¿September in Switzerland? Why the devil not? Can think of worse places to spend late summer, early autumn. Not that the trip to the Confoederatio, welcome as it sounds, was planned. Rather, in context of preparing our list of recommendations for new architecture and design exhibitions opening in September 2025, we realised we had a quintet of easily recommendable Swiss exhibitions opening in September 2025. Specifically a quintet of Swiss architecture based exhibitions opening in September
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Water is, and long has been, one of the most important resources for human society. Not just as a life-giving elixir for the human species and the flora and fauna with whom we share the planet and on whom we rely for our existence, but also as a source of power, as a basis for hygiene, as a transportation conduit, as a cultural identifier, as focal point for communities, as a location for fun, etc, etc, etc. Factors neatly elucidated by the Limmat that flows through Zürich, the Zürichsee into
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In the fickle and vainglorious world of cinema January is a so-called Dump Month, a month when all those films studios have lost faith in get released en mass without publicity in the hope that no-one will see them. Far less remember them. Which is not only extremely arrogant, a belief that just because you don't appreciate something no-one else will, but an outrageously decadent waste of a month when, certainly in the northern hemisphere, most people are looking for spaces in which to not
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