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General Information

Beginning of works: 9 May 2012
Completion: 18 September 2015
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Office building

Location

Location: , ,
Address: Grenzacherstrasse 124
Next to: Roche Tower 2 (2022)
Coordinates: 47° 33' 31.60" N    7° 36' 28.07" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 178 m
number of floors (above ground) 41
building volume 375 000 m³
gross floor area 83 000 m²
useable space 76 000 m²

Cost

cost of construction Swiss Franc 550 000 000

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Roche Tower (German:Roche-Turm) is a skyscraper in the Swiss city of Basel. At 178 metres, it is the tallest building in the country.

The building, also known as "Building 1" (German:Bau 1), was financed by pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and designed by Herzog & de Meuron. It cost 550 million Swiss francs to build. The entire construction ensemble, including a planned 205-metre "Building 2" research facility, is expected to cost three billion francs in total.

When finished on 18 September 2015, Roche Tower overtook Prime Tower in Zürich as Switzerland's tallest building, the latter having held the record for four years. Strict planning laws mean there are few skyscrapers in the country.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Roche Tower" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20072754
  • Published on:
    28/03/2017
  • Last updated on:
    27/08/2021
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