Roche Tower 2 | |
Native Name: | Roche Turm Bau 2 |
Native Name Lang: | German |
Location: | Basel, Switzerland |
Address: | Grenzacherstrasse 124 |
Location Town: | --> |
Status: | Completed |
Start Date: | 2018 |
Opened Date: | 2 September 2022 |
Destruction Date: | --> |
Owner: | Hoffman-La Roche |
Cost: | CHF 550 million |
Floor Count: | 50 |
Building Type: | Office building |
Architectural: | 205m (673feet) |
Architecture Firm: | Herzog & de Meuron |
Unit Count: | --> |
Roche Tower 2 (German: Roche Turm Bau 2) is a skyscraper in the Swiss city of Basel.[1] With a height of, the building replaced Roche Tower 1 as the tallest building in Switzerland after it opened on 2 September 2022.[2] [3]
The building was financed by pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and designed by Herzog & de Meuron. It accommodates 1,700 employees.[4] The skyscraper is resistant towards earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale.[5]