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Roche Tower in Basle, Switzerland
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The Roche Tower (German: Roche-Turm) is a skyscraper in the Swiss city of Basel. With a height of 178 metres, it is one of the tallest building in the country.
The building was financed by the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and designed by Herzog & de Meuron. It cost 550 million Swiss Francs to build.
Strict Swiss planning laws mean there are few skyscrapers in the country. For the construction of the building, measures against earthquakes were envisioned and it stands on 143 pillars of reinforced concrete.
It is supposed to endure an earthquake of 6.9 on the Richter scale and therefore surpass the security regulations by the Swiss government.
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