Basel Architecture

Basel is a good city for architecture, taking its civic responsibilities seriously, now as always in the past.   Here are some things I saw.

The Münster:-

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The entrance to the Natural History Museum:-

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Art nouveau detailing on the tram stop on Aeschenplatz:-

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The neo-baroque main railway station, opened in 1907:-

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The still classical, but more modernist Badische Bahnhof, designed by Robert Curjel and Karl Moser and opened in 1913:-

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The first of the BIS towers, built by Martin Burkhardt in 1976:-

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Mario Botta’s 1995 neo-classical BIS building on Aeschenplatz:-

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And, lastly, Herzog and de Meuron’s Central Switching Station from 1999:-

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