{"id":10630,"date":"2023-02-16T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burckhardt.swiss\/project\/ciba-geigy-administration-building-1241-schoren-basel\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:24:32","slug":"ciba-geigy-administration-building-1241-schoren-basel","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/burckhardt.swiss\/en\/project\/ciba-geigy-administration-building-1241-schoren-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciba-Geigy Administration Building 1241 Schoren, Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Ciba-Geigy Administration Building 1241 Schoren, Basel\n <\/h1>\n

At the beginning of the 1970s, Burckhardt built a new administration building with a canteen for the pharmaceutical company J.R. Geigy AG. Building 1241, which contained around 900 workspaces, was responding to a sharp increase in demand for office space. Because it wasn't subject to the same spatial constraints as in Rosental, the building in Schoren offered the chance to create a new and modern office building. Thus, building 1241 became Switzerland\u2019s first open-plan office.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Architecture, general planning<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Period of time<\/strong>\n

1967\u20131972<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Start of construction<\/strong>\n

1969<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Burckhardt Architektur AG archive<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Typology<\/strong>\n

Administration<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Office<\/strong>\n

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