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Swiss architect
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Female
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Birth:
4 June 1937(Lugano, Lugano District, Ticino, Switzerland)
Death:
24 October 2012(Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland)
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Biography
Flora Ruchat-Roncati (1937–2012) was a Swiss architect and professor. She was from Ticino, but spent time in Zürich and worked at ETH Zurich. She was co-winner, with her assistant Renato Salvi, of a competition to design the Transjurane highway in 1988. The highway joins the Swiss and French road networks through the Jura mountains and involves many tunnels. Eleven of the tunnels are over a kilometre long.