{"id":12950,"date":"2019-12-18T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luechingermeyer.ch\/you-talkin-to-me-baustellenbesichtigung-du-pont\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:36:46","slug":"you-talkin-to-me-baustellenbesichtigung-du-pont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/you-talkin-to-me-baustellenbesichtigung-du-pont\/","title":{"rendered":"You talkin\u2019 to me \u2013 Du Pont\u2019s construction site viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An outstanding finale for this year\u2019s internal continuing education program awaited our staff in December. Our last lunch-break colloquium brought us to the heart of Zurich, next to the Beatenplatz, where currently the comprehensive conversion of the historic office building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luechingermeyer.ch\/project\/ruby-zuerich-umnutzung-geschaeftshaus-du-pont\/\">Du Pont<\/a> to a modern city-hotel is being undertaken, within the scope of a complex renovation project.<br \/>\nThe graffito &#8220;You talkin\u2019 to me&#8221; \u2013 a famous quote from the film &#8220;Taxi Driver&#8221; \u2013 sprayed on the wall of the old cinema hall, reminds the past renowned fame of the building for being home to a movie theatre during the last hundred years and also served as an accurate motivation motto for our team \u2013 likewise Robert De Niro \u2013 to prepare themselves for the impressive viewing of the construction site.<br \/>\nThe historic building Du Pont, with its pioneering ground-breaking structure of reinforced concrete, was constructed between 1912 and 1913 and is a work of the swiss civil engineer Morel, a Maillart\u2019s disciple. Not only could our two responsible engineers shared on-site their countless experiences, analyses and approaches to the rest of the team, but also have the complete raw, laid-open structure at their disposal to describe all the fascinating details of this hundred-year-old reinforced concrete building. The audacity and consistency with which the designers applied this new building material and at the same time engineered such an effective and flexible structural system, further justifies its preservation and commands our full respect for their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outstanding finale for this year\u2019s internal continuing education program awaited our staff in December. Our last lunch-break colloquium brought us to the heart of Zurich, next to the Beatenplatz, where currently the comprehensive conversion of the historic office building Du Pont to a modern city-hotel is being undertaken, within the scope of a complex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101013,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12952,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions\/12952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}