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A long-term Switzerland-wide study at the Future Cities Lab has found that neighbourhoods with numerous, well-arranged trees exhibit lower mortality risks than other areas. The reasons behind this will require further research.

ETH Zurich has fabricated the world’s tallest 3D-printed structure. With the construction of the White Tower in Mulegns, researchers hope to bring innovative technologies to commercial maturity.

Probably the most representative room at ETH Zurich was restored and renovated over a period of three years. Various internal and external experts were involved in the conservation work. 

A traveling exhibition at D-ARCH presents the research on open access carried out by ETH graduates Oliver Burch, Jakob Junghanss and Lukas Ryffel as part of the BSA scholarship.

The Chair of Affective Architectures of Professor An Fonteyne has collaborated during several semesters with ETH Real Estate. The design studio is rethinking the use of the existing buildings on the campuses.

In the committee, the co-founder of the architecture firm Lütjens Padmanabhan will be a member of the jury for the Swiss Art Awards.

Xu Tiantian from China, Al Borde from Ecuador, Heinrich Wolff and Ilze Wolff from South Africa, Valerio Olgiati from Switzerland and the studio Dogspike from Australia will talk about the topic “When matters become form”.

The Solskin façade system has been integrated in two research buildings and a house in the Alps. In Winterthur, architects are using the technology of the ETH Zurich spin-off in their designs for two new building projects.

At the ETH Zurich in the 1980s, the architect developed the consequential movement of "Analogue Architecture". Over almost 20 years lecturing at the ETH, Šik influenced a further generation of architects.

During the doctoral awards ceremony on 24 January 2025, Matthew Critchley, Rune Frandsen and Kam-Ming Mark Tam received a Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral theses.