Cluster: Swiss Identity

Zurich professors win at Venice Biennale

This content was published on Aug 30, 2012 The prize was awarded to Urban-Think Tank (Brillembourg and Klumpner) and Justin McGuirk for the collaboration’s project exploring the squatted, half-built Torre David skyscraper in Venezuela. Torre David, a 45-storey building in Caracas, has remained unfinished since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living…

Demographics

Swiss population continues rapid growth

This content was published on Aug 30, 2012 Figures released on Thursday showed a population increase of 1.1 per cent which is comparable to growth experienced in 2007 and 2009, the Statistics Office said. One in eight people live in the largest five Swiss cities of Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne and Bern, while nearly half of the population resides in a city with…

Demographics

Expats “not to blame” for Geneva housing bubble

This content was published on Aug 29, 2012 According to the new report entitled “A home-made shortage,” the chronic lack of real estate in the city cannot be explained by demand, such as recent large inflows of foreign workers active in commodity trading, banking or the many multinationals present in the region. “Geneva’s housing shortage is caused by cantonal regulation, which reduces the…

Culture

Anarchy rules – again

This content was published on Aug 29, 2012 The small industrial centre with its 4,800 inhabitants is situated in a remote region in northwestern Switzerland. Back in 1872, it hosted a historic congress of the international anarchist movement. The gathering marked the divorce between Karl Marx’s followers and those of the libertarian wing jointly led by Russian revolutionist Mikhail Bakunin and James Guillaume…

Mountain guides face climate change head on

This content was published on Aug 28, 2012 When mountain guide Walter von Ballmoos led a small group south of the Swiss border via the Maloja Pass to reach a hut in Bergell, Italy, everything went according to plan. It was on the way back that he experienced the shock of his career. In Italy, he picked up a new group to lead…

Demographics

Only the best make it to the top

This content was published on Aug 28, 2012 If you pass the series of tough tests, it’s unlikely you’ll make a living from guiding. Only one in seven works full time. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch/SF)

Culture

Locarno festival loses director to small screen

This content was published on Aug 28, 2012 The unexpected move leaves a Père-shaped void at top of the renowned festival, where 8,000 people gather annually in the Piazza Grande to gaze at one of the largest open-air screens in the world. Festival organisers have called a board meeting for September 4 to discuss a possible successor. Père’s predecessor, Frédéric Maire, also only…

Culture

Back light

This content was published on Aug 25, 2012 Blum always regarded himself as an artist and strove for photography to be recognised as an independent art medium. He was also interested in film-making and inspired by experiments by 19th century film pioneers. No comprehensive retrospective of his oeuvre was ever mounted in his lifetime. The Swiss photography foundation in Winterthur is showing “Back…

“Simply follow the trail of horse dung”

This content was published on Aug 24, 2012 He recommended the route from Grindelwald over the Grosse Scheidegg pass and down to Meiringen as a trip “full of magnificent objects which can be done quite comfortably and with no danger”. His advice still stands today, and the route has remained very popular. swissinfo.ch retraced the walk, history books in hand, and speaking to…

Culture

Discovering Switzerland’s history on foot

This content was published on Aug 24, 2012 It’s not really a mass phenomenon like the exodus to the ski resorts every winter. Yet during the summer hundreds of thousands of people set out along the many historic trails which crisscross Switzerland. A few figures suffice to establish the significance of hiking for tourism in Switzerland. The network of mule-tracks, paths and trails…

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