They killed so many beautiful buildings in Zürich and replaced them with ugly concrete/steel/glass cubes. Some people in those days really had “bad eyes”.
In fribourg it’s worse I don’t even have enough fingers to count all the beautiful buildings they razed just to put some shitty concrete ones the city
Damn what a loss
What a shame!! How does it look today from around the same point? (Sorry, don’t know Züri too well)
I really really hate the people that changed our cities architecture. Luckily Bern was mostly preserved but we also have some terrible examples. I mean, who thought it would be a good idea to cut a hole into a big sandstone building and fill it with some 70s garbage. It was a good decision though to build a new main station ngl.
Good thing they got rid of that fussy thing.
It actually reminds me design wise a lot of the original Palais de Trocadero in Paris that met a similar fate and on a similar timeline (built for the World’s Fair in 1878 and demolished in 1935).
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Why’d they raze it?
They killed so many beautiful buildings in Zürich and replaced them with ugly concrete/steel/glass cubes. Some people in those days really had “bad eyes”.
In fribourg it’s worse I don’t even have enough fingers to count all the beautiful buildings they razed just to put some shitty concrete ones the city
Damn what a loss
What a shame!! How does it look today from around the same point? (Sorry, don’t know Züri too well)
I really really hate the people that changed our cities architecture. Luckily Bern was mostly preserved but we also have some terrible examples. I mean, who thought it would be a good idea to cut a hole into a big sandstone building and fill it with some 70s garbage. It was a good decision though to build a new main station ngl.
Good thing they got rid of that fussy thing.
It actually reminds me design wise a lot of the original Palais de Trocadero in Paris that met a similar fate and on a similar timeline (built for the World’s Fair in 1878 and demolished in 1935).
too bad it‘s gone
I get it tho old buildings are hard to upkeep
I’m just gonna leave it here. It’s not too late for Switzerland yet!
https://vimeo.com/549715999