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Architect Santiago Calatrava has added a stone and glass office building beside the Stadelhofen Station in Zurich, which includes a multi-level bicycle parking facility.
Named the Haus zum Falken, the eight-storey building sits on a narrow, triangular plot at the eastern end of the Stadelhofen railway station, which was previously updated and expanded by Calatrava in 1990.
Calatrava designed the office building to have a "meandering composition" – cladding its steel and stone form with glass panels that highlight folds in its facade.
"The area around the Haus zum Falken is very familiar to me, as I was involved in the construction of the Stadelhofen Station here for eight years," Calatrava explained.
"Architecture here is more than functional – it is an artistic event in the city," he continued.
"The glass facade forms a meandering composition through the vertical rhythm of profiles and glass."
Solid stone was used to form the building's base, from which the glass facade rises in an arched form.
Flanked by a public square, the building's entrance is sheltered by its upper floors and complete with a glazed front framed by soft-edged stone pillars.
"Subtle stone details extend toward the lower edges of the glass facade, establishing a dialogue between the grounded plinth and the glass body above," Calatrava said.