Primeo Energy Kosmos in Basel

 - Jakob Schoof

For their 125th anniversary, the Swiss energy provider Primeo aimed at creating a building comprised of 70 % recycled and reused materials in order to complement the company's own electricity museum. The architectural and general planning office Rapp also renovated the existing neighbouring building from 1932, which formerly housed a meter workshop. The new and the old structures together constitute the Primeo Energy Cosmos. A stand-alone building among other stand-alone buildings, it is the capstone to the company site in Münchenstein, southeast of Basel.

Primeo Energy Kosmos in Basel
With its multiply branching steel frame, the new building displays a completely different exterior than the neighbouring existing building from 1932, used as the company museum. © Beat Ernst