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BUILT
FOR THE
FUTUREPRESENT.

BUREAUAn architecture & built-form practice working at the intersection of mass, light and program.
SCALECivic. Cultural. Residential. Adaptive re-use. From 24m² to 24,000m².
METHODMaterial-first. Drawing-led. We model in concrete, not in clouds.
STATECurrently building in CH, DE, NO, JP. Selecting two new projects for 2027.

Index
2009 — 2026

047 PROJECTS / 12 AWARDS / 04 MONOGRAPHS
047Halberd Public LibraryCivic — LibraryHalberd, NO2026→
046Stein CrematoriumCivic — MemorialGraubünden, CH2026→
045Brick Works Adaptive ReuseIndustrial — CulturalBonn, DE2025→
044Forest School KomazawaEducationalTokyo, JP2025→
043House on a CliffResidential — SingleLago Maggiore, IT2024→
042Mass Transit Pavilion 04Civic — InfrastructureZürich, CH2024→
041Vintners' CooperativeIndustrial — WineWachau, AT2023→

Selected
Built Work

Six projects from the last 18 months. Each one a study in mass, light and program. Material samples and full drawing sets available on request.

P/047HALBERD · NO

Halberd Public
Library

CIVIC · 2026
P/046GRAUBÜNDEN

Stein

MEMORIAL
P/043IT

House on
a Cliff

2024
P/045BRICK WORKS · BONN

Adaptive
Re-use 1907

CULTURAL · 2025
P/044KOMAZAWA · JP

Forest School

EDUCATION
P/042ZÜRICH HB

Transit
Pavilion 04

INFRA
— Manifest 2026
§ 01

Architecture is the weight of decisions made visible.

We do not chase silhouettes. We do not render before we draw. Every project begins with a single section through the site, hand-cut at 1:50, and ends with a building that means what it says. We work slowly because buildings outlive us.

Concrete is not a style. It is a substrate for thinking about mass, time and the long shadow a building throws over the next hundred years. We are interested in what stays.

— H. KÖNIG / M. RIVERA-STEIN, partners
047
Built projects since 2009
12
International awards incl. Mies van der Rohe shortlist
38
Studio members across Zürich and Berlin offices
∞
Years a well-built wall outlasts its drawings