Europaallee Mixed-use Building

Zurich, Switzerland 2007–2013

Client: SBB RIBA Award for International Excellence

This project is for a mixed-use building in the centre of Zurich, which was won in an invited competition organised by the city of Zurich and the SBB, the Swiss Federal Railways. The building is located on a key site within the master plan for the redevelopment of former railway land, next to Zurich’s main railway station. It is one of several large buildings to be constructed along Europaallee, a new street that runs through the centre of the master plan, leading from the railway station. Other buildings are designed by Max Dudler, David Chipperfield and Gigon Guyer. The building has a mixed programme of retail on the ground floor, with offices and apartment towers above.

Site plan

Ground floor plan

Typical office floor plan

Fifth floor plan, apartment and roof garden

Tenth floor plan, apartments

Long section

Southwest elevation

North elevation

North façade detail

West façade detail

Façade detail

Precast green concrete

Publication

Casabella
Europaallee Mixed-use Building, Zurich

Milan, Italy

In December's edition of Casabella, Francesco Dal Co discusses the development of Europaallee in central Zurich, focusing on Caruso St John and Bosshard Vaquer's mixed-use building, its neighbour, designed by Graber Pulver, and the influence of modern Milanese architecture on both buildings.

Project: Europaallee Mixed-use Building