The Vitra Campus is a magnet for design and architecture enthusiasts. There is hardly any other place in the world where so many icons of contemporary architecture can be found. Zaha Hadid realized her first ever building here with the fire station in 1993, and the American architect Frank Gehry his first building in Europe in 1989. The VitraHaus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron in 2010, offers a panoramic view of all three states in the border triangle. The Vitra Schaudepot, also built by Herzog & de Meuron, was created in 2016 as a venue for temporary presentations of the Vitra Design Museum's spectacular collection. There are also other buildings by famous architects. For example, the conference pavilion by Tadao Ando, a geodesic dome by Richard Buckminster Fuller, a petrol station by Jean Prouvé, production halls by Nicholas Grimshaw, Álvaro Siza and SANAA, a slide tower by artist Carsten Höller and a garden house by Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane. Daily guided tours explain the background to the designers and locations.
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