Here we go again, after the recent post about the redevelopment of the fair in Basel by HdM, today at a media briefing in Basel their design for the new tower for Roche was announced and introduced.
Roche, a global health-care company, based in Basel, will be redeveloping their headquarters-campus, also by adding a 160m (524 feet) tower; which would become Switzerland's highest tower. The timetable suggests an approval by the city's council by the end of 2007 and once approved, construction would take place between 2008 and 2011.
Take a look at some images and at a visualization.
via: dialog, and the official media release.
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h&dm's barrage of project announcements are getting as boring as calatrava's were a year or so ago. glad they're getting wealthy, but my reactions to each project have evolved from 'wow!' to 'oh, yeah, that. right.' the equivalent of a recording artist having too much product on the market.
i'm sure that the old guard of starchitects (stern, meier, johnson, mies, etc.) didn't hype EVERY project, just the ones that were pushing things forward.
at certain point many "big" architects should have a "forced hollidays" if you know what I mean.
the commissions that you get, and the point in time where there are made public are not in the choice of any architect. after this coincidental strain of new and old h&dm project shown here, there will be inevitably some "forced holidays". finaly they have to build that stuff, and that can take 4 and more years. you know what I mean?
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