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Working concept — Est. 1993
BOÖTES COLLECTIVES — WORKING CONCEPT — EST. 1993 — HONG KONG / SWITZERLAND

Architecture, mobility, education, culture.

A practice of thinking

An evolving constellation of practices, programs and places working across design, international mobility, education and culture.

DESIGN / CONSULTING / ACADEMY / CULTURE / JOURNAL
HK 00:00:00 — ZRH 00:00:00
[ N°01 — THE COLLECTIVE ]

Boötes began as an architecture practice in 1993. Today, it is becoming a wider collective: a platform where design practice, mobility guidance, education, cultural spaces and interdisciplinary knowledge can meet. This platform does not only explain the structure. It publishes it, connects it and makes it visible.

[ N°02 — UNITS / PRACTICES ]
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( 01 / 06 )

Boötes Design

Architecture & Urban Design

A founding practice working across buildings, interiors, cities and long-term spatial thinking.

Live at bootes.design
VISIT SITE
( 02 / 06 )

Boötes Consulting

International Mobility & Education Pathways

Guidance across immigration, investment migration, relocation and cross-border education decisions.

Migrating to bootes.consulting
VISIT SITE
( 03 / 06 )

Boötes Academy

Design Education & Professional Learning

Programs, workshops and resources shaped by three decades of architectural practice.

Launching at bootes.academy
( 04 / 06 )

Culture Spaces

Places, Programs & Public Encounters

Future physical and cultural spaces where architecture, learning, exhibitions and community programs can meet.

Emerging Unit
( 05 / 06 )

Education Consulting

Learning Pathways & Advisory

A future advisory layer connecting international education, design learning and mobility decisions.

Emerging Unit
( 06 / 06 )

Journal / Index

Ideas, Projects, Events & Research

The editorial layer of bootes.com: a living archive of what the collective thinks, builds, teaches and hosts.

Platform Layer

A living index of practices, places and programs.

[ N°03 — INDEX / JOURNAL ]

A living index, not a corporate homepage.

bootes.com can become the place where the collective publishes work, ideas, programs, places and services across all units.

[01]
Project
Adaptive reuse and long-term spatial value

How architecture holds value when buildings are asked to last longer than their first brief.

[02]
Note
What mobility means beyond relocation

Movement as cultural fluency — not only crossing borders, but building a life between them.

[03]
Program
Design education for emerging practitioners

Learning shaped by practice — workshops, studios and resources from thirty years of work.

[04]
Place
Culture space as public interface

Physical rooms where exhibitions, learning and community programs meet the city.

[05]
Service
Integrated pathways: study, move, build, belong

One conversation across education, mobility and place — instead of fragmented advice.

[06]
Archive
Thirty years between Hong Kong and Switzerland

A growing record of projects, notes and encounters across two bases and one practice.

[ N°04 — HOW THE PLATFORM WORKS ]
Publish

Ideas, projects, programs, events and research.

Connect

Shared themes across design, mobility, education and culture.

Direct

Clear paths into the right unit, service or conversation.

Founded as a practice. Expanding as a collective.

PB
Peter Böelsterli
// Architect — Founder, Boötes

Founded by Peter Böelsterli in 1993, Boötes grew from architectural practice into a wider field of work across places, people, education and international movement.

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How We Think

// Principles that hold across the collective — practice, platform and place.

A
Long-term spatial thinking
Buildings, cities and programs designed to hold value beyond their first use.
B
Cross-cultural fluency
Work that moves naturally between Hong Kong, Switzerland and the systems in between.
C
Education through practice
Learning grounded in three decades of making — not theory alone.
D
Integrated services
Design, mobility, education and culture as connected paths, not isolated offerings.
E
Public and cultural exchange
Spaces and programs that open the collective to people beyond clients and students.
[ N°05 — GEOGRAPHY ]

Between Hong Kong and Switzerland.

Two bases, one evolving platform for work that moves between cultures, disciplines and scales.

[ 01 — EAST ]

Hong Kong

Room 3, 3/F, Cheong Tai Commercial Building,
No. 60–66 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

[ 02 — WEST ]

Switzerland

Boötes AG
Wabernstrasse 91
3007 Bern, Switzerland

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Let's Talk

// A project, a pathway, a partnership — or a conversation about the collective.

Boötes Collectives is a working concept for this platform — not a final legal name. Unit-specific work continues through each practice.