Thomas C. Howard auditorium, exposition space, pavilion. housing, mixed-use development, office

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1 Basel1 Projects 31 Created 07-Apr-16 By jean-christophe Aguas, Paris, France Schaulager Basel, archive, atelier, exposition space Novartis Campus Novartis office Apartment building Bar Rouge Musuem Tinguely Vitra Fire Station Conference Pavilion 7 Vitra Design Museum Vitra Dome 14 Goetheanum 15 Vitrashop Factory Hall 16 Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters 17 Basel, atelier, office 8 Allschwilerstrasse Residential and Office Building 18 Basel, housing, mixed-use development, office 9 Suva House 19 Basel, housing, office 10 Spittelhof Housing Estate 20 Biel-Benken, Peter Zumthor housing, urban plan 11 Weil am Rhein, Germany Tadao Ando congress centre, meeting room, pavilion Weil am Rhein, Germany Alvaro Siza Vieira factory Basel, 6 Weil am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid s exposition space, fire station Central Signal Box 13 Dornach, Rudolf Steiner auditorium, culture, education Basel, Mario Botta museum 5 Basel, Morphing Systems bar, club Gas Station Weil am Rhein, Germany Thomas C Howard auditorium, exposition space, pavilion Basel, apartment, housing 4 Basel, Peter Märkli office Weil am Rhein, Germany Jean Prouvé gas station Basel, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani urban plan 3 VitraHaus 21 Weil am Rhein, Germany museum, shop, showroom 12 Weil am Rhein, Germany Gehry Partners Vitra Bus Stop 22 Weil am Rhein, Germany Jasper Morrison bus station 1

2 Novartis Campus - Forum 3 Basel, Diener & Diener education, office Signal Box Auf dem Wolf Railway Engine Depot Kinderspital Basel Südpark 25 Museum der Kulturen 29 St Jakob Turm 30 Volkshaus Brasserie & Bar 31 Basel, bar, restaurant 26 Messe Basel 32 Basel, commercial space, showroom 27 Basel, Stucki Hotel Basel, housing, office Basel, Stump & Schibli Architekten hospital 24 Basel, industry Basel, Diener & Diener hotel Basel, control centre 23 Heilig Kreuz Kirche 33 Chur, Walter Forderer church 28 Basel, museum 2

3 photo: Naomi Schiphorst photo: Naomi Schiphorst Schaulager Ruchfeldstrasse 19 CH-4142 Basel photo: Naomi Schiphorst The Schaulager ('viewing warehouse') is neither museum nor traditional warehouse It keeps the Emanuel Hoffmann collection in optimal condition and is primarily accessible for specialists: conservators, curators, researchers etc The heavy outer wall is built up in layers and its outer surface scratched, exposing the pebbles excavated on site This material is not only a visual expression of weight and storage but also, as a result of its great inertia, an essential factor in the interior climate control On one side the box is somewhat indented, creating a forecourt, so that the entrance side is visible from great distance It appears to be guarded by a small building with a gabled roof The courtyard-like space radiates urbanism and publicness Schaulager is thus not simply an anonymous box on the urban periphery, but rather a place that is active and self-confident, expanding the public dimension of the city of Basel to the south, towards the new district of Dreispitz/Münchenstein Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation Laurenz Foundation MI_MOA The building is ONLY OPEN for the public during exhibitions! Check the Schaulager website for info Tue, Wed, Fri noon 6 pm Thu noon 7 pm Sat, Sun 10 am 5 pm By tram: Take tram No 11, bound for Aesch, at the Swiss Railway Station SBB to "Schaulager" stop (approx 10 min) 3

4 photo: Andreina Schoeberlein photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Novartis Campus Fabrikstrasse 4 CH-4002 Basel Novartis is aiming to transform the St Johann site - its headquarters in Basel - from an industrial complex to a place of innovation, knowledge and encounter The new Campus should offer Novartis employees and visitors an environment for intensive levels of communication and work, which is ultra-modern, very functional and aesthetically pleasing The master plan on which all these changes are based is by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani The individual special buildings are to be designed and also realized by invited architects like Peter Märkli, Diener & Diener and Japanese office SANAA Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, whom Novartis commissioned to produce an overall plan for the St Johann project, is an architect with a practice in Milan and a chair in urban development history at the ETH in Zurich photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Project is not public! 2000 Urban planner Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Novartis Schweiz MI_MOA The campus and offices of Novartis are not open to the public, its like a forbidden city for architecture lovers Maybe you could get in with a tour from the Basel ure Museum but don' t count on it you can find the development-map here: downloads/about-novartis/visitorsmappdf The area is situated next to the river, just before (or after) the Dreirosenbrucke Coming from France: Motorway A35/E60 direction Basel, after customs enter left into the tunnel and follow the signs to Basel St Johann From EuroAirport Basel take Airport Express Bus PTT 50 to Kannenfeldplatz Change to Tram 1 (direction Dreirosenbrücke) stop Novartis Campus Across the street you find the main entrance to the Novartis Campus From Bahnhof Basel, also take tram 1, same way 4

5 photo: Goran Potkonjak photo: Goran Potkonjak Novartis office Fabrikstrasse 6 CH-4002 Basel Before the advent of modern scientific methods in chemistry and pharmacology, it was the alchemists who endeavoured to discover remedies for human ailments The office building Peter Märkli architekten designed for pharmaceutical giant Novartis Pharma recalls alchemy's other enterprise, its attempts to turn base metals into gold: or rather, Märkli has succeeded in maintaining that illusion The anodised aluminium of the loadbearing façades has been coated with a champagne-coloured paint and the air ducts that run across the roof are encased in gold-coloured aluminium sandwich board While such non-designed service elements are often an eyesore, here they look like costly treasures photo: Goran Potkonjak Project is not public! 2006 Peter Märkli Novartis Pharma Kirsten_Hannema The campus and offices of Novartis are not open to the public, its like a forbidden city for architecture lovers Maybe you could get in with a tour from the Basel ure Museum but don't count on it The campus is situated next to the river, just before (or after) the Dreirosenbrucke Coming from France: Motorway A35/E60 direction Basel, after customs enter left into the tunnel and follow the signs to Basel St Johann From EuroAirport Basel take Airport Express Bus PTT 50 to Kannenfeldplatz Change to Tram 1 (direction Dreirosenbrücke) stop Novartis Campus Across the street you find the main entrance to the Novartis Campus From Bahnhof Basel, also take tram 1, same way 5

6 photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Apartment building Schutzenmattstrasse Basel Sinuous cast-iron screens are used in the façade of this apartment building They resemble drain grilles This inventive use of unexpected but ordinary and readily available things is typical for the work of "Something mysterious is revealed in the normality of everyday life" photo: Marloes Faber Project is not public! 1993 unknown Marloes_Faber Close to the city centre There is a post office opposite the building 6

7 photo: Marloes Faber Bar Rouge Messeplatz 10 CH-4058 Basel The original Bar Rouge was designed for the Expo02 in at the beach in Yverdon-les-Bains The bar stood here from May 2002 until October that same year Since then, the bar has slept until it was reused in the Messe-tower, at the 31th floor From this spot you will have amazing views over Basel Owwwand you definitely have to visit the toilet, could tell you more: it is a great experience! photo: Marloes Faber Project is public! 2006 Interior architect Morphing Systems Bar Rouge Marloes_Faber Monday Wednesday 17:00 01:00u Thursday 17:00 02:00u Friday and Saturday 17:00 04:00 Sunday closed Messeplatz is easy to find, most of the trams are heading to this place 7

8 photo: Maarten Thewissen photo: Ryan Taube Musuem Tinguely Grenzacherstrasse Basel Jean Tinguely ( ) grew up in Basel and belonged to the Parisian avant-garde in the 1950s and 60s He stimulated and revolutionized the "static" art world with his kinetic works The Museum's permanent collections present a selection of the artist's machine sculptures, reliefs and drawings from all the periods of his career The Museum also offers a varied and lively programme of temporary shows devoted to Tinguely's fellow artists and contemporaries - Bernhard Luginbühl, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein - and to his models such as Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, as well as to related subjects such as contemporary kinetic art photo: Ryan Taube Project is public! Floor area/size m² Mario Botta F Hoffman-La Roche, Basel rtaube Tuesday - Sunday Mondays closed Tel: +41 (0) every Sunday there are guided tours: 1130 h (no booking necessary, cost: admission ticket) Main Rail Station SBB: Tram no 2 to Wettsteinplatz, switch to Bus no 31 Badischer Bahnhof: Bus no 36 Highway: exit Basel Wettstein 8

9 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Vitra Fire Station Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany Following a major fire in 1981, the company Vitra has pursued a conscious approach to its own architecture, starting with the commission awarded to the English architect Nicholas Grimshaw to build a new factory hall After completion of the first structure, he was assigned the task of developing a master plan for the Vitra grounds Now Vitra commissions a different architect for each building project, deliberately contrasting works of architecture confront one another and imbue the site with vitality and a distinctive identity The Fire Station is one of the highlights of the tour Long an icon of deconstructivist architecture, this was the first work ever to be realized by the master architect who is today entrusted with prestigious global commissions Constructed as a working firehouse within the Vitra furniture design and manufacturing complex, the building is now used by Vitra as a showplace for part of its permanent collection of chairs Project is public! 1994 Zaha Hadid s Vitra Design Museum Naomi photo: Wojtek Gurak Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Vitra offers guided architecture tours in numerous languages over the premises of the Vitra company's factory in Weil am Rhein, daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm Contact: info-weil@design-museumde or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 9

10 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Central Signal Box Münchensteinerstrasse Basel This is a railway utility building in Basel, near the Guterbahnhof Wolf called Signal Box and has an exterior cladding of copper strips that are twisted at certain places to admit daylight Herzog and De Meuron won the Pritzker prize in 2001, the jury explained: "The beginnings of most architects practices consists by necessity of small projects with budgets to match It is these early buildings with great constraints that test an architect s talent for original solutions to often ordinary and utilitarian commissions In the case of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the railroad signal box was such a project They transformed a nondescript structure in a railroad yard into a dramatic and artistic work of industrial architecture, captivating both by day and night" Project is not public! 1999 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB, Anlagen Management boeboe photo: Nazar Leskiw 10

11 photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak Conference Pavilion Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany Vitra, the German furniture manufacturer, has been collecting buildings by a variety of architects on their factory site near Basel They organize tours over the premises The starting point for the tour is Gehry's sculptural-expressionistic museum building, completed in the first of the California architect's buildings to be realised in Europe The Conference Pavilion by Japan's Tadao Ando was also a European premiere The introverted structure is visually impressive with its formal restraint and reduction to a few materials Most of the building is situated under ground The austere and elegantly proportioned conference pavilion is a deliberate contrast to the flamboyance of Gehry's neighboring design museum Along with the museum and Conference Pavilion, the Fire Station by London-based Zaha Hadid is one of the highlights of the tour Project is public! 1993 Tadao Ando Vitra Design Museum boeboe photo: Wojtek Gurak Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm The number of participants is limited There is no advance registration for public tours Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 11

12 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Wojtek Gurak Vitra Design Museum Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany The inception of the Vitra Design Museum dates back to the early 1980s With the aim of documenting the history of the Vitra company, Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum began collecting the furniture of designers who had influenced the company's development, such as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Alvar Aalto, and Jean Prouvé The design museum houses temporary exhibitions on themes of furniture design, and Gehry's building makes a suitable host for them - in keeping with the theme, but - once inside supporting, not competing with, the exhibitions As well as Frank Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid are all represented with separate buildings on the grounds of Vitra, in a cross between an industrial plant and a model village photo: Dirk Verwoerd Project is public! Gehry Partners Vitra Design Museum boeboe Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm The number of participants is limited There is no advance registration for public tours Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 12

13 photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Gas Station Charles-Eames-Straße 1 D Weil am Rhein Germany The station was designed to be portable so that the gas station placement could be modified This made it quite easy to ship it off to Vitra and rebuild it In 2003 Vitra incorporated it into their collection on the factory grounds near Basel Jean Prouvé (8 April March 1984) was a French architect and designer His main achievement was transferring the manufacturing technology from industry to the architecture, without losing the aesthetic qualities photo: Wojtek Gurak Project is public! 2003 Jean Prouvé Vitra Design Museum Naomi Monday through Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 8 pm Closed: December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the cafè have the same opening hours as the museum Guided tours are daily, at 12 pm and 2 pm, lasting two hours From February 23, 2008 daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm There is no advance registration for public tours Groups can make reservation Contact: A Gastel, info-weil@design-museumde, or call 0049 (0) Public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55, from the train station in Weil am Rhein it is about a 15-minute walk to the museum By car: The Vitra Design Museum can be reached from Freiburg (north) or Basel (south) via the Autobahn A5 (exit Weil am Rhein), from France/St Louis take the boarder crossing Palmrain From Lörrach/Riehen turn west at the marked junction "Weil am Rhein" just north of the Fondation Beyeler A big car park free of charge exists 13

14 photo: Timo Mecking photo: Timo Mecking Vitra Dome Charles-Eames-Strasse Weil am Rhein Germany The Charter-Sphere Dome, which was erected in 1954 in Detroit, has been transferred to the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in 2000 The Charter-Sphere dome is Thomas C Howard's signature design TC Howard started using the Charter-Sphere dome as the request became more demanding Charter-Spheres are easier to design and erect than the geodesic domes They are still abundantly seen around the world TC Howard designed most of the early geodesic domes that are thought to be Buckminster Fuller's The dome at the Vitra Campus is constructed as a lightweight structure with a membrane cover and is currently used as a space for events by the Vitra company photo: Wojtek Gurak Project is public! 1978 Thomas C Howard timo_mecking Monday through Sunday: / Wednesday: / Closed on December 24-25, December 31, January 1 The museum shop and the café have the same opening hours as the museum By public transportation (ÖPNV): From Basel (Claraplatz or Badischer Bahnhof) take bus number 55 until the bus stop Vitra From the train station in Weil am Rhein it is a 15-minute walk to the museum 14

15 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Goetheanum Rüttiweg Dornach The First Goetheanum was a wooden structure dating from 1919, which was destroyed by arson in 1922 On the site of the former structure, a new auditorium was built, wholly built of cast concrete This building became known as the Second Goetheanum, and is now simply referred to as the Goetheanum For its exterior, architect Rudolf Steiner achieved sculptural shapes on an architectural scale Besides housing an auditorium, the Goetheanum serves as the center of the worldwide Anthroposophical Society and the seat of the School of Spiritual Science With approximately visitors annually, nearly 200 conferences of varying sizes, and a diverse offering of cultural events, the Goetheanum is dedicated to serving the spirit of the time with a thoughtful, human-oriented approach that can respond to the manifold and pressing inner and outer questions of the day (text from website Goetheanum) photo: Stefan Stegemann Project is public! 1928 Rudolf Steiner archi_joost daily 15

16 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Vitrashop Factory Hall Charles-Eames-Strasse 2 D Weil am Rhein Germany This single-storey factory hall for Vitra has a footprint of over square metres With its clinker-brick façade, granite base and 4 metre-high windows, the building resembles a minimalist sculpture Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Alvaro Siza Vieira Vitra GmbH Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 16

17 photo: Marco de Trizio photo: Marco de Trizio Herzog & De Meuron Office Headquarters Rheinschanze Basel The office headquarters of Swiss architectural firm Herzog and De Meuron are located in Basel The complex is composed of various buildings, one of them a six-storey, glass volume looking towards the Rhine river An interesting detail is the original entrance: a small, simple, wooden door, typical of Basel Public access unknown! 2009 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco de Trizio 17

18 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Allschwilerstrasse Residential and Office Building Allschwilerstrasse Basel This is the first large building in Basel by The rectangular lot is slightly curved along its length, so the main façade follows this curve The building is located in an upscale residential area in Basel, not too far from the city centre Project is not public! 1988 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 18

19 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw Suva House St Jakobs-Strasse Basel This building was originally built in 1950 and was designed for offices Around 1990, integrated the building with a new addition, designed for residential use Both structures were encased in a glass skin on the street façades Project is not public! 1993 Marco_De_Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw 19

20 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Spittelhof Housing Estate Spittelhofstrasse Biel-Benken This project near Basel consists of two rows of terraced housing, with gardens on the south side A building with rental units, at the upper edge of the central green courtyard, contains five ground-floor flats for elderly people and ten apartments of different sizes on the two upper floors These all have separate access stairs and entrances from the canopied forecourt on the east side The floor plans of all three buildings were designed to provide light-filled living rooms and bedrooms lined up 'porch-like' along the façades photo: Jeroen Meijer Public access unknown! 1996 Peter Zumthor Basellandschaftliche Beamtenversicherungskasse jpmm 20

21 photo: Iwan Baan photo: Iwan Baan VitraHaus Charles-Eames-Strasse Weil am Rhein Germany A new building has been added to the Vitra Campus The VitraHaus lies in close proximity to the Swiss border and the furniture manufacture's Basel headquarters Here the Vitra Home Collection is shown The furnishings and objects are arranged in a variety of settings for both living and working: classics by Charles & Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouvé and Verner Panton are combined with contemporary designs by Maarten Van Severen, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Antonio Citterio, Hella Jongerius, Jasper Morrison and others With the VitraHaus, there is a sense of "homecoming" not only with regard to the architects, but also in the building concept Herzog & de Meuron make reference to the archetypal form of the gabled house, which is found in residential structures around the globe They have stretched this basic form and combined a series of "houses" in an intersecting stack photo: Iwan Baan Project is public! Supplier Sto Isoned Vitra Verwaltungs GmbH, Weil am Rhein, Germany MI_MOA The VitraHaus is open Monday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm Vitra Design Museum offers guided architectural tours of about 2 hours on the Vitra Campus Daily at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm Public transport: From Claraplatz or Badischer Bahnhof Basel, take bus 55 From EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, take bus 50 to the Basel SBB Railway Station, tram 2 to Badischer Bahnhof Basel, bus 55From the train station in Weil am Rhein, it is about a 15 min walk to the museum By car: From Germany and, take the A5 motorway, exit at Weil am Rhein, turn left, follow the signs for Vitra Design Museum From France, go to the Palmrain (D) border crossing, take E

22 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Vitra Bus Stop Römerstraße Weil am Rhein Germany The creation of the Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry in 1989 was a turning point in the history of the Vitra project and completed the transformation from a purely industrial site to a meeting place for cultural and commercial activities Over the next few years, new construction projects dared to experiment with architectural forms A conscious decision was made to select architects who normally would not have designed buildings in the Basle area, the aim being to create a site that drew not on regional sources that are now recognised around the world, but designs that stamped their distinctive character on the site through their foreign influences Jasper Morrison, a leading figure of "New Simplicity" a movement that advocated a more modest and also more serious approach to design designed in addition to furniture and accessories a tram system for the city of Hanover, and this project for Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein: a pair of discreet stainless steel bus stop shelters photo: Jeroen Meijer Project is public! 2006 Jasper Morrison Vitra jpmm By public transport: from Basel main station take the bus to the Vitra campus; By car: autobahn E35, take the exit Weil am Rhein and drive in the direction of the Vitra Design Museum 22

23 photo: Giovanni Bellinvia photo: Giovanni Bellinvia Novartis Campus - Forum 3 Fabrikstrasse 3 CH-4002 Basel Novartis Campus at Basel will be an international significant place of knowledge and innovation Roger Diener, Helmut Federle and Gerold Wiederin designed and realized the first building, the Forum 3 It is one of the aims of this project to foster communication, creativity and the commitment of the associates through an aesthetic and functional approach to the design of the working environment Both in the building interior and also in the outer spaces, a wide variety of working and meeting areas are being created-providing open, transparent, versatile and flexible spaces that offer plenty of scope for interaction and interdisciplinary teamwork Immensely large coloured glass panels dance almost weightlessly in several layers around the building, making it move, gleam and shimmer, responding to the light at particular times of day and in different weather conditions Inside are office landscapes whose solid elegance combines open-plan spaces with places of concentrated seclusion photo: Giovanni Bellinvia Project is not public! 2005 Main designer, Artist Diener & Diener Gerold Wiederin Helmut Federle Novartis archviews 23

24 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Signal Box Auf dem Wolf Walkeweg Basel An impressive monolith made out of concrete and wrapped in 20 cm wide strips of copper, this building includes six floors of workspaces where railway switches are controlled electronically By wrapping copper strips all around the building, a kind of a Faraday cage that protects the electronic equipment has been created This sculpture-like tower stands right next to Herzog & de Meuron's train depot and improves the urban quality of this previously nondescript industrial area Seen from the southwest, it provides an unexpected counterpoint to memorial stones of the nearby 19th c cemetery Wolfgottesacker Project is not public! 1994 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB DinaBM photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek From Dreispitz tram/bus stop go down Walkeweg, then take the first road on your left 24

25 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Railway Engine Depot Walkeweg Basel Train depot and service workshops housed in a 240 m long concrete building Elongated light prisms placed rhythmically along the roof (covered with plants originally found along railway tracks) bring light into spacious working halls Includes administration wing with a restaurant on top floor Together with the nearby switching tower, this complex has improved greatly the urban quality of the industrial area in the south-east part of Basel photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is not public! 1995 Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB DinaBM From Dreispitz tram/bus stop go down to Walkeweg, then take the first road on your left 25

26 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Kinderspital Basel Spitalstrasse Basel The new Children's Hospital draws attention because of its colourful façade that changes appearance depending on one's viewpoint This is possible because its glass panels are covered in layers of foil, which reflect light in different ways Punctuating the street façades are mesh-protected loggias that allow children to play "outside" All the patient rooms face a park-like courtyard; along the windows they have built-in benches that can be turned into beds for parents Hallways are wide and bright, their walls are covered in wood-like panels, tall slivers of back-lit photos depict scenes from Basel and include child-scaled figurines photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Stump & Schibli Architekten Universitäts-Kinderspital Beider Basel DinaBM Tram 11 to "Johanniterbrücke"; bus 30 to "Kinderspital UKBB" 26

27 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Tim Smits Südpark Güterstrasse 4053 Basel Südpark is located near the main Railway Station Basel SBB The total ground floor level is designed to accommodate shops (since August 2011 the Swiss Supermarket Coop is settled in 70% of the ground floor area) The upper floors are designed around the first floor's enclosed garden The lower part (4 floors) in the south-west side of the volume accommodates several office spaces The higher part (9 floors) at the north-east side of the volume accommodates 100 apartments for elderly people, an elderly home with 28 beds and an internal restaurant The inner yard is part of the elderly house The façade of the whole building exists of a silver broom texture The tetris like windows on the north, east and west façade make it hard to read the floor plan from the outside The south façade is a spread of different sizes of windows at apparent places photo: Nazar Leskiw Project is public! Floor area/size m² Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), Zürich Tim_Smits Coop Supermarket: Monday to Saturday 07:00-22:00 h Basel SBB, Exit Güterstrasse 27

28 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Museum der Kulturen Münsterplatz Basel Museum of Ethnology, located right in the heart of Basel's old town, has been renovated and extended so as to include new exhibition space on the top of an already existing building This addition is crowned by an impressive, irregularly folded, roof clad in dark green ceramic tiles (concave, convex and flat) Cantilevered from the rest of the building, the new structure provides support for specially devised plant holders that create a curtain of hanging greenery Access to the museum is through a courtyard that descends gently toward the reception area An open staircase leads to three refurbished exhibition floors and culminates in the column-free space of the new roof addition Project is public! Museum der Kulturen Basel Tim_Smits photo: Nazar Leskiw Tuesday - Sunday: h Monday: closed Tram Nr 2 ("Bahnhof SBB" or "Badischer Bahnhof") Halte "Kunstmuseum", then walk along Rittergasse and across Münsterplatz 28

29 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Stucki Hotel Badenstrasse 1 CH-4019 Basel wwwwelcomegroupch/en/stuecki/hotel/ This hotel is part of the Stücki shopping mall and leisure center in Basel, opened in September 2009 The architecture, with its clean, straight lines, is a creation of Diener & Diener s The interiors, by the renowned Studio Hannes Wettstein, radiate perfect harmony The clients were thrilled by the warm colors and the spacious rooms flooded with natural light The 'floating' concept: a large desk, a legless sideboard, and subtle details create a feeling of vast openness and elegant comfort Project is public! Diener & Diener HelleBeelden photo: Maarten Helle 29

30 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Maarten Helle St Jakob Turm Birsstrasse 320 CH-4052 Basel The landmark of the new St Jakob Park is naturally the St Jakob Tower Like a city gate, above all it represents a distinctive entrance to Basel from the motorway The tower is particularly noticeable because of its special shape, which appears different from each of the four points of the compass The crystalline glass body was created by the renowned architect s office Herzog & de Meuron The St Jakob Tower also houses 37 exclusive offices and business premises The roomhigh panoramic windows and recessed balconies are largely south-facing and offer fantastic views Project is not public! Floor area/size m² HelleBeelden photo: Maarten Helle 30

31 photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Volkshaus Brasserie & Bar Rebgasse Basel This is the first phase of a long-term renovation project of the 1925 "Volkshaus" building - in addition to the existing concert hall and beer garden, later on a hotel, a shop and a library are also to be reinstated In the renovation of the bar and the brasserie, H&dM have removed all the unnecessary interventions from the 1970s, thus bringing back the original architectural character All the new elements refer to the original - eg, oval windows or light fixtures, chairs and table tops Materials used include wood, leather and tin Wallpaper recreating 17th c Basel as depicted by M Merian cover the restroom walls thus alluding to the centuries-old history of the "Volkshaus" predecessors photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Project is public! Volkshaus Basel Immobilien DinaBM Tram 8 or 6 to Claraplatz 31

32 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Messe Basel Messeplatz Basel The new hall for the Messe Basel includes square meters of exhibition space that spreads across two windowless floors, each 8 meters high This large volume is clad into a shimmering facade of interwoven metal strips, with each of floors slightly offset The ground floor, enclosed in glass, is designed for public use and is shaped so as to form a "city lounge" - a covered plaza that opens to the sky through a large, mesmerizing oculus photo: Dirk Verwoerd Project is public! Floor area/size m², Urban planner Messe Basel DinaBM City lounge is part of the Messeplatz, always open Tram no1, 2,

33 photo: Kylähullu Heilig Kreuz Kirche Masanserstrasse Chur Standing at the foot of the Alps is the highly contemporary Holy Cross Church in Chur, Designed by Basel born Swiss architect Walter Förderer, the church evokes strong features of Brutalism Built between 1966 to 1969, the church appears like a mass fortress that conveys a symbolic defensive attitude photo: Philip Stessens Project is public! 1969 Walter Forderer Philip 33