Lucerne Station Hall

Luzern

IN SHORT

Stier and reworked by Hans Auer, was destroyed by fire in 1971. The competition for the new complex, organized by Swiss Federal Railways, was won by Amman and Bauman in 1975. In 1983, the Swiss Federal Railways commissioned Calatrava to produce a design for the entrance hall and portico of the new station. His light-weight glazed structure, which responds to the lakeside site on the fringe of the old town, is conceived as a distinctive and totally independent volume extending the length of the station facade.

YEAR

1983 - 1989

ADDRESS

Bahnhofplatz 1
6003 Luzern

AWARDS

  • Canton of Lucerne Award for Good Building 1983–1993

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