{"id":8144,"date":"2026-02-16T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8144\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:07:20","slug":"santiago-calatrava-adds-angular-glass-office-building-to-zurich-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8144\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Calatrava adds angular glass office building to Zurich station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architect Santiago Calatrava<\/a> has added a stone<\/a> and glass office<\/a> building beside the Stadelhofen Station in Zurich<\/a>, which includes a\u00a0multi-level bicycle parking facility.<\/p>\n

Named the Haus zum Falken, the eight-storey building sits on a narrow, triangular plot at the eastern end of the Stadelhofen railway station<\/a>, which was previously updated and expanded by Calatrava<\/a> in 1990.<\/p>\n

Calatrava designed the office building to have a “meandering composition” \u2013 cladding its steel and stone form with glass panels that highlight folds in its facade.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorSantiago Calatrava has completed an office building beside the Stadelhofen Station in Zurich<\/p>\n

“The area around the Haus zum Falken is very familiar to me, as I was involved in the construction of the Stadelhofen Station here for eight years,” Calatrava explained.<\/p>\n

“Architecture here is more than functional \u2013 it is an artistic event in the city,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“The glass facade forms a meandering composition through the vertical rhythm of profiles and glass.”<\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a>Stone, steel and glass were used for the structure<\/p>\n

Solid stone was used to form the building’s base, from which the glass facade rises in an arched form.<\/p>\n

Flanked by a public square, the building’s entrance is sheltered by its upper floors and complete with a glazed front framed by soft-edged stone pillars.<\/p>\n

“Subtle stone details extend toward the lower edges of the glass facade, establishing a dialogue between the grounded plinth and the glass body above,” Calatrava said.<\/p>\n

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A curved motif extends to the interior, which opens up to a double-height lobby adorned by a wooden relief and expansive ceiling light.<\/p>\n

From here, elevators provide access to the four floors of office space above, and is paired with a staircase provided at the building’s opposite entrance.<\/p>\n

At this end, the building opens up to a skylit, four-storey atrium where the sculptural stairwell serves as a “dynamic centrepiece that connects all levels”.<\/p>\n

\"StaircaseA sculptural stairwell features within the building<\/p>\n

Each of the upper levels offer column-free office spaces lit by openings across the glazed facade.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a three-storey public bicycle parking facility provides space for 800 bikes below ground and is accessed via a ramp at ground level.<\/p>\n

The Haus zum Falken is complete with a green roof equipped with photovoltaic panels, while the facade acoustics render noise pollution “virtually imperceptible” on the interior, according to the studio.<\/p>\n

\"OfficeIt contains four floors of column-free office space<\/p>\n

Recently, Calatrava’s steel and glass Gare de Mons station designed as a “monumental bridge” reached completion in Belgium<\/a> and Holloway Studio unveiled images of its redesign of the UK passenger terminal for LeShuttle’s Channel Tunnel service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Ingo Rasp<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architect Santiago Calatrava has added a stone and glass office building beside the Stadelhofen Station in Zurich, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5735,6352,4078,494,6353,1725,17,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-8144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-glass","9":"tag-office-architecture","10":"tag-santiago-calatrava","11":"tag-sectionall","12":"tag-sectionarchitecture","13":"tag-stone","14":"tag-switzerland","15":"tag-zurich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}