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Local architects win contract to develop old hospital site

A local firm of architects, Renzo Bader Architekten AG of Zug, has been selected to develop the site of the former cantonal hospital on Artherstrasse to the south of the city.
 
The company was one of four firms of architects from the canton who were invited to submit designs last August for the development and a committee under the chairmanship of Heinz Tännler, head of planning in the canton, awarded the contract to Renzo Bader of Baarerstrasse in the city.
 
Bader studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in the late Seventies and continued his studies in Venice. Before returning to Switzerland he also worked in Milan and Paris. He has designed various buildings such as the Autohaus Iten in Sihlbrugg and the Schild fashion store in Zug as well as a number of housing developments and  old people's homes in both the neighbouring canton of Zurich as well as Zug.
 
One of the tasks of the successful firm of architects will be to ensure the dimensions of the new buildings are appropriate to the size of the site and to make sure that it blends in well with its surroundings in this near-lakeside site at the foot of an incline. Various types of buildings will provide a mixture of accommodation for housing, services and businesses in the development. The south wing of the old hospital (photograph) will remain and be converted into an old people's home and a hotel with a restaurant. Then a new art gallery in a separate building is also planned but the idea of a cinema in the complex has been scrapped.
 
Mayor Dofi Müller was pleased about the new development as he said it would bring more life into the area. "All we need now is a lido on the nearby lake-front with a complex of lovely wooden buildings like they have in Zurich and then the area would really provide sustenance for body and soul."
 
If all goes well the definitive plans are expected to be presented to the city council for approval at the latest by summer of 2013.


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