Basler Messeturm

The Basel Exhibition Tower is at 105 meters and 31 floors completed in 2011 after the Prime Tower in Zurich the second tallest habitable building in Switzerland.

Description and History

The tower is owned by the Swiss Prime Site AG, Olten, and by its subsidiaries Wincasa AG, Basel Branch Farms. It was designed by the architect community " Morger & Degelo & Daniele Marques » and built between July 2001 and October 2003. The land area is about 1230 square meters, the total weight of approximately 50,000 tons. Architecturally, the building is in the tradition of modern tower blocks, the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, for example, founded the Seagram Building in New York.

The building is part of the exhibition site in Basel and stands at the exhibition center, north of the Rose Valley facility. Some rooms of the tower used during operation of the event as a press center. In addition, it provides space for conferences and events. In addition to offices of the fair tower houses the four-star hotel " Ramada Plaza Hotel Basel", restaurants, and the prospect bar " Bar Rouge " in 31 floor.

Every year the trade fair tower instead of a flight of stairs, run to the individual athletes, groups, and fire-fighting units by the staircase from the ground floor to the top floor.

2006 jumped the known base jumper Ueli Gegenschatz from the roof of the tower.

More high-rise buildings named Fair Tower are located in Frankfurt am Main and Cologne. (→ see fair tower (Frankfurt am Main), or Fair Tower Cologne).