架构师提供的文本描述。当今世界几乎从来没有被两股敌对势力所支配。创新和舒适是很少重合的两个条件。相反，它们相互对立，在我们今天的生活中，在这个社会，特别是在瑞士，它们代表着一场经常被低估的冲突。

Text description provided by the architects. Today’s world is dominated as virtually never before by two antagonistic forces. Innovation and comfort are two conditions that seldom coincide. Rather they work against each other and in our life today, in this society and especially in the Swiss context they represent a conflict that is frequently underestimated.

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虽然创新在很大程度上取决于技术，因此相信它在任何时候对我们来说都是不引人注目的，但舒适的方面被视为标准，作为现状，也有可能代表一种想象中的安逸感，是对已经取得的成果的保障。

Whereas innovation rests to a large extent on technology, and therefore on the belief that it is unobtrusively there for us at all times, the aspect of comfort is seen as the standard, as the status quo, and also potentially stands for an imagined sense of ease, for a safeguarding of what has already been achieved.

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(扬·斯泰特)

创新所处的环境和特定的形式往往会侵蚀连续性的观念及其标准。因此，在瑞士对可持续性的理解中，充分性作为创新的第三个支柱，除了效率和效力之外，可能是最不受欢迎的标准。

The circumstances of and particular form taken by innovation often erode the idea of continuity and its standard. For this reason in the Swiss understanding of sustainability, sufficiency, as a third pillar of innovation alongside efficiency and effectiveness, is probably the most unpopular criterion.

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现在和以前一样，如果我们想在未来享受同样的可能性的话，把事情降到仅仅足够的程度，就会被道德上的必要性所强调。与这一做法不同的是，正是在这方面，可能会遗漏的可能性可能与参与和施加影响的概念联系在一起，换言之，这是一种责任，这可能是一种乐趣。

Now as before, reducing things to the merely adequate is underlined by an ethically moralising necessity, if we want to enjoy the same possibilities in the future. Alien to this approach is the idea that precisely here the possibility of leaving out could be associated with the notion of participation and the exercising of influence, with a responsibility, in other words, that could be fun.

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公开和直接解决这一对立是我们规划扩展到恩斯特·巴斯勒公司总部的出发点。

Tackling this antagonism openly and directly was our point of departure in planning the extension to the company headquarters of ernst basler ag.

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苏黎世市中心Mühlebachstrasse上的建筑物墙对墙。在城市规划方面，他们形成了来自不同时代的一系列不同的建筑。通过获得总括建筑，时代的结合在利用上也得到了补充。在庭院一侧，设想一座与老建筑完全一致的建筑。设想作为一个大窗口，一个视野将打开隐藏的内部城市花园的毗邻的地块。

The buildings on Mühlebachstrasse in the centre of Zurich stand wall to wall. In terms of town planning, they form a chain of diverse buildings from different eras. Through the acquisition of the concluding head building, the union of epochs is complemented in terms of utilisation as well. On the courtyard side a structure is envisaged that will align precisely with the old building. Conceived of as a large window, a view will open up of the hidden inner-city garden of the adjoining plot.

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新的建筑面积将扩大现有的建筑面积，并以向外扩张的姿态打开旧建筑。秩序，调节“前面”因此将被平衡的一个新的自由在院子里。

The new volume will expand the existing floor area and open up the old building with an expansive gesture towards the outside. The ordering, regulating “front” will thus be counterbalanced by a new freedom in the courtyard.

Architects E2A

Location Mühlebachstrasse 17, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland

Category Office Buildings

Project Year 2013

Photographs Jan Bitter