Europaallee Zurich

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Europaallee - originally HB-Südwest , later urban area HB and Eurogate Zurich - is one of the urban planning plans in the south-western apron of Zurich main station . For several decades, various commercial uses of the properties of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in the city center were planned above and next to the tracks .

Europaallee district

The Europaallee district consists of eight construction sites (A to H), three of which have already been completed and occupied (sites A, C and E - as of February 2015). In addition to a shopping arcade, this includes the Zurich University of Education and several office complexes (including UBS , Credit Suisse and Swisscanto ). At the beginning of 2015, Google was won as the largest future tenant . Construction site G celebrated the topping-out ceremony in May 2014 and was occupied in 2015. By 2020, around 400 condominiums and rental apartments, a hotel, a cinema and an apartment for the elderly will be built on the area belonging to Europaallee.

facts and figures

  • Area area: 78,000 m²
  • Number of stores: currently 35; 76 by 2020
  • Study places: 4,800 students at the University of Education Zurich and KV Zurich Business School (from spring 2016) and Juventus (from 2017)
  • Workplaces: 8,000 on approx. 100,000 m² of office space (by 2020)
  • Residential share: 400 apartments and 174 hotel beds
  • Parking spaces: approx. 500

architecture

A large number of projects are being built on several construction sites:

  • Sihlpost
  • Site A - by Max Dudler Architects , Zurich. In operation since 2012.
  • Site B - Stücheli Architects, Zurich. Reference: 2017
  • Site C - Team Max Dudler, Zurich, Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer, Zurich , and David Chipperfield , London. Reference: 2013 (owned / own use by UBS)
  • Site D - Wiel Arets Architects, Amsterdam and Zurich. Reference: 2020
  • Site E - Team Caruso St John Architects, London, together with Bosshard Vaquer Architects, Zurich. Reference: 2014
  • Construction field F - Boltshauser Architects , Zurich. Reference: 2019
  • Construction site G - ARGE Graber Pulver Architekten AG / Masswerk. Reference: 2015
  • Construction site H - E2A Architekten AG Zurich, in a team with Basler & Hofmann, Ingenieure und Planer AG, Zurich. Reference: 2017
  • Public space - Team Rotzler Krebs Partner GmbH landscape architects, Winterthur together with ewp AG engineers, planners, geometers, Effretikon

history

Previous plans under the name HB-Südwest were continued with the entry of the major Swiss bank UBS (UBS Fund Management AG, Basel) as an investor and builder in October 1996 as Eurogate . The public limited company HB-Südwest - founded in March 1995 with the purpose of "processing the overall HB-Südwest project and the Lagerstrasse residential development in Zurich up to the building permit" - was renamed Eurogate Zurich AG in October 1996 .

Eurogate / HB-Südwest comprised two major Zurich projects:

  • Eurogate Zurich track superstructure (construction cost approx. 1.5 billion Swiss francs, planned since 1980)
  • Housing development Lagerstrasse (study contracts 2000, 350 of the 500 apartments as well as office, commercial, leisure areas and replacement areas for SBB systems )

The Zurich architecture firm Ralph Bänziger Architekten was commissioned with the planning as the winner of a competition in the 1970s. Luigi Snozzi and Mario Botta also took part in the competition at that time . They designed a slim bridge building over the tracks, but their project was not pursued. Ralph Bänziger, on the other hand, proposed a massive track superstructure.

The work on the two projects and on numerous changes lasted from 1980 to 2001. The overall management was the general contractor ARGE Eurogate Zurich ( Steiner AG was the main participant ).

Right from the start, the planning was accompanied by criticism from a part of the public and politicians of an “excessive project” as well as doubts from potential investors about commercial success. Doubts were initially expressed internally, both at SBB and UBS, but were brushed aside by financial experts interested in the investment. In the end, however, in September 2001, the Extraordinary General Meeting decided to dissolve the AG. The costs of the planning work “in the tens of millions” (UBS) were written off.

The SBB, together with the post office and the city ​​of Zurich , planned to continue in this area under the new name Stadtraum HB , albeit to a less complex extent:

  • In December 2004, SBB, the landowner SBB, submitted a design plan for the HB urban space project
  • In January 2006, the Zurich City Council approved the design plan without a dissenting vote
  • On the occasion of a referendum initiated by a private committee in September 2006, Zurich's voters approved the design plan.

The project started as Europaallee at the beginning of 2009. The total investment amounts to around one billion francs. In 2013 there was a further referendum on the street leading along the area after the left alternative list had launched another referendum against the widening and in particular the resulting compensation for the SBB.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urban development & use. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Fast ein Quartier , NZZ, October 12, 2016 (title of the print edition alluding to the 2015 advertising campaign with statements such as "almost like in the university quarter", "almost like in the old town".)
  3. ↑ says yes to the redesign of the Lagerstrasse

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '44.8 "  N , 8 ° 31' 54.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-one  /  248160