Central switch station, Basel.

Railway switching control building in Basel. Designed by Hurzog De Meuron – architects of the Olympic stadium in Beijing.
It contorts to fit itself into a slender plot between some railway track and a road bridge. It looks perfectly faceless, as a piece of railroad infrastructure should – utilitarian and robust. It is almost windowless as what is sees is digital data.

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