{"id":41444,"date":"2025-07-14T17:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/zweite-lebenszeit-fuer-das-usz-west\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:29:57","slug":"zweite-lebenszeit-fuer-das-usz-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/zweite-lebenszeit-fuer-das-usz-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Second lifetime for the USZ WEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usz.ch\/en\/\">University Hospital Zurich<\/a> is getting ready for the future with a complete structural renewal planned over the coming decades. A large portion of the existing buildings will be demolished and replaced by new constructions. One building, however, plays a special role: the USZ WEST building. Constructed between 1941 and 1953 by the architects H\u00e4feli Moser Steiger as a pioneering project of &#8220;healing architecture&#8221;, this building is set to be preserved and undergo comprehensive refurbishment after 70 years of use. Due to its high architectural and historical value and its status as a cantonal heritage-listed building, demolition is not an option.<br \/>\nIn the corresponding planner selection procedure, the team of <a href=\"https:\/\/schneiderschneider.ch\/\">Schneider &amp; Schneider Architekten<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enf.ch\/\">Ernst Niklaus Fausch Partner<\/a> was awarded the contract. \u201cThe proposal demonstrates a holistic and thorough architectural and technical engagement with the building [\u2026]. The described balancing act between modern, flexible usage requirements and constructional as well as energy-related goals appears successful on a conceptual level.\u201d This recognition was also well received by the structural engineers involved from L\u00dcCHINGER MEYER PARTNER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Hospital Zurich is getting ready for the future with a complete structural renewal planned over the coming decades. A large portion of the existing buildings will be demolished and replaced by new constructions. One building, however, plays a special role: the USZ WEST building. Constructed between 1941 and 1953 by the architects H\u00e4feli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101013,"featured_media":41422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41444","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\/41444","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=41444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41446,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions\/41446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lmp-ing.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}