Cité du Lignon
The Cité du Lignon (also Cité Le Lignon ) is a large housing estate in the Swiss municipality of Vernier , a western suburb of Geneva , built between 1962 and 1971 according to plans by Georges Addor .
Building description
The longest residential building in Switzerland rises in the wide loop of the Rhone below Geneva - designed as a branched polygon over a kilometer long. The nine-storey building on the hill gains a further six storeys over the course of the Rhone . There this block forms an open space with two other high-rise buildings with 29 and 34 storeys. Originally designed for 10,000 middle-class residents, it now houses around 5,700 tenants.
Planning history and urban background
After many attempts - including radical ones - to redesign Geneva's urban planning situation had failed, at the end of the 1950s, according to the law on the development of urban agglomerations (Loi sur le développement des agglomerations urbaines, LDAU), the surrounding area was expanded with settlements for up to 30,000 inhabitants planned. Addor was strategically involved in this development (with a master plan that he developed together with Honegger Frères and the city planning office, André Marais) and also practically involved with some large estates.
literature
- Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 3: Western Switzerland, Valais, Ticino. Zurich: Werk Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-909145-13-2
- Florian Adler, Hans Girsberger, Olinde Riege (HG.): Architekturführer Schweiz , Zürich: Les Editions d'Architecture Artemis exp. New edition 1978, ISBN 3-7608-8004-5
- Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
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Coordinates: 46 ° 12 '11 " N , 6 ° 5' 52" E ; CH1903: 496,508 / 117731