Panel Dreispitz – The city needs free space! & Opening Basel Pavillon

Under the title “Stadt braucht Freiraum!” (The city needs free space!), the Forum Dreispitz addresses the transformation of the formerly closed-off bonded customs warehouse in south Basel into a new urban quarter. The current development activities are expanding the existing commercial area to include new uses such as culture, education and housing. Made of reused building components, the temporary Basel Pavillon on the decommissioned track field in the southern part of Dreispitz site demonstrates both the challenges and potential solutions in the discourse on energy and resource consumption and public open spaces in cities.