page_title: Anne Torcapel
section_title: Principal works
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Torcapel / Principal works
caption_attribution_description: English: Sight on château de Crans in Crans-près-Céligny near Nyon in Switzerland. Français&#160;: Vue sur le château de Crans à Crans-près-Céligny près de Nyon en Suisse.
context_page_description: Anne Torcapel was a Swiss architect. She undertook many projects in and around her native city of Geneva, including villas, apartment buildings, other structures and enlargements and conversions.
context_section_description: Anne Torcapel's work included at least 47 villas, 16 buildings, 10 other works and 30 transformations of existing buildings.
  She built for the elite families of Geneva and for the poorest, always with high quality.
  Evelyne Lang has proposed that Anne Torcapel's work exemplified a unique women's architectural design.
  1945-1948: renovations and transformations at the Taverne de la Madeleine (Geneva) - with Marie-Louise Leclerc
  1950-1956: enlargement of the Geneva maternity ward (west wing and polyclinic, making possible the presence of fathers during childbirth, destroyed in 2013) - with Marie-Louise Leclerc
  1951: annex and transformation to the La Rochette preventorium (Longirod) (converted building)
  1953: transformation of the nursery school Le Bon Secours (Geneva)
  1954: series of single-story villas with the engineer Lucien Duflon
  1955-1957: first villa of the writer Alix de Watteville (Cologny)
  1958: interior design of the Geneva Boutique of SAFFA 58 (Zurich)
  1959: second villa of the writer Alix de Watteville (Chêne-Bougeries)
  1959: wings, outbuilding, swimming pool and garden pavilion at Château de Chignan (Vernier)
  1960-1968: real estate complex on Krieg avenue and rue Pédro-Meylan (Geneva) - with Alfred Damay
  1961-1962: third villa of the writer Alix de Watteville (Cologny)
  1961-1962: social housing building for single women (quai des Vernets 5-7, Geneva)
  1962: "Le Clos des Sapins" holiday camp (Saint-Cergue)
  1962-1963: silo of Le Pallanterie and enlargement of the mills (Vésenaz)
  1962-1963: HLM buildings for the Protestant Parish (chemin François-Chavaz 3-5, Onex)
  1963-1964: Villa Bodmer
  1964: Villa Dottrens
  1964: Temple of Onex - with John Torcapel. Protestant church (Onex)
  1966: Villa Odier
  1968: residential building (rue Pédro-Meylan 2, Geneva)
  1970: underground gallery of the Martin Bodmer Foundation (Cologny, almost completely destroyed)
  1970-1972: Villa de Marignac
  1972-1974: HLM buildings for the Protestant Parish (Chancy Road 126-128, Onex)
  1978: transformation of the Château de Crans (Crans-près-Céligny)
  1978-1979: residential building (rue Pédro-Meylan 4, Geneva)
  1979-1980: Villa Schluep
  1979-1980: transformations at the Château Le Fief (Chéserex)
  1981-1982: social housing building for single women (avenue de Chamonix 5-7, Geneva)
  1986: Villa Aeschimann
caption: Château de Crans - Anne Torcapel  undertook the conversion
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