Our office towers Building 1 and Building 2

By spring 2022, our second high-rise office building, Building 2, will be completed on Grenzacherstrasse, with an investment volume of around CHF 550 million. Together with Building 1, which was inaugurated in 2015, it will form the new centre of our Group headquarters in Basel. Building 2 gives us the opportunity to bring many employees who are currently scattered across the city of Basel back to our site, thereby strengthening inter-team and cross-functional collaboration and innovation. The two office towers are highly energy-efficient buildings, heated with waste heat and cooled with groundwater, for example.
Impressions of Buildings 1 and 2
Same volume, greater efficiency
From the outside, Building 2 looks virtually identical to today’s Building 1. While the two high-rise office buildings are siblings, however, they are not twins:
Building 1 | Building 2 |
Completion: 2015 | Completion: spring 2022 |
178 meters | 205 meters |
41 floors + 3 basements | 50 floors + 3 basements |
Up to 2400 employees |
Up to 3100 employees (Office concept without fixed workstation) |
CHF 550 million investment | CHF 550 million investment |
Cafeteria, staff restaurant, top floor lounge, auditorium (500 seats), breast feeding room | Café bar in the lobby, bistro with terrace, top floor lounge, bicycle cellar with showers and cloakrooms, breast feeding room |