L’OMS In 2014, WHO launched an international competition for the extension of its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, built in 1966 by architect Jean Tschumi. To streamline operations, the choice was made to group activities on a single site by creating an extension to the existing building.

The extension's siting strategy leaves unobstructed views to and from the landscape overlooking Lake Geneva.

Partially buried, the building is conceived as a programmatic mass from which the breaths necessary for the blossoming of the senses have been extracted in the form of patios and wide overhangs overlooking the distance.

The project asserts its contemporary character. The structuralist grid of Tschumi's building is matched by an abstract grid of mirrors reflecting the landscape and the image of the past.