Zentralstellwerk

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You have to love the Swiss for enlisting some of the world's best-known architects, albeit homegrown ones (Herzog & de Meuron), to design something as rudimentary as a railway signal box. The copper cladding of this hulking structure, completed in 1999, is unmissable when arriving at SBB Basel station.

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