GLC Building ETH Zürich / Boltshauser Architekten

The GLC building of ETH Zurich serves teaching and research at the interface between health sciences and technology. It is part of the dense conglomeration of buildings that make up Zurich’s university quarter and fits into an ensemble originating in the Semper Polytechnic and university building from the middle of the 19th century and which has evolved continuously to this day. As part of the 2012/2020 Real Property Strategy, the ETH decided to build a new center for the departments of health sciences and technology, information technology, and electrical engineering at the site of the hydraulic engineering, hydrology and glaciology research institute (VAW), holding a competition in 2010/2011 for this building which is now referred to by the abbreviation GLC.