An example of how art and architecture enrich one another in public space.
The residential and commercial building from the 1960s, located along the Basel–Milan railway line in Emmenbrücke, underwent extensive renovation. In an initial and complex collaboration with Lussi & Halter Architects in Lucerne, MAYO designed a highly visible, self-assured, and humorously cryptic sign reading “EMME” on the building’s front façade for this urban suburb of Lucerne.
When structural design and artistic expression are not understood as separate disciplines, an expanded field of perception emerges. The mural becomes part of the city’s identity — and the building a visible bearer of that attitude.
Emmenbrücke, Lucerne, 1999
