Toni area

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The Toni area after the renovation, 2014

The Toni-Areal is a building complex on Pfingstweidstrasse in Zurich-West . Where the Toni dairy (later Swiss Dairy Food ) used to have its production facility, there is now a university campus, which in autumn 2014 housed the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and parts of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) (departments Applied Psychology and Social Work).

history

Toni-Areal during the renovation in July 2012
Toni-Areal before the renovation in 2007

The Pfingstweidstrasse in Zurich-West was not built on for a long time despite its location in the middle of the industrial quarter. The Toni dairy was only opened in 1977 after five years of construction. At that time it was the largest European milk processing company, processing up to a million liters of milk a day. In 1999, Swiss Dairy Food , in which Toni was absorbed, decided to shut down the Toni dairy. The company was liquidated in 2000 and relocated to Gossau SG .

The new owner, Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), wanted to convert the building into an office complex. Since many offices were vacant at the beginning of the new millennium, the ZKB dropped this plan and released the area for temporary cultural use . Clubs such as the raw materials warehouse , the Tonimolkerei and Dachkantine began operating. Events, art exhibitions and sports tournaments also took place.

In 2005 it was decided to use the Toni area as a campus for the Zurich University of Applied Sciences . After a few legal disputes, the definitive renovation began in early 2011, which was planned by the Zurich architects EM2N and carried out by the general contractor Allreal . In addition, a tower with 90 apartments on 22 floors was built on the campus complex.

With the boom in Zurich-West, tram line 4 of the VBZ was given a new route in December 2011 : it has since turned off at Escher-Wyss-Platz and is led via Pfingstweidstrasse to Zurich Altstetten station. Immediately in front of the Toni-Areal is a stop that also bears this name.

The move in of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the departments of Social Work and Applied Psychology of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), which was planned for autumn 2013, was postponed for one year in February 2013 due to structural delays. In summer 2014, the two universities moved into the building; the campus was officially opened on September 12, 2014 by government councilor Regine Aeppli, among others . The first semester in the Toni-Areal began on September 16.

Web links

Commons : Toni-Areal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irène Troxler. High wire act for structural engineers . NZZ, February 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ Felix Schindler. Relocation of the universities is delayed by one year . NZZ, February 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ The workers are gone, the students are coming . in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 13, 2014, p. 16

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