10.06.2011
Modern production building completed next to Stuttgart's Funkhaus.
Following a construction period of around two years, the first editorial teams have moved into the SWR's new building in Stuttgart. Drees & Sommer has supported Südwestrundfunk ('Southwest Broadcasting', SWR) throughout the entire project: from feasibility studies and architectural competition to planning and implementation. During the building construction period from 2008 to 2011, the experts - acting as a 'temporary construction department' - were commissioned to undertake project control, handing the building over to the user on schedule and within budget.
The new building next to the SWR Funkhaus in eastern Stuttgart brings together several departments previously scattered across the Stuttgart area. Current planning provides for several state-of-the-art television studios in addition to editorial rooms, offices and radio studios on a floor area of some 22,000 square meters.
In addition to cost savings for SWR as the result of faster, more efficient internal processes, the new building will substantially reduce energy consumption - with the result that in the long term, the building is more economical than the alternative scenario of rehabilitating the television building in Park Berg, which stems from the 1960s. The construction cost of the new building, which will accommodate 480 employees, totals some EUR 86 million. Regular operation is scheduled to commence in January 2012.
Photo credit: SWR
