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High on drugs - Basel

Preface

Pharmaceuticals giants Roche and Novartis are both based in Basel, where they turn in billion- euro profits every year. But now their hard-fought commercial struggle is being matched by an architectural rivalry that will result in the building of the tallest tower in Switzerland.

issue 02 . volume 01 . April 2007

Credits

Photographer: Yann Mingard
Writer: Marcus Field



01 :: The Novartis site, with the two newest buildings in the middle ground. On the left is Forum 3 by architect Roger Diener, and on the right is the neat glacial building by Japanese architects Sanaa. Behind is the old Novartis tower

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