Swiss TPH moves into new headquarters on the Baselink site

At the new headquarters, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) is moving around 700 employees and students, who were previously spread across seven properties around Socinstrasse in Basel, into one location. The Belo Horizonte building, designed by Basel architects Kunz and Mösch, offers 725 workplaces and 150 laboratory spaces on an area of around 13,000 square meters.

In addition to the multi-space office landscapes and laboratories, the five-story building also houses seminar rooms, a library and a cafeteria. The cost of the building was CHF 114 million plus CHF 13 million for the interior. The project was financed by the two Basel cantons, the Swiss government, Swiss TPH's own funds and the R. Geigy Foundation. Belo Horizonte was constructed under building rights as a building of the University of Basel, with which Swiss TPH is associated.

With the establishment of Swiss TPH, an important anchor institution has arrived on the Baselink site, said the mayor of Allschwil, Nicole Nüssli-Kaiser, at the opening ceremony. The area in Bachgraben is to develop into a life science cluster, and companies such as Abbott, Basilea Pharmaceutica and Johnson & Johnson have already settled in the immediate vicinity of the Swiss TPH. In total, up to 10,000 new jobs will be created on the Baselink site. (ah)