Grand Council building (Chur)

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Grand Council building after the artistic redesign of the entrance area
The Grand Council building before the facade renovation

The Grand Council building is the building in the Grisons canton capital Chur , in which the meetings of the Grand Council , the parliamentary legislature of Graubünden, take place. It is located north of the old town in the immediate vicinity of the Chur Theater .

Originally, it was a uniform building, built between 1861 and 1863 by the architect Johannes Ludwig in the neo-renaissance style, which was used as an armory . In 1959 the architect Martin Risch separated the building into a theater and parliament.

In 2008/09, the architect Valerio Olgiati redesigned the entrance area for an estimated 670,000 Swiss francs. This was widely discussed in public and was accompanied by construction delays and legal disputes.

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  1. The entrance to the House of the Grand Council

Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '8.3 "  N , 9 ° 32' 2.4"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred eighty-seven  /  191151