Renovation Concrete towers of the "Dolder Waldhaus" in Zurich remain standing
The striking concrete towers of the "Dolder Waldhaus" in Zurich have not become obsolete after all. The planning application shows that demolition plans have been rejected.
28.07.2024, 09:57
SDA
The owners are planning to build 87 apartments, a restaurant and a co-working space, as can be seen from the publicly available planning application. The "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" was the first to report on this. The building is set to cost around 62 million francs.
Below the smallest residential tower on the other side of the Dolderbahn, the construction of a double villa in the same architectural style is planned. Four of the 87 apartments are to be built there.
A total of 36 studios are planned, plus 22 apartments with 2.5 rooms, seven with 3.5 rooms and 15 with 4.5 rooms. There will be the most space in the "Villa". Two apartments each with 5.5 and 6.5 rooms are planned there. A 5.5-room apartment is also planned in each of the two large residential towers and in the new garden level.
Hotel plans scrapped
Originally, the owners planned a curved building in which a hotel would have continued to operate. In a 2011 statement, refurbishment was not considered to be sensible "from an economic or urban planning/architectural perspective".
The former four-star hotel has been in interim use with affordable apartments since 2017. The hotel was opened in 1975. The tall concrete buildings, which are unusual for the posh Zürichberg, were built when there was a shortage of hotel beds in Zurich.
In addition to the Waldhaus, the nearby luxury hotel Dolder Grand also belongs to Dolder Hotel AG. Its owner, Urs E. Schwarzenbach, only recently settled a tax dispute with the canton of Zurich. He is believed to have transferred a three-digit million sum.
