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Winterthur has undergone a structural change during the last decades from an industrial workingclass town to an attractive urban agglomeration. The architectonic face of the city has meanwhile changed as well. The building of the Archhöfe played an important part in this, closing off the station square at its southern end and thereby taking up an attractive inner-city location. The eye-catching monolithic building combines shopping center, service sector and residential development under one tentshaped roof. This makes the Archhöfe an impressive example of multifunctional architecture as well as a construction successfully planned and incorporated into a grown urban surrounding. The book presents the project in plans and pictures, an essay by architecture critic Hubertus Adam and further documentations. Its beginnings date back to a competition in 2003, when BDE Architekten, who secured the project back then, were still an up-and-coming team. Today, ten years later, they have grown to be a renowned architectural office.Founded in 2002 by Philipp Brunnschweiler, Matthias Denzler and Oliver Erb. Amadeus Dorsch joined BDE Architekten as a partner in 2010. Their projects include the rectory Steinhausen (2005) and the parish hall Wiesendangen (2007) which received the architecture award for the region Winterthur among others. At the moment they are working on several projects, among them the bus depot Grüzefeld in Winterthur, the residential and retail development Schlossberg in Baden as well as residential buildings at the lake in Arbon and in Winterthur.Published by Verlag Niggli, Switzerland.