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Novartis Underground Car Park and Gate, Basel, Switzerland
2003
Project
File documents an unsuccessful entry by the Foreign Office Architects for the Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate competition, Basel, Switzerland. This competition called for the design of a central entrance to the company campus, including an integrated gate, café, service facilities, 1,000 parking spaces and landscape design, for a total area of 37,000m2. Material in this file was produced between 2002 and 2004.
File includes plans, drawings, presentation material and copies of design proposals for this project by other architectural firms, including Acconci Studio, Burkhalter Sumi Architekten, Zaha Hadid Architects and Josep Lluis Mateo/MAP Architects. File also contains digital material that is currently being processed and is temporarily unavailable for consultation.
Note: A Golden Lion award received by the Foreign Office Architects during the 9th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The award was in the category of Topography, for the Foreign Office Architects' design for the Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate. See record ARCH268925.
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Documents are in English.
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This group consists of site plans, sections and an axonometic drawing by the Foreign Office Architects for the Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate (Hertus Medicas), Basel, Switzerland.
1 roll(s)
sheets: 92 × 125 cm (36 1/4 × 49 3/16 in.)
The printouts are rolled.
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
171-008-003R
Objects that have been catalogued:
This group contains materials related to the Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate (Hertus Medicas), Basel, Switzerland, including:
- A stapled set of presentation material in German, titled "Wurzeln und Ambitionen" that presents the project and proposed development site, author unknown, n.d., 7 sheets;
- 27 loose sheets of reference material, including plans for the original Novartis headquarters, source images and site plans;
- A preliminary, unbound version of a presentation booklet titled Hortus Medicus by the Foreign Office Architects, 10 pages;
- A book of presentation material titled "Novartis Campus Basel: Underground Car Park and Gate - Hortus Medicus Novartis" by F.O. Architects that includes presentation text, diagrams, computer-generated design renderings, sections and site plans, n.d., 27 sheets;
- Stapled copies of design proposals for this project by other architectural firms, including Acconci Studio, Burkhalter Sumi Architekten, Zaha Hadid Architects and two by Josep Lluis Mateo/MAP Architects.
44 printout(s)
sheets (smallest): 30 × 21.3 cm (11 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.) sheets (largest): 29.8 × 42.2 cm (11 3/4 × 16 5/8 in.)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- One of the presentation booklets is in German.
171-021-003
This file contains materials related to the Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, also referred to as "Hertus Medicas", Basel, Switzerland. It includes competition information, correspondence, research materials and copies of site plans.
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 1 of 2, see record ARCH271360 (group 2 of 2).
1 textual record(s)
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. The binder was labelled, "Novartis Underground Car Park & Parking / 054-01 / 2003".
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in English and German.
171-094-011
This file contains materials related to Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, also referred to as "Hertus Medicas", Basel, Switzerland. It includes correspondence and reference material.
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 2 of 2, see record ARCH271359 (group 1 of 2).
1 textual record(s)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in English and German.
171-094-012
This file contains materials related to Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, also referred to as "Hertus Medicas", Basel, Switzerland. It consists of a 66 page copy of a "Bau-und Planungsgesetz" [construction schedule?].
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 1 of 2, see record ARCH271362 (group 2 of 2).
1 textual record(s)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in English and German.
171-094-013
This file contains materials related to Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, also referred to as "Hertus Medicas", Basel, Switzerland. It consists of a copy of "Numerisches verzeichnis der Schweizer Normen SN und der Empfehlungen VSS" [numeric directory of Swiss standards (?)], published by the "Schweizerischer Verband der Strassen-und Verkehrsfachleute" [Swiss Association of Road and Transport Professionals(?)].
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 2 of 2, see record ARCH271361.
1 textual record(s)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in German.
171-094-014
This file contains materials related to Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, Basel, Switzerland. It includes a team, specification and fee offer for the design proposal for the "hortus medicus", Novartis Campus Basel by the F. O. Architects, official answers to project questions by Novartis and correspondence, much of which is accompanied by project notes and preliminary computer-generated design renderings.
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 1 of 2, see record ARCH271364.
1 textual record(s)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in German.
171-094-015
This file contains materials related to Novartis Underground Car Park & Gate, also referred to as "Hertus Medicas", Basel, Switzerland. It consists of reference material on green roofs and medicinal herb gardens.
- This material was removed from a ring binder for conservation purposes. This material is group 2 of 2, see record ARCH271363 (group 1 of 2).
1 textual record(s)
Basel Switzerland
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
- The material is in German.
171-094-016
Partial contents of DVD ARCH269425, originally labelled "FOA-DVD-20. foreign office architects ltd. Projects/ Competitions/ RFQs: Hutchison Prototype; Paju; Madrid Park competition; Sociopolis; Crossrail; Hastings; London Olympics". Original directory name: "NOVARTIS". Prevalent file types: .tif, .pdf, .dwg, .qxd, .xtg, .psd
1 File
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Partial contents of DVD ARCH269426. Original directory name: "NOVARTIS". Prevalent file types: .tif, .pdf, .qxd
1 File
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
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