Zürich West

Zurich - West is the official designation of urban development area in the west of the city center of Zurich, in which the former site boundary of the industrial district experienced a gradual conversion. Zurich West is located in district 5, west of the Aussersihler viaduct, and extending - between the Limmat and the leading away from the main train track layout - to Aargauerstrasse. Colloquially, especially around along the bridge hardware is so called.

Transformation of the district

Zurich - West offered after the departure of the processing industry in addition to the Oerlikon largest development opportunities within the city. Numerous housing developments and new buildings were completed from the 1990s, completed many of the available areas in the 2010 's. Some of the impressive old brick buildings and factories - partly involved with origins through the end of the 19th century - were in new projects. This happened for example in restructuring the shipbuilding hall into a multi-functional building with several theaters of the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the renowned jazz and music club Moods, catering establishments and homes. Even the mall Puls 5 has retained the old steel structure in the main hall, which is an industrial flair is produced.

Project areas in Zurich - West

( Years: Construction and end according to plan )

• Coop site: City West and Scala Tower; Hotel, commercial and residential spaces; 2009-2011
• Gerold - site: no project currently
• Escher- Wyss site: Escher- terraces; 2009-2011
• Hardturmstraße 's area, stadium construction and commercial buildings
• Cultural park, neighborhood center and Culture
• Löwenbräuareal (former brewery): Art Galleries, commercial and residential spaces; 2009-2013
• Maag site: Prime Tower, Business Tower, the tallest building in Switzerland; 2008-2011
• Toni-Areal (former dairy ): Colleges of Arts (ZHdK ) and applied sciences (ZHAW ); 2009-2012
• Tramdepot Hard: Shamrock skyscraper, residential and business premises
• Sagittarius area: no project currently

Already finished buildings

• Viaduct: Improvements to the arches and covered market; 2008-2010
• Bluewin Tower (firm), also known as mobimo skyscraper, Escher Wyss site, 1972, reconstruction 1999-2001
• Abaton, formerly Cinemax (cinema, residential and commercial building ), Steinfels 's area, 1993-1996 Expansion 2002-2003
• Com.West (firm) from 2000 to 2002
• Commercial building Förrlibuckstrasse 181 (firm), 2001-2002
• Novotel, Ibis and Etap ( Hotels), Escher Wyss site, 1999-2000
• Limmatwest I II (homes, businesses ), 1999-2002
• KraftWerk1 ( residential and commercial ), 1999-2001
• Pulse 5 (shopping mall, commercial building ), Escher Wyss site, 1893 ( Giesserhalle ), 2001-2004
• Residence Heinrich, office house of Joseph, Muller Martini area, 2004-2006
• Shipbuilding (theater, restaurants and Moods Jazz Club ), Escher Wyss site, 1892, reconstruction 1996-2000
• Technopark (firm), Escher Wyss site, 1989-1993
• Turbinenplatz, Escher Wyss site, 2002-2003
• Westcube ( office and commercial spaces ), 1965 ( Eichhof Beer Depot), reconstruction 2002-2003
• West Park (firm), Escher Wyss site, 2001-2002
• West Side ( residential and commercial ), Steinfels 's area, 2000-2002
• Zürcher Kantonalbank ( residential and commercial ), Steinfels 's area, 2002-2004

By Tram Zurich West ( DGR ), the official title for the new stretch of the Tram Zurich Public Transport ( VBZ) in the Zurich district Escher Wyss, the booming district of Zurich West should be put to better use. The opening takes place in December 2011. Pfingstweidstrasse At the same time, a national road Class 3E (urban express road), which extends the Autobahnast A1H in the city was redesigned. Due to the classification of the road and the Canton of Zurich and the federal government are involved in the project as well as other municipal service departments. Well that is why, despite protests by the urban motorized traffic was neglected marginalized, so that the partly six-lane motorway, the district continues to cut up instead of being transformed into an urban boulevard.

Former and current industrial facilities in Zurich - West

• Escher Wyss AG. 1889 buys the company in the lower hardware a plot of 153'800 m² on the 1891-1894 the then largest industrial plant in the Canton of Zurich originated. Maschinenfabrik alone took up an area of 15,000 m². In addition, a Boilermakers were ( shipbuilding hall ), the 6350 m² large foundry hall and other facilities. The company was liquidated in 1935, continue to be operated by the Canton of Zurich until 1937, in 1937 went to Jacob Schmidheiny and was taken over in 1966 by the Sulzer Corporation. After 1999 the company site was sold piecemeal, parts of the former Escher Wyss are still operated on the site.
• Friedrich Steinfels AG. The company was founded in 1830 as a soap factory of Friedrich Steinfels I ( 1808-1872 ) on Hirschgraben. 1895-1897 new fabrication plants are created on 30,000 m² in the lower hardware. The company hired well-known products such as Maga, Niaxa and Dish - Lav ago. Under Eric Steinfels production is being relocated in the 1990s to Wetzikon, finally sold the soap production at Henkel. Today the company still exists as a property manager.
• Lowenbrau Zurich AG. Built in 1897, the corporation of the breweries field and forest brook the brewery on the Limmat River Street, at that time the most modern factory in Switzerland with an output rate of 60,000 hl. 1898, the company " Aktienbrauerei Zurich » was renamed later in Lowenbrau Zurich AG. Taken over in 1984 by competitors Hürlimann and decommissioned, liquidated in 2001.
• Daverio AG. The company was founded in 1876 as Daverio - Henrici & Cie. established and employed in the construction of mills, conveyors, postal technology and the Post printing and logistics systems. In 1988 she was taken over by Muller Martini and performed as " Muller Martini Logistics Systems AG » Up 2000/2001, then decommissioned.
• Waste heat and power plant Josef road from waste recycling Zurich ( ERZ )
• Maag gears AG. 1913 Max Maag bought the building of the liquidated automobile factory " Safir ". In 1968 the industrial area was recently expanded and modernized. Maag was at times a world leader in the production of gearboxes for gas turbines and compressors, for ships and cement factories. Even in the eighties, the company employed more than 1,200 people. In 1990 the company was broken up, the industrial part went to foreign companies, the Hull company was renamed Maag Holding AG and was just more real estate entities. 2004 left the Maag Gear last industrial producer, the former site of the Maag gears AG.
• Otto Fischer AG
• Schoeller Hardturmstraße AG (until 1988). Founded in 1882 as a company Schoeller & Co. of Caesar Schoeller dyeing. Subsidiary of Schoeller Switzerland, which was converted by Caesar's son Walter Schoeller as a whole to Albers & Co. The factory area covers the Hardturmstraße with the " Hardturmgut ".
• Town Mill. 1873 bought the Zurich city on the site of the former Esslinger 's calico printing and leased the mill to the Maggi family. Eugene Maggi took over the operation of Zurich and built a large mill on representative Sihlquai today Swiss Mill
• Toni AG. Formerly milk processing plant, renamed Swiss Dairy Food AG in 1998, went bankrupt in 2002, the processing plant in Zurich was closed.
• Central laundry Zurich ( cantonal operation)
• Swiss carbonic acid plants. The company, founded in Bern in 1896 opened in 1912 at Hardturmstrasse a Koksverbrennungsanlage after they had to evacuate their factory at Stampfenbachstrasse for the new Kaspar Escher - house.
• Dyeing Weidmann. Built in 1885-1886 as a " piece of silk dyeing Zurich » August Weidmann on the Limmat river road near the Escher- Wyss Platz. 1893 expanded and renamed "Weidmann, contactors & Dittmar ," later by a wool dyeing « Contactors & Co AG, dyeing, bleaching and finishing, Zurich ." Following a referendum, the company sold its 1977 industrial site on the Limmat river road to the city of Zurich for about CHF 20 million The factories were demolished in 1979. On the site now houses the building trade school KV Zurich.
• Welti -Furrer AG. Transportation company since 1838 with old factory building and parking garage right in the heart of Zurich West.