Zurich: Topping-out ceremony for the Vulcano project
One year after the foundation stone was laid, all three towers of the Vulcano project in Zurich-Altstetten have reached their final height of 80 meters.
On October 25, the topping-out ceremony of the 26-story building, which was jointly developed by Steiner AG and the investment group CSA Real Estate Switzerland, was celebrated. Completion is scheduled for the end of 2018.
The trio of high-rise buildings near Altstetten station, with a floor area of 58,000 square meters, will in future house around 300 rental apartments with services as well as commercial and restaurant space on the first floor. In addition, a hotel with 320 rooms is being built on the first five upper floors of the base building; it is Switzerland's first "a-ja City Resort".
Beat Schmid, overall project manager at Steiner responsible for the superstructure, says: "On average, we raised one residential floor within seven working days and are therefore very much on schedule." The interior work will be completed in the coming months, and the building is scheduled to be handed over to the client in November 2018.
The Vulcano site at Vulkanstrasse 110 in Zurich-Altstetten was formerly home to the Vulcan AG automobile and motorboat factory, which benefited from the site's good rail links as early as 1880. The new building project is now to become a new landmark for Altstetten. Edwin Müller, overall project manager of the developer CSA RES, says: "Altstetten presents itself as an up-and-coming district of Zurich. Thanks to the continuous upgrading of the working environment, not only modern commercial properties but also high-quality residential space have been built here in recent years. The innovative Vulcano project benefits from this dynamic environment while making a valuable contribution to further enhancing the attractiveness of this new trendy district." Vulcano was designed by Parisian architect Dominique Perrault.
