Tag: zurich
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Our trips 2019, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2019. Here are the places we visited in the first half of the year. In reverse…
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FREITAG
Freitag is a company that makes unique messenger bag out of tarp recycled from trucks, old seat belts, used airbags and bicycle inner tires. Each is cut by hand, the design of which keeps some of the original graphics (recontextualized as they say), and is therefore a one-off design. Apparently, MOMA acquired one of their…
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Volkshaus Zürich
Volkshaus (People’s House) is a kind of conference space and stage that is available for rental by the general public. Located on Stauffacherstrasse and facing Helvetiaplatz, it opened about 100 years ago and has a bookshop, sauna and restaurant. We went there for dinner on our last evening in Zurich. Food was solidly good. The…
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YumiHana in Zürich
While we were wandering around the center of Zürich near the main train station, Sue saw the sign of a takeout/grocery store. YumiHana is located on Schützengasse 7 just off Bahnhofstrasse. What a surprising discovery ! We have not had a korean meal for several months and were really elated to find this place. …
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LaSalle in Schiffbau, Zürich
LaSalle Restaurant is located inside Schiffbau and enclosed in a glass cube. In the center of the restaurant is a low hanging whitish murano glass chandelier the style of which matches the period of the industrial shell but its pristine quality matches the glass sides. On one side of the restaurant is a bar, the…
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Schiffbau and Im Viaduct in Zürich West
We spent a couple of afternoons exploring the industrial Zürich West and the neighboring Kreis 5 area. We visited Freitag’s flagship store in a stack of shipping containers (the subject of a future blogpost) and checked out the area’s shops and restaurants. A remarkable string of about 50 shops and studios were created under the…