ETH LEE Zurich
Images 1–4: Georg Aerni, Zurich
The sixteen-storey office high-rise was built in the centre of Zurich on Leonhardstrasse, directly below the ETH Main Building. A spacious, representative entrance area welcomes users and visitors and guides them to the offices on the upper floors and to lecture halls on the ground floor.
New building ETH LEE Zurich
1st prize in competition
The high-rise tower reaches an eaves height of 40 m above ground level, while the base slab lies 20 m below ground level. While the basement levels were constructed entirely in cast-in-place concrete, the upper floors—except for the stabilising cores—were built using precast concrete, with ribbed slab floors and rectangular façade columns. Textured concrete elements form the building’s self-supporting façade.