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15.12.2009, 16:01
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15.12.2009, 17:02
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| Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | you mean THIS 
building here in the centre ? With the Schwimmbad Rüschlikon right in front of it
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15.12.2009, 20:39
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building here in the centre ? With the Schwimmbad Rüschlikon right in front of it | | | | | It's a building within which is made yummy chocolate. Nuff said.  |
18.12.2009, 14:32
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18.12.2009, 16:49
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18.12.2009, 16:56
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| Quote: | | | | | Not a great building but interesting nevertheless. The 1929 art deco tour Bel-Air Metropole in Lausanne. Lausanne's "skyscraper"!
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I love Art Deco, this is a great building.... All it needs is Kong Kong swinging from the top...
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18.12.2009, 17:30
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I love Art Deco, this is a great building.... All it needs is Kong Kong swinging from the top... | | | | | I think it's ugly- looks so Stalin-esque. This is how Art Deco buildings should look, complete with gargoyles  |
18.12.2009, 18:23
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| Quote: | | | | | I think it's ugly- looks so Stalin-esque. This is how Art Deco buildings should look, complete with gargoyles | | | | | The Chrysler Building to me is one of the most beautiful buildings on earth. I struggled on my first visit to NY to find a good position to take a good photo.
Just as the one below, admittedly off-topic as well 
While this here below is in Zürich 
as are these ones below  
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18.12.2009, 18:36
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| Quote: | | | | | I think it's ugly- looks so Stalin-esque. This is how Art Deco buildings should look, complete with gargoyles | | | | | I don't think the tour Bel Air is that ugly (also a lot of people in Lausanne do agree with you).
Yes it is a bit Stalinist. What I find cute is that they copied a Russian or American art deco skyscraper and they sized it to Switzerland.
It was quite the attraction when it opened. People came from all over Switzerland to see it.
It had a gorgeous movie theater, shops inside, and a restaurant on top.
ps: Love your Ebenalp pictures. It is on my list for the next visit.
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21.12.2009, 15:06
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| Quote: | | | | | I don't think the tour Bel Air is that ugly (also a lot of people in Lausanne do agree with you).
Yes it is a bit Stalinist. What I find cute is that they copied a Russian or American art deco skyscraper and they sized it to Switzerland.
It was quite the attraction when it opened. People came from all over Switzerland to see it.
It had a gorgeous movie theater, shops inside, and a restaurant on top.
ps: Love your Ebenalp pictures. It is on my list for the next visit. | | | | | I think it is more modernist than art deco really. That's why it doesn't have all Hoppy's gargoyles and other ornamentation. I have to say it is not one of my favourite buildings in Lausanne. I have been inside (for some French classes when I first arrived) and I can see its former grandeur. I'm sure it was beautiful in its day.
I prefer something like this from the same period as the Bel-Air Mètropole 
It is the Chandoline apartment building near Mon Repos in Lausanne. Built 1933.
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22.12.2009, 06:11
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Beyeler museum
because the building is functional and at the same time perfectly integrated in the landscape and beautiful. http://images.google.ch/images?hl=de...-8&sa=N&tab=wi | | This user would like to thank irinastaxen for this useful post: | |
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Title: Heidi Weber Museum
Architect: Le Corbusier
Location: Zurich 
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22.12.2009, 09:13
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Title: Tinguely Museum
Architect: Mario Botta
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22.12.2009, 09:21
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22.12.2009, 09:25
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Title: Paul Klee Museum
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More interior design that architecture, but still fantastic
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22.12.2009, 14:11
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| Quote: | | | | | | | | | | Thanks so much for this contribution. Another Renzo Piano building. (Someone posted his Zentrum Paul Klee building in Bern earlier in the thread). 
Note to self: must visit soon.
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I'm so glad someone mentioned Vals. I went over the summer and it was breathtaking! The outdoor bath with a view to the mountain was divine. | Quote: | | | | | Peter Zumthor's thermal bath in Vals. Stunning inside and out.
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Villa Turque in La Chaux-de-Fonds
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