Prime Tower Zurich
Images 1–2 and 4–5: Thies Wachter, Zurich
At 126 m total height and 36 floors, the Prime Tower is the tallest building in the city of Zurich. It is used as an office building with a restaurant on the top floor.
New construction Prime Tower, Zurich
Award for good buildings of the City of Zurich, 2011–2015
The structural system of the Prime Tower consists of a concrete skeleton structure with flat slabs and in-situ concrete core walls and high-performance concrete columns. The vertical loads are transferred via columns arranged predominantly at the building perimeter and via the three central cores. The cores and columns transfer their forces through the load-distributing base slab to the bored piles embedded in the Limmat gravel, with piles and base slab acting together as a combined foundation.