A Vertical Campus at Dreispitz Basel

DREISPITZ, BASEL, SWITZERLAND –  We opened the doors to our new office building at Mailand-Strasse in the Dreispitz neighborhood of Basel. Comparable in scale and vitality to our long-standing Rheinschanze Campus in Basel’s St. Johann quarter, our new building at Mailand-Strasse brings over 300 people together under one roof and has been purposefully designed to create new opportunities for exchange. While our campus on the Rhine remains active on a smaller scale, Dreispitz is becoming an increasingly important part of our daily life and work.

In contrast to the organic, horizontal expansion that occurred over many years at Rheinschanze, Mailand-Strasse addresses the question of how a vertical campus can be conceived: an inspiring, communal workplace within a single, contained multi-story building.

We wanted an office that feels more like a house — with different types of spaces, orientations, and various ways of moving through it. At the same time, we wanted a building that integrates naturally into the surrounding. Dreispitz is shaped by logistics and utilitarian buildings. The architecture takes up this pragmatism while also conveying the openness and dynamism of our working environment outward into the city.