Human Rights building in figures
Architect
Sir Richard Rogers (UK); Architects Consortium: Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd London, and Claude Bucher, Strasbourg
Start of work
December 1991
Completion date
December 1994
Cost
FRF 455 million — December 1994 value
Funding
Member States of the Council of Europe
Owner
Council of Europe
Site
Provided by the City of Strasbourg
Usable floor area
28,000 square metres, including:
- 860 sq. m for the Court Room
- 520 sq. m for the Commission Room
- 4,500 sq. m of other meeting rooms
- 16,500 sq. m of offices
Number of offices
Variable - 420 offices
Capacity of the offices
Maximum of 600 persons
Number of meeting rooms
11, including:
- the Court Room (260 places + 49 places for the judges + 33 places for applicants)
- the Court deliberation room (47 places + 52 additional seats)
- the Commission Room (41 places + 30 places for applicants)
- other meeting rooms (average of 47 places around table, plus 52 at the rear)
Telecommunications system
Standard
Audiovisuel equipment
Projection room with seating for 204
Cafeteria/Restaurant
180 places
Not forgetting:
- 490 kilometres of electric cables
- 5,500 lights
- 10 km of piping
- 500 metres of document conveyors
- 11 lifts/goods lifts
- 450 tonnes of metal frame
- 1,450 tonnes of concrete reinforcement
- 15,000 cubic metres of concrete
- 2,800 linear metres of fixed plant window boxes
- 4 heatpumps
- l6 separate air-handling units
as well as:
- 50 firms with 125 subcontractors
- 1,500 site workers
- 800,000 hours of building work
and:
- a team of 10 architects
- 10 engineers
- 3 economists
- 3 landscape architects
- 350 site reports
- 6,200 plans and 5 million miscellaneous documents and items of correspondence