Zentrales Stellwerk der SBB

train building
technical building

Herzog & de Meuron (architecture)
Jacques Herzog (architecture)
Pierre de Meuron (architecture)
SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (client)

• Switzerland

  Staat

  Basel-City

  canton

  Basle

  city

  Münchensteinerbrücke

  street

project

period	description
1994–1997	planning period
1998–1999	construction period

• terracing
• train building
• metaphor: transformer
• sheet metal façade out copper stripes
• flat roof
• louvres out of copper
• technical building
• Stellwerk

Stellwerk 4 Auf dem Wolf

• Expressiver Minimalismus
  in: NZZ - Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2000, Ausgabe vom 07.01.2000
  L. Windhöfel
  
• 
  article in: El Croquis: Herzog & de Meuron 1993-1997, 1997,84
  page 160–163
  

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