List of high-rise buildings in Basel
The list of skyscrapers in Basel includes all completed or under construction skyscrapers with a structural height of 50 meters or more in the city of Basel . Buildings that are not used for commercial or residential purposes, such as churches or silos, are shown in the list according to their height for reasons of comparison, but not counted in rank.
The development of high-rise buildings began comparatively late in Basel. Until the middle of the 20th century there were no high-rise buildings apart from the tower house on Aeschenplatz (31 meters, built in 1928/9) and the Bürgerspital (34 meters, completed in 1937). There was no urban planning concept for the construction of such structures; the availability of building land and location dictated the development. A zoning plan was only introduced in 1939 and buildings over 28 meters long were classified as high-rise buildings.
After high-rise residential buildings on the outskirts of the city in the 1950s, the commercial high-rise on Heuwaage was the first high-rise in a central location. In the 1960s, the headquarters of Hoffmann-La Roche , Lonza , Ciba and Geigy were built as high-rise buildings. After the cautious 1970s and 1980s in the development of high-rise buildings, the decision was made in the early 1990s to strengthen Basel as a trade fair location. As a result, the exhibition tower was completed about ten years later , at 105 meters the tallest skyscraper in Switzerland at the time. Further densification of the greater Basel area resulted in 2015 with the Roche Tower (Building 1), another record high-rise in a nationwide comparison .
list
| rank | Surname | image | Height (m) | Floors | opening | Location | architect | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | Roche Tower (Building 2) |
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205 | 50 | 2021 | Grenzacherstrasse, Kleinbasel | Herzog & de Meuron | under construction |
| 1 | Roche Tower (Building 1) |
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178 | 41 | 2015 | Grenzacherstrasse 124, Kleinbasel | Herzog & de Meuron | tallest skyscraper in Switzerland |
| [2] | Roche (Building 7) | 114 | 26th | 2023 | Grenzacherstrasse, Kleinbasel | Herzog & de Meuron | under construction | |
| 2 | Exhibition tower |  |
105 | 31 | 2003 | Messeplatz 12, Basel-Rosental | Morger & Degelo | 2003–2011 tallest skyscraper in Switzerland |
| [3] | Clisherm |  |
96 | 30th | 2020 | Riehenring, Basel-Rosental | Morger Partner Architects | under construction |
| [4] | Baloise skyscraper |  |
89 | 24 | 2020 | Aeschengraben 31, Basel suburbs | Miller & Maranta | under construction |
| Ultra-Brag silo tower | 83 | 2009 | Basel harbor | |||||
| 3 | Meret Oppenheim skyscraper |  |
81 | 19th | 2019 | Güterstrasse, SBB train station, Basel-Gundeldingen | Herzog & de Meuron | |
| Matthew Church |  |
80 | 1864 | Basel-Matthew | Felix Henry | |||
| 4th | Grosspeter Tower |  |
78 | 2017 | Grosspeterstrasse 44, Basel-St. Alban | Burckhardt + Partner AG | ||
| 5 | Novartis building K25 |  |
75 | 1966 | Unterer Rheinweg 180, Basel-Klybeck | Suter + Suter | ||
| 5 | Novartis building WSJ-210 | 75 | 1973 | Novartis Campus, Basel-St. Johann | ||||
| [6] | Biozentrum tower | 73 | 2018 | Klingelbergstrasse 70, Basel-Am Ring | Andreas Ilg and Marcel Santer | under construction since 2014 | ||
| Elisabethenkirche |  |
72 | 1864 | Basel suburbs | Ferdinand Stadler | |||
| Silo Brenntag | 72 | Elsässerstrasse 200, Basel-St. Johann | ||||||
| 6th | St. Jacob Tower |  |
71 | 17th | 2008 | St. Jakobs-Strasse 397, Basel-St. Alban | Herzog & de Meuron | |
| 7th | BIS tower |  |
69.5 | 20th | 1977 | Centralbahnplatz 2, Basel-Am Ring | Burckhardt and Partner AG | At the time of reference it was the third highest house in Basel |
| 8th | Lonza skyscraper |  |
68.4 | 19th | 1962 | Münchensteinerstrasse 38, Basel-Am Ring | Hans Rudolf and Peter Suter | At the time of reference, it was the tallest house in Basel |
| 9 | Novartis S-386 | 65 | 16 | Novartis Campus, Basel-St. Johann | ||||
| 10 | Novartis WSJ-188 |  |
65 | 14th | 2014 | Novartis Campus, Basel-St. Johann | ||
| Basel Minster |  |
62.7 | ~ 1500 | Münsterplatz , old town Grossbasel | ||||
| Antonius Church |  |
62 | 1927 | Basel-St. Johann | Karl Coelestin Moser | |||
| 11 | Roche (Building 52) |  |
63 | 18th | 1960 | Grenzacherstrasse, Kleinbasel | Roland Rohn | |
| 11 | Commercial building at the airport | 63 | 2007 | Flughafenstrasse 215, Basel-St. Johann | ||||
| 12 | Hechtliacker house | 57 | 19th | 1963 | Hechtliacker 44, Basel-St. Alban | Otto and Walter Senn | ||
| 13 | Residential building Sperrstrasse | 57 | 19th | 1968 | Sperrstrasse 40, Basel-Matthäus | |||
| 13 | Thomy skyscraper | 57 | Horburgstrasse 105, Basel-Klybeck | |||||
| 13 | Residential building C1 Schorenweg |  |
57 | 2016 | Schorenweg 36 Basel-Hirzbrunnen | |||
| 14th | Residential houses Redingstrasse and Lehenmattstrasse | 54 | 18th | 1960s | Redingstrasse 10, 12, 20, 22 and Lehenmattstrasse 280,282,308,310 Basel-Breite | |||
| Silo tower Basel |  |
54 | 1925 | Port of Basel | Hans Bernoulli | |||
| - | Syngenta skyscraper |  |
53 | 1957/58 | Schwarzwaldallee 215, Basel-Hirzbrunnen | Burckhardt Architects | Dismantling in 2017 | |
| 15th | Coop high-rise |  |
52 | 14th | 1979 | Thiersteinerallee 12, Basel-Gundeldingen | ||
| 16 | Heuwaage high-rise |  |
50 | 1952 | Basel suburbs | |||
| 17th | Residential buildings Schorenweg |  |
50 | 1962 | Schorenweg 20,22,30,32, Basel-Hirzbrunnen |
literature
- High-rise buildings and special permits in Basel City in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung 78/1960, issue 30, p. 504. ( online here )
- Cantonal monument preservation Basel-Stadt. Annual report 2014 , in it: Basel's city skyline in the Middle Ages and in modern times and accents with measure . ( here online )
- Thomas Bachmann, Anne Nagel, Franz Egger: Skyscrapers for Basel - opportunities and problems . Voluntary Basel Monument Preservation, Basel 2016. ( online here )
Web links
- High-rise concept of the planning office of the city of Basel with the report: High-rise buildings in Basel. Basics and Concept (PDF)
- Structure plan high-rise buildings in the canton of Basel-Stadt
- Tilo Richter: Höhenluft am Rhein , in: Basel program newspaper , March 2011.
- TagesWoche : Basel, the high-rise city of the future , article from January 26, 2015
- Size comparison of the tallest buildings in Basel at SkyscraperPage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ High-rise buildings in Basel. Basics and concept , p. 20
- ^ High-rise buildings in Basel. Basics and concept , p. 25
- ^ High-rise buildings in Basel. Basics and concept , p. 21
- ^ High-rise buildings in Basel. Basics and concept , p. 22
- ^ Hannes Lauber: 83 meter high silo in the Basel harbor . Badische Zeitung , September 15, 2008, accessed October 5, 2015 .
- ^ Tower of Basel . Bühler AG , February 12, 2009, accessed October 5, 2015 .
- ↑ NN: skyscraper Hechtliacker in Basel . Architects Otto and Walter Senn BSA, Basel; Engineer: C. Prince; Local construction management: Oskar Ley, Basel. In: Werk . tape 53 , no. February 2 , 1966, doi : 10.5169 / seals-41168 .
- ↑ Wincasa: skylights-schoren.wincasaweb.ch. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Dieter Kohler: In Basel's Lehenmatt district, four high-rise buildings are growing in width . SRF , May 1, 2015, accessed October 6, 2015 .
- ^ NN: Administration building of JR Geigy AG in Basel . 1957/58, architects Martin H. and Karl August Burckhardt BSA / SIA, Basel. In: Werk . tape 45 , no. July 7 , 1958, doi : 10.5169 / seals-35055 .