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The Sulzer site is one of the main areas of urban development in Winterthur. A new, vibrant quarter is being developed where once turbines and diesel engines were built and shipped around the world. Today the site offers opportunities for people to work, study, live, shop and spend their leisure time. The existing buildings and structures are being replaced or re-utilized to provide bright and airy modern living quarters and disused industrial halls are being redeveloped as leisure or office space.
Site with an industrial history that goes back 150 years
 The beginnings of the Sulzer site date back to 1834 when Sulzer Bros. founded the first Winterthur metal foundry. The company developed in the second half of the 19th century to become an internationally important export company, occupying a site in the centre of the town comparable to the size of the historical centre of Winterthur. When the heavy industry era came to a close at the end of the 1980s, plans were developed to transform the Sulzer site into a non-industrial site.
The link between industrial history and innovation
 The number of building projects on the Sulzer site has never been more than now. Three hundred housing units and around 30,000 square metres of office and commercial/business space is currently being planned or built. At the same time, the site is to maintain its identity as the historical industrial site built up by the Sulzer family without impeding the development of new living and leisure spaces in the quarter.
The open spaces on the site have been designed by landscape architects Rotzler Krebs Partner, Winterthur and Vetsch Nipkow Partner, Zürich and are marked by a subtle and quiet approach. The typical features of a town marked by the industrial age are to be preserved and adapted to modern-day uses and requirements.
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