Basel: Apartments at the former SRF site
When Swiss Radio and Television SRF moves to its new location near the SBB train station, the old studio site on the Bruderholz hill will be rebuilt. Now the winner of the architectural competition has been announced.
The SRF studio in Basel is expected to move into the Meret Oppenheim high-rise at the end of 2018, which is currently being built according to plans by Herzog & de Meuron next to the SBB train station in the Gundeldinger district.
This will free up the site on the Bruderholz hill, where the SRF studio is located today, for subsequent use. SRG Region Basel, as the landowner, therefore wants to develop the site, which is located at Novarastrasse 2 in the middle of a residential neighborhood, with apartments.
An architectural competition, to which five teams of planners were invited, was won by the team from the Basel architectural firm Morger Partner and Fontana Landschaftsarchitekten.
The winning project consists of two three-story row buildings on Schäublinstrasse and Marignanostrasse. Due to the topography on the slope, the individual houses of the two rows are laid out like stairs. A coherent green space is to be created between the new buildings.
The next step will be to revise the project in certain areas, according to SRG Region Basel. From August 2017, the canton will prepare the development plan on the basis of this project. At the end of 2018, the rezonings and the development plan are to be made available to the public. The realization is then planned from 2020.
Meinrad Morger's office is responsible for several residential projects in Basel, among others in the Erlenmatt quarter and in the Width Quarter. The renowned architectural firm also designed the Messeturm in Basel.
