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A new district is being created in the heart of Zurich. The trapezoidal area, located directly behind Zurich?s main train station, stretches from Langstrasse to Kasernenstrasse and from Lagerstrasse to the newly created Europaallee, which runs parallel to the train tracks. This major infrastructural project has a planned completion date of 2018. The new district will incorporate 6000 workplaces, 1800 study spaces, 400 flats, one hotel, shops and restaurants as well as other leisure activities. Prior to the decision taken to transform the tract of land in 2006, the area was being used by the Swiss Federal Railways and the Swiss Postal Service and was not accessible to the public. Courtesy of Max Dudler – Photographs : Stefan Müller
Max Dudler divided the building of the new Europaallee Zurich into two stages of construction. On Construction Site A, directly behind the listed Sihlpost building, an ensemble of three buildings is being erected for Zurich?s University of Teacher Education, together with additional office and shop facilities. The ensemble ? the first new buildings to be built in the Europaallee Quarter ? will be completed in autumn 2012.
Courtesy of Max Dudler – Photographs : Stefan Müller
The University?s elevated central campus is reached via a generously-proportioned set of external steps. The central area connects the ensemble?s main glass building with the structure to the south, which...