WTO, Geneva soon a new face Photo courtesy ®Jez S at flickr

WTO in Geneva will soon have a new face. Photo courtesy ®Jez S at flickr

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The results are in: a German firm will be in charge of the project to renovate the Centre William Rappard of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which, according to officials, will be “unobstrusive and respectful of the environment.”

In 2008 the WTO made a call for bids for the renovation of the centre. In total, 115 projects were presented. Seven were shortlisted.

The German company Wittfoht Architekten won the contract and will be in charge of the CHF130 million renovation project which includes the construction of an adjacent building to be completed by 2011.

The Swiss government pledged as a donation CHF70 million to the project, while loaning the WTO the remaining CHF60 million.

The original Villa Rappard, now a school, was built starting in 1785.

The project is part of a larger display of planned changes in the area until 9 March at the International Convention Center in Geneva.

Posted by Laila Rodriguez on 20 February 2009 at 15:53 | permalink
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
        Post Comment  
 

News story, GenevaLunch, 20 February 2009.

Filed under: International organizations

Tags: , , ,

We are happy to have your comments, which are approved before they appear: please remember to be courteous and brief. We accept only comments directly related to an article. We do not accept comment spam - messages sent to more than one site. We do not publish comments if the e-mail address is not legitimate. Thank you!

Comments

Older comments

  1. GenevaLunch » Blog Archive » It’s official: The WTO to have bigger home in Geneva Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 8:15 am

    [...] sites in Geneva had been studied, at a cost of CHF150,000, but the solution of expanding on the present site was chosen as the most cost-effective and quickest, since there is no need to buy additional [...]

  2. GenevaLunch » Blog Archive » WTO extension will not restrict access to lake Says:
    May 8th, 2009 at 9:06 am

    [...] “WTO: new building will be respectful and unobtrusive,” GenevaLunch 20 February 2009 Posted by :: Sean Ecker on 8 May [...]

  3. GenevaLunch » WTO to get additional CHF50 million Says:
    May 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

    [...] stories: New building will be respective and unobtrusive, TdG Posted by :: Laila Rodriguez on 27 May [...]

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.