a competition to create the dance school's new home in 2014 with a two-storey structure that steps down sloping the river bank.
"The project aimed to reactivate the promenade along the river, transforming and redefining the previous residential conditions of the location," said the studio.
"In this way, the building is defined as a simple and tiered volume of space integrated into the slope and barely noticeable from the outside."
The private teaching spaces of Tanzhaus are housed on the upper floor, while a double-height public performance spaces and a triple-height auditorium occupy the lower level.
An elongated foyer runs alongside the river, accessed through the "permeable facade" of the trapezoidal arcade, infilled with glazing and accessed via a metal door in one of its openings.

"The choice of the trapezoidal form is the result of a transformation of the traditional orthogonal system of pillars, beams and rectangular openings," said the studio.
"Indeed, the repetition of this shape and the use of a performing insulated concrete allowed for a continuous structural faca...