Main Building
The CERN Main Building, also known as Building 60, was constructed in at the end of the 1950s[1]. It is designed by the Zurich architect Rudolf Steiger.
In the Main Building, one finds formal influences from Le Corbusier, Auguste Perret, and also Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom Peter Steiger studied in Arizona in 1950–1951. The assertive volumes, the dialogue between verticality and horizontality, and the interior spatiality characterized by mushroom columns particularly recall Wright’s Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower (1932–1939).[2]
The Maim Building was fully renovated from spring 2023 to autumn 2025.[3]
Jérôme Wohlschlag featured CERN and the Main Building in his dissertation for his Master’s degree in architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. [4][5]
References
- ↑ Construction of the Main Building, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2014183.
- ↑ Les débuts du CERN, ville scientifique, https://web.archive.org/web/20240915125910/https://www.espazium.ch/fr/actualites/les-debuts-du-cern-ville-scientifique.
- ↑ B60 renovation project, https://web.archive.org/web/20241012170008/https://sce-dep.web.cern.ch/building-60
- ↑ Wohlschlag, J. (2015). L'ensemble du Main Building au CERN à Genève, Peter Steiger et Rudolf Steiger architectes, Carl Hubacher, Fietz et Hauri ingénieurs, 1954-1960, https://repository.cern/records/9j1w5-cax50.
- ↑ CERN, & Jordan Juras. (2011). Looking at CERN from a different perspective. In CERN Bulletin (Numbers 30/2011-31/2011, p. 7), https://repository.cern/records/4swzs-mc046.