Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten

Image: Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, credit Stefano Graziani

Oliver Lütjens (Zurich 1972) and Thomas Padmanabhan (Stuttgart 1970) established Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects in 2007 in Zurich. The practice’s recent work focuses on housing in the residential districts surrounding Zurich and Basel including the award-winning low rent Waldmeisterweg apartment building in Zurich and the Zwhatt Sufficiency lighthouse project in Regensdorf.

Further afield, they are currently working on the new residence of the Swiss ambassador in Algiers and the new Swiss general consulate in Stuttgart. Oliver and Thomas have taught as assistants at ETH Zurich and as guest professors at TU Munich, EPF Lausanne and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.