On the southern outskirts of Zurich, the Greencity Manegg development is situated like an island between the Sihl river and the highway. Following centuries of industrial encroachments into city space, Greencity is becoming one of Zurich’s last large urban expansions close to the city itself. 

The landscape concept contrasts the new concentration of urban housing, services and businesses, with the landscape’s natural geomorphological features. The Sihl river landscape defines western Manegg; eastern Manegg benefits from other characteristic natural features – forests and the grasslands of the Entlisberger embankment. Thus the newly erected, densely built „green city“ dovetails with the natural landscape it’s nested in. This becomes particulary evident in the open areas and the factory canal promenade that extends into sloping meadows. 

On the southern outskirts of Zurich, the Greencity Manegg development is situated like an island between the Sihl river and the highway. Following centuries of industrial encroachments into city space, Greencity is becoming one of Zurich’s last large urban expansions close to the city itself. 

The landscape concept contrasts the new concentration of urban housing, services and businesses, with the landscape’s natural geomorphological features. The Sihl river landscape defines western Manegg; eastern Manegg benefits from other characteristic natural features – forests and the grasslands of the Entlisberger embankment. Thus the newly erected, densely built „green city“ dovetails with the natural landscape it’s nested in. This becomes particulary evident in the open areas and the factory canal promenade that extends into sloping meadows.