Zürich – Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland A “new quarter for Zurich”

Zürich – Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland
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Numbers:
Start of construction
RailCity
2005
Est’ed completion
2008 & 2014
Size
2,500 m2 of new retail
space
Cost
CHF 60,000,000
Start of construction
Stadtraum HB
2009
Est’ed completion
2018
Size
78,000 m2
Project partner Stadtraum
HB
Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB) and City of Zurich
Projects Components
RailCity
Reconstruction of Main Station
into a through station
2,500 m2 of new retail space
Stadtraum HB
New city district of office,
residential, hotel, retail, leisure, education facilities, and
public space with water component
Representative and attractive
office location for multinational finance, consulting, and
service corporations
Sources: Google Earth 2009; commons.wikimedia.org; www.railcity.ch; www.neueinnenstadt.ch.
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A “new quarter for Zurich”
Zurich’s first train station was built by
Gustav Albert Wegmann and opened in
1847 after the completion of the first rail
line in Switzerland between Baden and
Zurich. The further expansion of the rail
system led to the construction of a new
station – the current – built by Jakob Friedrich Wanner and opened in 1871.
(Swiss Post withdrew from the project in
2008) initiated the Stadtraum HB project
that will redevelop and “revalue” a large
area around the Main Station into a district with “clear identity.” The respective
development plan and design concept for
the area was approved by the eligible
voters of Zurich in 2006 with 65 %.
Between then and now, Zurich Main Station continued to be under constant reOfficial website Stadtraum
construction and renovation. Beside the
HB
http://www.neueinnenstadt.ch perpetual extension of the tracks and the
main hall, the station square was redes/en/index.php
igned (1889; 1967-1970), tracks were
Swiss Post project withlowered (1927) and subsequently develdrawal announcement
oped into an underground station (1990)
http://www.swisspost.ch/en/in
including the reconstruction of Zurich
dex/uk-privatkunden/imMain Station into a through station.
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The project will be carried out in three
stages with the first (30,000 m2) starting in
2009. This will include the development
of 70,000 m2 office space, 10,000 m2 of retail, 40,000 m2 educational use, and approximately 8,000 m2 of residential space
(mainly middle to high-prized). Its first
tenants will be the Pädagogische
Hochschule Zürich (Zurich School of Education) and the international finance firm
UBS both expected to move in in 2012. An
additional 30,000 m2 are currently being
marketed to future tenants by SPG Intercity. Phase two and three of office and
residential development will be subsequently realized until 2018.
Resources:
Official website RailCity
http://www.railcity.ch/index/z
uerich
RailCity Zurich development Plans
http://www.railcity.ch/index/i
ndex_zuerich/railcity_07_zueri
ch_wir_bauen_fuer_sie.htm
dienstleistungen/improjekt/im-zuerich-stadtraumhb.htm
Development projects led by
SBB
http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/konzer
n_projekte.htm
Zurich Main Station history
Stiftung Historisches Erbe (no
date) “Zeitreihe Hauptbahnhof
Zürich der SBB” Bern
Public discussion forum
http://www.skyscrapercity.co
m/showthread.php?t=726414
The construction of the trough station also
brought about the opportunity to develop
new commercial spaces within the rebuild station. Shop-Ville, the 24h retail
concept also advertized with the slogan
“Shopping, Linger, Meeting,” was first
introduced in 1970, however, will be expanded Zurich Main Station with 2500 m2
of new retail space in coordination with
the current addition of four high-speed
underground through-tracks.
Moreover, in 2003 the SBB, the Swiss
Federal Railways and the City of Zurich
The goal of Stadtraum HB is to bring
about a new inner city district of work –
shopping – living with a focus on office
and service space and amenities for international companies. Together with the
manifold shops, restaurants, and leisure
facilities, Stadtraum HB is supposed to
generate approximately 6,000 new jobs.
This project profile was developed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether Research Project on “The Urban Renaissance Potential of
Inner-City Rail Station Redevelopment Mega-Projects.” For additional information on the project: http://megaprojects.metropolitanstudies.de