Show Fullscreen Source: David Chipperfield Architects Berlin Twelve years after he won the design competition, David Chipperfield has completed a new building for Zurich’s Kunsthaus, making it Switzerland’s biggest art museum. The 21m tall freestanding building, with three storeys above ground and two below, is almost twice the height of the original museum building which it faces across a square in the old town. Together the two buildings – which are linked by a subterranean passage not unlike Chipperfield’s 2018 route linking two buildings at the Royal Academy in London – define this square, said the architect. The square, Heimplatz, is known locally as the Peacock, a moniker adopted by a group that successfully campaigned to have Chipperfield’s proposals shrunk, using Switzerland’s uber-democratic planning system.