Europaallee building plot B, Zurich
completed
SBB Immobilien Portfolio Management

New building
Competition, architecture and general planner
Office building with commercial uses and restaurants.

Planning 2012-2016 / Construction 2015-2019

Together with the University of Teacher Education, the office and commercial centre forms the starting point of the new Europaallee district. Erected between the railway tracks and Europaplatz, the narrow building rises into a ten-storey frontage structure at its head on the square. The façade features a repetitive structure, with a dynamic grid pattern on the transition to the two base storeys, where heavy-duty girders absorb the weight of the upper storeys. The overhang above Europaplatz accentuates the retail and restaurant spaces at street level. The second overhang along the railway tracks evokes, much like a signal box, the perpetual dynamic of trains coming and going.