Roche Tower 2

Roche Tower 2 (German: Roche Turm Bau 2) is an Office skyscraper in Basel, Switzerland.^[1] With a height of 205 metres (673 ft), the building replaced Roche Tower 1 as the tallest building in Switzerland after it opened on 2 September 2022.^[2]^[3]

The building was financed by pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and designed by Herzog & de Meuron. It accommodates 1,700 employees.^[4] The skyscraper is resistant towards earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale.^[5]

Gallery

^ "Roche Turm Bau 2 - The Skyscraper Center". www.skyscrapercenter.com. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ "Höchstes Gebäude der Schweiz - Neuer Roche-Turm überholt seinen «kleinen» Bruder". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2 September 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
^ "Roche inaugurates Switzerland's tallest building". Swissinfo. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ "Herzog & de Meuron unveils Basel campus for Roche healthcare". Dezeen. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
^ "Neuer Roche-Turm - So sicher ist das höchste Gebäude der Schweiz". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 9 December 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

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>100 m	Roche Tower 2 (205 m) Roche Tower (178 m) Prime Tower (126 m) Basler Messeturm (105 m) BäreTower (101 m) JaBee Tower (100 m)
<100 m	Sulzer Tower (99.7 m) Clara Tower (96 m) Hardau Tower 1 (95.4 m) Le Lignon Grande Tour (91 m) Roter Turm (90 m) Sunrise Tower (90 m) Hardau Tower 2 (86 m) Meret Oppenheim Tower (85 m) Swissôtel Zürich (85 m) Hardau Tower 3 (72 m) Hardau Tower 4 (69 m)
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