Once more in my life I failed on my ambitious guidelines: I tried to get up at 6.30 am, but when I was in the kitchen, it was already 7:21. Later at the next day I figured out that my digital alarm clock was ringing at 6:30 pm. Probably also some kind of a Freudian slip.
Swiss-Swiss hermeticism.
And existentialism: right for the cars, left for me.
I watched it for a longer time - but I still didn't have the slightest desire to eat it.
Like it's written on the cottage: the city's forest.
Right know I'm here - but by looking at the tower on top of the next hill with a clear vision of my exhausting future.
A tenement with an interesting shape from below. I called it 'the rock'.
But most of Adliswil's tenements are probably from the 1950ies. Almost unbelievable today for about 8 apartments only 3 garages, maybe in a close future that will fit again.
"The rock" from behind.
How to distinguish and to disguise something in the same move.
A typical countryside hippie.
I'm not getting tired to tell everyone: it's more as a pity that this restaurant and especially it's garden is closed.
(Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam)
"The rock" from above.
I just thought that trees are probably the most exceptional life form on earth. But just some parts of a second later I understood that we humans are also very well in it to place them on exceptional places.
1000 years and more after Cato also the Zurich folks proved some persistence with destroying all manifestations of foreign power in proximate distance to their city. This is the rest of the castle Balderen.
To gain what?
The mount Albis pretends to be nature - but in real it's an enormous park, much bigger is the Central Park in New York
Yes, a park with a central direct connection to the city's transport system.
Unexpected pleasures on a countryside walk.
A plausible statement for uninterrupted roofs.
Quality in arts is something very difficult to measure. But there are some indications. Like "arts" and "tea" are such kind of copulations that fits only hardly well together. Very natural combinations are "arts" and "alcohol". You know, it's like Nordic Walking and hiking, from a certain distance it looks almost like the same, but the mind behind is like opposite.
"ATTENTION: WATER CONSERVATION AREA"
Does that mean any harm to me?
The most exciting discovery of the day: the "Albisstübli", well hidden some meters underneath the ridge... with full facility, a fire place, even a flagpole - if there isn't the possibility to rise a national flag, real Swiss can't be happy on a party.
The view.
The drink.
Sanitation.
A typical plant like they used it on the star trek sets when captain James Tiberius Kirk went for a walk on extraterrestrial planets surface.
Fashionable door design.
For real: a forest kindergarten.
After all the hours I spend already in the forest, I made good friend with some of its residents, so we meet for chats. This time at the wilderness park at Langenberg.
Meaning good might be the opposite of doing good.
Actually the most wild being at the wilderness park is the little creek. (But I have to admit, compared with other captured animals these ones have well conditions).
Sometimes architects have the trouble that they build a wall without any window in it. This causes a a great nervoussnes in them and they make the most crazy and creative design in their live.
Others stay very, very cool.
Time to remind a very forgotten song
hmmm, there are some things they should better remain forgotten.
Lovely interior design.
At the first sight a typical old factory what's refurnished to be usable for post modern needs.
But according some records it was the second biggest 'Internierungslager' (detention centre) in Switzerland for Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied countries during WWII: www.geschichtsverein.ch/artikel_sieber.pdf.
It's not my intention to tell that something horrible happen there inside in that time - but I wonder about my school education: we had history lessons about Switzerland in the war times, but as far I can remember, we never heard just one word about the involvement/reaction of Switzerland to the Holocaust.
First subtract everything what's without reason or what's not needed, and you will be surprised, how boring this houses are.
The winner of the 'worst design award' of this day.
It's not about that the balcony could be made in any better way - I suspect that everything what the designer of this house stays for - what he is thinking - is horribly wrong.
Spongebob car port.
The average citizen of Kilchberg is rich, the weapon of choice to protect this wealth is a tall hedge.
The best way to get rich in Kilchberg with an own business is to cut the rich peoples hedges.
"In the beauty" (male)
And it was truly smelling like tasty chocolate there.
The "Seestrasse" (lake street) is a very good example for the principle, that the lost opportunity for planning is guiding to boredom: While the richer people bought the nicer areas at the lake shore, to build there fancy mansions behind hermetic fences, the people with not the same level of richness had to buy apartements left of the street in houses that looks like they are greedy to get a look into the garden.
Likable exceptional case from the rule 1:
It looks like English men are not only aliens in New York.
Likable exceptional case from the rule 2:
Some lots stay empty from unknown reasons (I bet nobody was interested in this one because there is a massive bunker underneath that bench) so the community made little parks there.
One of the more interesting moments at the Seestrasse.
Lyrics for the masses.
When the Phantom of the Opera would be a house.
Behind the wooden curtain is Zurich.
It's a self education video: I asked myself so many times how they make that rubber hay balls.
It was in the 1960ies when there was the last wave of church building in Switzerland. Since that time the society didn't found such nice task anymore to occupy architects.
That's a serious problem: there is nothing more simple as to build a church, mostly they have just to build a hall for a certain number of people, with a stage in the east and an entrance at the west, additionally a tower to hang bells... that's a very good basement to build everlasting monuments.
What might be the churches of today? Spas? Way to complicated, water is like the natural born enemy of any construction. Museums probably, but permanent exhibitions of art needs the much better conditions as people do, who are only once in the year in the space.
The form is very dislikeable, but at least they had many thoughts about the way of welcoming people.
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