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In the current issue we show buildings that in terms of their function – a bank from the 1960s, a tram shed, an office building in a works yard, a school, an apartment building – could hardly be more different, while their locations also differ greatly – the inner city of Buenos Aires, the outskirts of Bern, the Zurich suburb of Niederglatt, Arbon on Lake Constance, and the city centre of Geneva. Yet despite these clearly very different circumstances we can still identify a characteristic that all these buildings have in common. They all manifest a strong interest in the structure, in all of them we encounter a load-bearing construction that is incisively formulated in architectural terms.