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Richti Wallisellen is a
It's the beating heart of Richti shopping.
Here is a fountain, public benches, and several food businesses.
Andulino is an Italian restaurant specializing on pizza and grill.
Nooch is an Asian restaurant, specializing on Chinese and Thai food. It also incorporates Negishi, which offers Japanese specialities.
Sahar is a high-end Indian restaurant.
Schokolato is a gourmet Italian BAR GELATERIA, specializing in coffee, ice-cream/gelato and small lunch.
Zapote is Mexican-Californian restaurant, specializing on salads and burritos.
Richti Shopping Official web site
Wiel Arets Project
Buildings and structures in the canton of Zürich Shopping malls in Switzerland {{Switzerland-struct-stub
Richti Wallisellen is a mixed-use development
Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some ...
(residential, commercial, offices) on former industrial land situated between Wallisellen railway station
Wallisellen is a railway station in Switzerland, in the municipality of Wallisellen. It is located on the Zurich to Winterthur railway line, and is to the Zurich side of the junction with the Wallisellen to Rapperswil via Uster line.
The railw ...
and the 1970s-era Glattzentrum
The Glattzentrum, more formally known as the Einkaufszentrum Glatt or Glatt shopping centre, is a shopping mall located in the Glatt Valley close to the Switzerland, Swiss Zurich, city of Zurich. Politically, the mall is situated in the Wallise ...
indoor shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...
.
The master plan of the new complex was designed by architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951, in Rome, Italy) is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian
An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as ...
on a model of an Italian city center.
Richti Wallisellen is made of six five-storey high buildings and one 72-meter-high glass high-rise.
Four buildings are for residential purpose. The first two, already inhabited, host private apartments and are respectively designed by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951, in Rome, Italy) is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian
An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as ...
(Konradhof) and SAM Architekten (Escherhof). The second two host apartments for rent, and are both designed by Diener & Diener
Diener & Diener is an architectural firm established in Basel, Switzerland in 1942. The second generation of Diener & Diener has been active since 1980. The Basel office, along with its subsidiary in Berlin, has been headed by Roger Diener, since 2 ...
.
The remaining two buildings are for offices.
The first office building hosts the new headquarter of Allianz
Allianz ( , ) is a German multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management.
The company is one of the world's largest insurers and financial services groups. The ...
Suisse from end 2013, and is designed by Wiel Arets Architects
Wiel Arets (, born ) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer and the former Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in the United States of America. Arets was pr ...
. This is a much discussed and highly technological complex, and is composed of 2 glass buildings connected by bridges.
The second office building will host the new headquarter of UPC Cablecom
UPC was the largest cable operator in Switzerland with around 1.1 million residential and business customers and was formed in 1994 through the merger of several cable operators. UPC has been a subsidiary of Liberty Global since 2005.
On 27 Febru ...
from end 2014, and is designed by Max Dudler Architekten.
The complex has several public gardens with recreational areas for kids and a small Japanese garden in the internal court of the Allianz low building. All gardens are for public use, and open to public.
The Richtiarkade is the main artery of the complex, and has Richtiplatz at its center.
Buildings
Richti Shopping
On the ground floor of the Richti Wallisellen - along the Richtiarkade - there are stores and services. Most of the stores focus on food, services and fashion. The main food court is at the center of the open-air complex on Richtiplatz.Richtiplatz
It's the beating heart of Richti shopping.
Here is a fountain, public benches, and several food businesses.
Andulino is an Italian restaurant specializing on pizza and grill.
Nooch is an Asian restaurant, specializing on Chinese and Thai food. It also incorporates Negishi, which offers Japanese specialities.
Sahar is a high-end Indian restaurant.
Schokolato is a gourmet Italian BAR GELATERIA, specializing in coffee, ice-cream/gelato and small lunch.
Zapote is Mexican-Californian restaurant, specializing on salads and burritos.
References
External links
Richti Shopping Official web site
Wiel Arets Project
Buildings and structures in the canton of Zürich Shopping malls in Switzerland {{Switzerland-struct-stub