Migros Lugano

Refurbishment and extension of a shopping centre.

Project

To ensure the ongoing activities of Migros in the centre of Lugano, the refurbishment and extension work on the shopping centre required three years and was organised in several phases. Migros is the second largest supermarket chain in Switzerland.

The now modernized headquarters in Lugano is characterized by the following structural elements: the upper floors include a mixed reinforced concrete structure with free spans of up to 9 m and steel pillars, with the staircases and elevator shafts in reinforced concrete serving as stiffening cores. The basements, on the other hand, consist of bi-directionally tensioned floor slabs, external walls of reinforced concrete and steel columns.

The facade scaffolding in Via Pretorio was supported by a special steel construction.

Technical data

• Existing mixed structure of both steel construction and reinforced concrete construction
• New steel structure
• Dimension of the basements: ca. 74mx43m / 3‘200 m2
• Dimension of the upper floors: ca. 58mx28m / 1‘630 m2
• 4 Basement levels with a total 12'800 m2 and 6 upper floors with a total  of 9‘800 m2
• Technical center: ca. 54mx7.5m

Costs

CHF 20'000'000

Timeline

2013-2016

Client

UBS, Migros Ticino, lmplenia, Lugano (CH)

Services

• Prelimary design
• Construction design
• Tender design & procedure
• Construction design