Shopping center Schönbühl

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Shopping center Schönbühl
Basic data
Location: Lucerne
Langensandstrasse 23, 6005 Lucerne
Opening: November 16, 1967
Sales area : 6,668 m²
Shops: 24
Turnover : 54 million CHF (2016)
Owner : Swiss Prime Site AG
Operator: Wincasa AG
Website: Shopping center Schönbühl
Transport links
Bus stop: Lucerne, Schönbühl
Local transport : Bus route 21
trolleybus routes 6 and 8
Parking spaces : 330
Technical specifications
Construction time : 1966-1968
Architects : Alfred Roth (shopping center)
Alvar Aalto (high-rise)

The Schönbühl shopping center in Lucerne is the oldest shopping center in Switzerland . It is the 1966 to 1968 recognized partial overbuilding belongs Schönbühl, which also includes the Schönbühl skyscraper.

offer

Today the Schönbühl shopping center houses 24 shops with around 6,700 square meters of retail space. These include branches of Coop , Migros , Denner and Aldi Suisse , a café and a bank .

history

In the early 1960s, Felix von Schumacher suggested building a modern residential area in the Schönbühl area, where his family had had a country estate since the 16th century. This should also include a covered shopping center based on the model of American malls. The Zurich architect and ETH professor Alfred Roth was commissioned to plan this shopping center .

When the Schönbühl shopping center opened on November 16, 1967, it was the first such shopping center in Switzerland. It comprised a single storey storey, which contained nine coordinated shops from all areas of daily needs. The 13 air conditioning systems , which ensured that the temperature in the building was always between 20 ° C and 26 ° C, were considered a particular convenience at that time . Around 180 parking spaces were available on the roof of the building for customers' cars.

The basement, which initially served as an underground car park with 100 parking spaces for the high-rise apartment building, was redesigned as a second storey in the 1980s as part of a major renovation. The eastern entrance ramp to the basement was redesigned for pedestrian access.

In the second half of 2006, the Schönbühl shopping center was rebuilt again, with a new entrance area being created and the interior design with organic shapes adapted to the zeitgeist. Today the Schönbühl shopping center, which is still the largest shopping center in the city of Lucerne, mainly serves as a district shopping center.

skyscraper

The Schönbühl high-rise seen from the south-west (2009)

The Schönbühl development from 1966 to 1968 also includes a 16-storey high-rise by Alvar Aalto , which was built with Leca concrete elements within a year of the opening of the shopping center . The design of the high-rise with its fan-shaped floor plan and the facade rounded to the south-east is similar to the Aalto high-rise in Bremen . Today there are 84 apartments and a restaurant on the ground floor in the building . The building is to be completely renovated between 2018 and 2020.

Development

The Schönbühl shopping center is located on Langensandstrasse, which connects Lucerne city center with the Horw districts of St. Niklausen and Kastanienbaum . The Schönbühl stop is located in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the shopping center and is served by buses on route 21 and by trolleybuses on routes 6 and 8. A total of 330 free outdoor parking spaces are available for passenger cars at the rear and on the roof of the building.

Web links

Official website of the Schönbühl shopping center
Official website of the Aalto high-rise

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Luzerner Zeitung: When shopping was revolutionized , article from November 6, 2017
  2. ↑ a b The Schönbühl development near Lucerne (PDF file) from Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst, Volume 55, 1968
  3. ↑ Markus Lischer: Schumacher [from]. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Retrieved November 12, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Swiss radio and television : Lucerne was first - “The shopping center became a meeting place for residents of the neighborhood”, article from November 3, 2017
  5. ↑ Consumption between modernity and today from Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Volume 95, 2008
  6. ↑ Lucerne: Complete renovation of the Aalto high-rise - 84 tenants in the Schönbühl-Quartier received the cancellation article from May 19, 2017 on Zentralplus.ch