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Zurich-West, transformation of a former industrial area: Barbara Petri (Thumbnail)
Barbara Petri
Basel, Zurich

Barbara Petri, Dipl.-Ing. Architect RWTH SIA

Barbara Petri, born in Rheinhausen (Germany). Studied architecture at RWTH Aachen with a diploma under Gottfried Böhm with an exchange year at ETH Zurich under Giancarlo Durisch. 2 years of office work at OM Ungers in Frankfurt. From 1982 worked as an architect in Zurich and St. Gallen. Shared office with Markus Schaefle from 1985 to 1988. 12 years as a teaching assistant in design and construction at the ETHZ with Prof. Herbert Kramel, 10 years as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart and 5 years as a lecturer at the Zurich University of Technology ZHAW. Partner and guide at ARCHiTOUR since 2005.

Tours in German, English.

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Claudia Frigo Mallien
Basel, Zurich

Claudia Frigo Mallien, dipl. Architect ETH

Claudia Frigo Mallien, born in Baden (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ. Office work in Basel in the area of ​​hospital planning and in planning and consulting offices in Zurich. 7 years assistant at the ETHZ for design & construction with Prof. Arthur Rüegg, organizing all study trips for students. She writes about architectural projects in the Swiss Building Documentation magazine. She has been working as an architect in Baden at Schoop De Santis Architekten AG since 2008 and is a partner and guide at ARCHiTOUR.

Tours in German, English, Italian, French.

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Kristin Müller
Basel, Zurich

Kristin Müller, dipl. Architect ETH SIA

Kristin Müller, born in Zurich (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ. Office work in Seville (Spain) with G. Vazquez Consuegra arquitectos, then own office in Zurich, two architects. Since 1992 until today as project manager and since 2014 partner at Ryf Partner Architects. From 2000 to 2017, lecturer in design and construction at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW. 2002 Founding of ARCHiTOUR.

Tours in German, English, French, Spanish.

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Olivia Bucher
Basel, Zurich

Olivia Bucher, MSc ETH Arch

Olivia Bucher, born in Bern (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the ETH with exchange semesters in São Paulo at the FAU and in Lausanne at the EPFL. Office work in Bern at Büro B and Co. Architekten, in Lausanne at Pont12 architectes and in Zurich at Ryf Partner Architekten. She works in project development at EBP in the Construction + Real Estate division. Guide since 2022 and partner at ARCHiTOUR since 2024.

Tours in German, English, French, Spanish.

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Tour in Zurich:
Zurich-West, transformation of a former industrial area

The industrial area Sulzer-Escher-Wyss has been transformed into a lively new urbanism with mixed use. To avoid big speculations, the former City Building Council Ursula Koch created the cooparative-planning-process: owners, developers and the council develop together! …and the landowners had to give land for public spaces and use, all based on new public transportation and reduced private parking. One of the first buildings opened was the culture-center Schiffbau to get people here in the evening.

Today local-station Bahnhof-Hardbrücke is used by thousands of people, eather working, leisure or living in Zurich-West.

– Duration: 4 hours
– Transport: Walking
– Services: Experienced local architect as guide
– Languages: German, English, French, Spanish or Italian
– Group size: max. 25pax per guide

Selection of included projects:

- Schiffbau, (Ortner & Ortner, 2000)
- Turbinenplatz, 2003 & Puls 5, 2004
- Toni-Areal, (EM2N, 2014)
- Hotel 25hours, (Alfredo Häberli, 2012)
- Hochhaus Hard-Turm-Park, (Gmür & Geschwentner 2012)
- Mobimo-Tower, (Diener & Diener, 2011) Pfingstweidpark, (Anton Ghiggi, 2015)
- Zölly-Hochhaus, (Meili Peter, 2015),
- Prime-Tower, (Gigon/Guyer, 2011)
- Freitag-Tower, (Spillmann Echsle, 2006)
- Viadukt, (EM2N, 2010)
- Löwenbräu-Areal, (Gigon/Guyer und Atelier WW, 2012)

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