Roche Building 2
Site development F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Herzog & de Meuron first began working together in the 1990s. Since then, over the past three decades, an entire series of buildings has emerged, most recently Building 1, an office building rising to a height of 178m. It was the tallest in Switzerland upon its completion. The investments Roche has been making clearly demonstrate the firm‘s commitment to its headquarters in the city of Basel. Building 2, even taller than Building 1 at a height of 205 m, is a logical consequence of this commitment with its concentration of workplaces in the Wettstein neighborhood. The development plan devised by Herzog & de Meuron in 2014 provides the urban guidelines for the project and also underlies the development of the northern sector of the site. The zoning plan was approved in 2016, paving the way for Building 2 and the research and development center, pRED. The current location of production and research at the Rheinknie, the bend in the Rhine, dates back to Swiss architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg’s masterplan of the 1930s. He designed the checkerboard structure in which the footprint of Building 2 is embedded.
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