Metalli (train)

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Metalli
Metalli
Basic data
Location: Zug SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Opening: September 24, 1987
Total area: 76,491 m²
Sales area : 20,383 m²
Shops: 55
Turnover : approx. CHF 170 million
Owner : Zug Estate Holding AG
Website: Metalli.ch
Transport links
Railway station: Metalli / train station Zug
S-Bahn : S2
Parking spaces : about 1000
Technical specifications
Architects : Return Krummenacher Architects AG
HP. Ammann + P. Baumann
Architectural style : Postmodern
Construction: Solid construction
Building-costs: 550 million CHF
Metalli-Platz with entrance, UBS and sculptures

The (also the ) Metalli is a shopping, residential and office district in the center of the Swiss city train on the grounds of the former metal factory train near the station train .

Location and use

The Metalli is located on a plot of around 25,000 m² between Baarerstrasse, Metallstrasse, Industriestrasse and Gotthardstrasse in downtown Zug. The covered metal passage forms the core. Here there are 55 shops with a total of 17,000 m² sales area. There are two more areas on the opposite side of Industriestrasse. Together the complex extends over a land area of ​​58,737 m². It consists of several structures, some of which have a different architecture, and includes 20,383 m² of retail space, 19,179 m² of office space, 110 apartments and two hotels.

The main tenants in the shopping arcade are Migros , C&A , H&M and Dosenbach-Ochsner, as well as UBS as users of privately owned office space. In addition, there are a number of restaurants, a day care center and a children's theater. There are around 1000 parking spaces available.

The Metalli is managed by Zug Estates AG and supported by the Guthirt neighborhood association and the Pro Zug association. The majority owner, directly and at Metalli I / II as a 60% co-owner, is Zug Estate Holding AG.

history

After the merger of the Zug AG Metallwarenfabrik AG, founded in 1880, known by the residents as Metalli , with the Zug galvanizing plant to form V-Zug AG in 1959, production in downtown Zug was completely relocated to the galvanizing plant in the following years. In 1972, the Metalli project , a city district by the Swiss architects Leo Hafner and Alfons Wiederkehr, was presented to convert the free-standing factory area and the Metalli Bergli development plan required for this was adopted in a referendum on February 27, 1983 . The project was highly controversial. One of the prominent opponents of the project was the founder of the Documentation Center Doku-Zug , Daniel Brunner.

The realization by MZ-Immobilien AG as the legal successor to Metallwarenfabrik Zug AG together with a group of investors around UBS began in 1983 with the demolition of the old metal goods factory. The new building took place from 1984 in several construction phases according to plans by Wiederkehr Krummenacher Architekten AG in the style of postmodernism . The opening of the first part of Metalli I was on September 24, 1987. In the same year, the Parkhotel Zug was completed next door. Metalli II followed on March 14, 1991. On July 3, 1995, UBS opened its new headquarters in Section III, which was built according to plans by the architects Ammann and Baumann . Section IV with mainly offices and apartments was also built by the end of 1995. In a further construction phase, the City Garden Hotel and the Serviced City Apartments were built by 2009, followed by an expansion of Metalli I / II by 2000 m² of office space and 4000 m² of retail space in 2012.

On July 1, 2012, MZ-Immobilien AG was spun off from Metall Zug and has since operated independently under the name of Zug Estates Holding AG. The spin-off takes place through the distribution of Zug Estates Holding AG shares.

Art in public space

  • In front of the main entrance on Metalli-Platz are the two sculptures Signpost for Ideas by the New York artist Matt Mullican . The larger one is 9 meters high. Both are among the most striking works of art in the public space of the canton of Zug. After long discussions, the canopy over the Metalli-Platz was removed for the installation.
  • In the Metalli-Passage there is a wooden sculpture by the Swiss sculptor Raffael Benazzi from 1987.

rating

In 2015, the art historian and curator of the canton of Aargau, Reto Nussbaumer, criticized the decision at the time to demolish the old factory. Others consider the Metalli to be popular with the population and an integral part of downtown Zug.

Web links

Commons : Metalli (Zug)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Metalli / Zug center area . In: Zug Estates Holding AG (Ed.): Annual Report 2016 . March 2017, p. 14 ( zugestates.ch [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b Loredana Bevilacqua: What makes the Zuger Metalli successful. In: Central Plus. September 8, 2017, accessed May 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e real estate. Zug Estates AG, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Metalli Zug construction stages I-IV, Zug. Künzle Partner AG, accessed on April 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Luzia Blum: The Metalli Center is 30 years old. In: Lucerne newspaper . September 7, 2017, accessed May 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ portrait. Quartierverein Guthirt, accessed on May 4, 2018 .
  7. ^ IG Metalli. Association Pro Zug, accessed on May 4, 2018 .
  8. ^ Leo Hafner : Leo Hafner Archive. Images, sculptures, buildings . Victor Hotz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523499-3-9 ( leohafner.ch ).
  9. ↑ Zug Estates Holding AG (Ed.): Listing prospectus . June 27, 2012, p. 1 ff . ( uzh.ch [PDF]).
  10. ↑ Andreas Faessler: A look: Mullicans sculptures on Metalli-Platz. In: Lucerne newspaper. November 22, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Faessler: A symbol for the flourishing business? In: Zuger Zeitung. January 16, 2017, accessed May 4, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Andreas Faessler: Where is Zug's new old town? In: Lucerne newspaper. November 11, 2015, accessed May 4, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '22.2 "  N , 8 ° 31' 3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred eighty-nine  /  225215