Roche Tower (Building 2)
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Roche Tower Roche Tower, Roche Building 2 |
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| Construction progress in June 2020 | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Basel , Switzerland |
| Construction time : | 2017 |
| Opening: | Mid-2022 (expected) |
| Status : | under construction |
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| Usage : | office |
| Jobs : | 1700 |
| Owner : | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG |
| Client : | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 205 m |
| Floors : | 50 |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete, steel |
| Building-costs: | 550 million francs |
| Safety: | Earthquake-proof up to 6.9 on the Richter scale |
The Roche Tower (Building 2) , also known as Roche Tower , is a high-rise office building under construction in Basel by the Swiss- based pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche .
Building 2 is to be optically based on the Roche Tower (Building 1) completed in 2015 . It is to be 205 meters high and 50 stories high, but have a smaller footprint and thus provide about the same capacity as Building 1 with 2400 office workplaces. This would make it the highest house in Switzerland. Completion is scheduled for mid-2022 . The total investment in the Roche Tower Building 2 is estimated at 1.2 billion Swiss francs .
history
In October 2014, the pharmaceutical company Roche announced that it would build a second, higher tower after the first Roche tower had been built. After there were no objections to the development plan for the northern area in the Wettstein district , the company submitted the building application for the second high-rise.
In November 2016, the demolition of older buildings on the Roche site began to make room for the new Roche Tower 2. The building construction could begin in early 2019. In mid-July 2019, twelve upper floors and 58 meters of the high-rise had already been reached. Towards the end of November 2019, the skyscraper grew to 90 meters. In July 2020 it was over 160 meters high.
reception
As with the first building , the voices are different. In addition to admiration and recognition for the resulting high-rise landscape, the monotonous facade design and lack of ideas are criticized. A copy of the first skyscraper rotated by 90 degrees is a banal shape.
Web links
- Interactive map: Quartierinfo Roche Basel
- Press release Roche: Roche invests in the future in Basel , announcement dated October 22, 2014
- BauNetz : HdM are planning big brother. Second Roche Tower in Basel , article from October 23, 2014
- Telebasel : Roche construction site: Now it's just up , article from May 15, 2019
- Project information: Roche Building 2. The big brother of Building 1
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Basellandschaftliche Zeitung : Roche is tearing down older buildings and making space for a second tower , article from February 2, 2017, accessed on August 15, 2017
- ↑ a b Michael Baas: The twin structure is taking shape. Badische Zeitung, July 30, 2020, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ TagesWoche : Roche submits planning application for the new tallest tower in Switzerland , article from October 4, 2015, accessed on August 15, 2017
- ↑ bzbasel.ch: Building 2 is being built here: This is Roche's mega construction site that dominates the Wettstein district , article from July 23, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2019
- ↑ Telebasel : New Skyline for Basel , article from November 22, 2019, accessed on November 26, 2019
- ↑ architekturbasel.ch: Between "terrible" and "great" - Roche Building 2 is causing a stir , article dated December 14, 2018, last accessed on April 11, 2019
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 33.7 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 27" E ; CH1903: 612 710 / two hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred forty-two