ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1004085/verwaltungsgebaude-brugg-kabelwerke-office-building-tschudin-urech-bolt-architekten Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 Hadir Al Koshta https://www.archdaily.com/1004085/verwaltungsgebaude-brugg-kabelwerke-office-building-tschudin-urech-bolt-architekten The reason for the Fifties high-rise refurbishment of the building, which was erected in 1956/57, was the high level of asbestos contamination and its poor energy balance. The office building had been valuable before, reports Marco Tschudin of Tschudin Urech Bolt Architekten, but with a sweltering 34 degrees in summer, it was unusable. Many post-war buildings cause similar problems and are replaced under buzzwords like densification, efficiency, or economy. But the administration building was lucky. It still looks - or looks again - almost as it did when it was built. It owes this to its municipal protection status, the sensitivity of the planners, and the willingness of BRUGG Immobilien AG as the building owner to put a little more money in its hand.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/926058/meret-oppenheim-hochhaus-building-herzog-and-de-meuron Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Paula Pintos https://www.archdaily.com/926058/meret-oppenheim-hochhaus-building-herzog-and-de-meuron Site. SBB is one of Switzerland’s largest landowners. This national railway company owns land in prime locations of the urban centers across the country. This previously underutilized potential of real estate has been increasingly developed in the last years, thus contributing to the densification of urban centers around the main stations of Basel, Zurich, Lucerne, and other cities. Such densification and urban renewal project is the Meret Oppenheim Hochhaus, located in the Gundeldinger Quarter of Basel.

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