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collapse of Credit Suisse in 2025
Credit Suisse did not collapse in 2025; UBS completed its acquisition on June 12, 2023.
Full reasoning
This date is wrong. UBS announced and completed the acquisition of Credit Suisse in 2023, not 2025. ETH Zurich's own 2025 article about the teaching prize says the ETH Alumni Association sponsored the award for the first time that year, but that change did not follow a 2025 collapse of Credit Suisse. The premise about a 2025 collapse is therefore false.
2 sources
- UBS completes Credit Suisse acquisition | UBS Global
Zurich, 12 June 2023 - UBS has completed the acquisition of Credit Suisse today... Credit Suisse Group AG has been merged into UBS Group AG.
- Taras Gerya wins the Alumni Award for Best Teaching - Staffnet | ETH Zurich
The award was sponsored for the first time this year by the ETH Alumni Association.
A new space is expected to open on the Hönggerberg campus in 2024.
That planned Hönggerberg project did not open in 2024; ETH says the project was restarted and the building is now expected to be ready in 2030.
Full reasoning
ETH's current construction-project page says the previously planned Hönggerberg center for student and entrepreneurial initiatives was stopped in October 2023 and relaunched, delaying the project. ETH now says the building is expected to be ready in 2030. Meanwhile, ETH's Student Project House site already lists an existing SPH Hönggerberg location. So the statement that a new space was expected to open there in 2024 is outdated and inaccurate.
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- HIC - for student and entrepreneurial initiatives of the future | ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich has stopped the previously planned project and has decided to launch a new project... This will delay the project by about two years. The building is expected to be ready in 2030.
- Home - ETH SPH
locations ... SPH Hönggerberg ... HPZ F-Floor, John-von-Neumann-Weg 9, 8093 Zürich.
under Gustav Zeuner
ETH's own building-history pages attribute the main building to Gottfried Semper, not to Gustav Zeuner.
Full reasoning
ETH Zurich's current campus guide lists the main building's first construction phase as "1858 - 1864 (SEMPER)." Another ETH page says the main building was built according to Semper's plans and under his direction, together with architect Johann Caspar Wolff. Zeuner was an ETH professor and later an administrator, but ETH's own sources do not describe the building as being constructed under him.
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- Buildings on the campus Zentrum | ETH Zurich
Architecture: GOTTFRIED SEMPER, GUSTAV GULL, ALFRED ROTH & CHARLES-EDOUARD GEISENDORF. Construction period and phases: 1858 - 1864 (SEMPER).
- Semperaula has been restored and can be used again - Staffnet | ETH Zurich
The ETH Main building (HG) was built between 1859 and 1868 according to plans by Semper and under his direction and that of the architect Johann Caspar Wolff.