Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA

Name

Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA

Legal name

Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA

Website

https://nwarch.ch

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA (NW Architekten) is a Basel-based private Swiss architecture practice of 27 employees delivering building design services for research facilities, educational institutions, campus developments, and industrial/logistics projects in Northwestern Switzerland.

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GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

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Core offering

Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA is a Basel-based Swiss architecture practice providing integrated design services for research facilities, educational institutions, campus developments, and industrial/logistics buildings. The firm delivers full architectural services for institutional and corporate clients, supported by BSA and SIA professional memberships, with a multidisciplinary team of 27 employees.

Differentiator

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Products and services

• Architecture Design Services Full architectural design services delivered to institutional, educational, scientific, and corporate clients in Switzerland, covering research facilities, educational buildings, campus developments, and industrial/logistics projects.
• Research Facility Design Specialized architectural design for research and laboratory facilities, addressing the technical, infrastructural, and functional requirements of scientific and institutional research clients.
• Educational Building Design Architectural design services for educational institutions, including schools and higher-education facilities, delivered to institutional and public-sector clients.
• Campus Development Design Architectural master planning and design for campus-scale developments, coordinating multiple buildings, shared infrastructure, and long-term institutional growth strategies.
• Industrial and Logistics Building Design Architectural design services for industrial and logistics buildings, addressing operational, structural, and functional requirements of corporate and industrial clients.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• HPP Architekten: Large German architecture firm with deep experience in research, education, and administrative buildings. Overlaps directly with NW Architekten's institutional/research portfolio, but operates at much greater scale.
• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): Danish-headquartered global architecture firm with active research, education, and campus projects in Europe. Overlaps with NW Architekten's institutional brief but competes from a much larger, internationally branded platform.
• ATP architects engineers: Austria-headquartered integrated architecture and engineering firm active across Central Europe in research, education, and industrial buildings. Competes in the same institutional architectural space from a larger platform.
• David Chipperfield Architects: London-based international practice with a strong portfolio of cultural, institutional, and research buildings. Competes for the same high-prestige Swiss and European institutional commissions but operates globally and at much greater scale.
• Snøhetta: Norwegian-international architecture practice with a strong portfolio of research, education, and cultural buildings. Comparable in typology emphasis but significantly larger and more internationally diversified.

Direct peers

• Burckhardt+Partner: Swiss architecture firm headquartered in Basel with a similarly diversified institutional, research, and industrial project portfolio. Closely comparable in geography, scale orientation, and Swiss public-sector client base.
• EM2N Architekten: Zurich-based Swiss architecture practice working across education, research, and cultural buildings. Comparable in size band and in focus on technically demanding institutional commissions in the Swiss market.
• Behnisch Architekten: Stuttgart-based architecture firm known for sustainability-driven research and educational buildings (e.g., school and laboratory projects). Comparable in design philosophy and project typology mix.
• Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten: Austrian firm with a strong DACH-region practice across educational and campus projects. Comparable in typology emphasis and in serving public institutional clients in the Alpine region.
• Frei + Saarinen Architekten: Smaller Swiss architecture practice operating in the Basel/Zurich region across institutional and educational buildings. Comparable in scale and Swiss regional focus.

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