News and Media Releases

February 2023

Expo 2025: Spirit of Innovation at the Swiss Pavilion in Osaka

Spherical spheres will form the Swiss pavilion “LA SUISSE ENCHANTÉE” at Expo 2025 and represent an example of sustainable architecture. With a lot of Expo experience and innovative ideas, NUSSLI is realizing the planned lightest pavilion of the Expo together with Manuel Herz Architekten and BELLPRAT PARTNER on behalf of Presence Switzerland.

January 2023

Football Stadium Becomes Handball World Championship Arena

For the Men's Handball World Championship 2023, Stockholm's Tele2 Arena was transformed into a huge handball arena with 22,000 spectator seats. With a temporary grandstand, event construction specialist NUSSLI created a perfectly fitting World Cup arena with an immediate match feeling in the stadium.

November 2022

The first eight-segment sports hall in Europe

Many sports halls can be divided into three, four, five or even six hall segments. Eight, on the other hand, are exceptional. Europe's first eight-segment gymnasium is now being built in Monheim am Rhein. Construction will begin in the spring of 2023 with NUSSLI as total contractor.

October 2022

Big Air Festival Chur 2022 - The Kick for Flights of Fancy

Once again, the freeski and snowboard world looked to Chur. And everything was centered around the 140 m long and 40 m high ramp, which kicks freeskiers and snowboarders up to 24 m into the air. On the stage next to it, Deichkind, Kraftklub, Busta Rhymes and other acts heated up the audience. NUSSLI planned and constructed the ramp, the music stage and other festival infrastructures for the event in October at the Obere Au sports complex in Chur.

October 2022

Sustainability in Stadium Construction

"White Elephants" are the names given to sports venues that are left as ghost towns after their use. Why? Because they were often planned for just one event and are completely oversized for the subsequent use of the local population, as no thought was given to further use or deconstruction. With the "National Athletics Center" for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 2023 in Budapest, NAPUR Architekten and NUSSLI show that modern stadium construction can function differently today – with foresight and sustainability.

September 2022

Bavaria Sounds: Professionals are planning and building for the three largest concert events in Germany

In 2022, concerts will finally take place again - really big concerts. The three absolute biggest in Germany took place in Munich in August. All eyes were on Andreas Gabalier, Helene Fischer and Robbie Williams. Event specialist NUSSLI was responsible for the grandstands.

July 2022

A Media Centre in the Bavarian Alps - Planned and Built in a Resource-Saving Way by Events Specialist NUSSLI

News from Bavaria went around the world in June: The G7 met in Schloss Elmau. Almost 3,000 international media representatives were accredited to cover the event. For them, POOLgroup was commissioned by the Federal Press Office to build a media center with perfect working conditions on the Hausberg car park in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. POOLgroup had tasked NUSSLI with the realisation of the substructure and the interior fittings.

June 2022

Swiss Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival Pratteln in the Basel-Country 2022 with the 22nd Festival Arena by NUSSLI

The first time in 1961 in Zug and since then without interruption, NUSSLI's construction of the arena has contributed to the "Eidgenössische" (Swiss Federal) and its unforgettable moments at the festival filled with customs, excitement and great encounters. For the Swiss Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival (ESAF), which will take place from 26 to 28 August 2022 in Pratteln in the Basel region, NUSSLI is planning and building the festival arena as a temporary structure for the 22nd time.