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Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near Zurich, Switzerland

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Center Glatt, shopping mall, hotel, and high-rise offices, Glatt, near Zurich, Switzerland

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Title devised by cataloger.
Attribution based on similarity of drawings to reference source.
Planning and design done in cooperation with the stores Globus, Jelmoli, and Migros, with rentable area of ca. 90,000 sq. meters.
Centers for the Urban Environment / Gruen. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973, pp. 140-146.
mi / 860630.
This project not mentioned in MEA nor in Art Index, 1950-1963. Tom Gates (ADE intern) gave me LISTING OF PROJECTS, which had no listing for this. LISTING OF PROJECTS AND CLIENTS IN EUROPE had the info, plus the reference source, which had final dwgs matching some of these. On E 2: "Lage, Windshelfliben Einfluss, Vermehr" on center map drawing. On E 4: river called "Glatt" (smooth). "Projektiertes Wohnungsgebiet" above the development. "ZENTRUM GLATT" on 5,6,7, 11. On 8: road to left to Zurich, road to right to Winterthur. on 9: public transporation from Neue Winterthurer Str[assse]. On 12: store names are, from left: SCHUENE, LEDER, BONBON, GRILL ROOM, souvenirs, WOOLS, UHREN & SUWELEN. on 13 at ground level, stores: Tobacconists, coffee bar, florist.
This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985.

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Date

01/01/1966
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Contributors

Victor Gruen Associates, architect
Einkaufszentrum Glatt-Zurich, developer
Elektrowatt Engineering Services, engineer
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Location

glatt
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Source

Library of Congress
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