Zurich

Here begins the story of how the railroad forced the city to reconnect the station with the right bank.

Here you will see how the fight for an open shore created a place that was later given a new public meaning.

The garden’s history explains how technical assistance to one city led to construction in another and why the roofs had to be saved with an old stockpile.

The square is needed for the route to show the Protestant Reformation as a personal bargain over power, protection, and the future.

One tight site will show the reuse not of an old building, but of ready-made transport containers.

Here it will become clear how a sermon became a decision of the city council and changed the rite itself.

This point will show the transport hub without which the former industrial district could not have accommodated so many new workers and residents.

The arches will show how, after an expensive renovation, space can be preserved for small workshops, shops, and neighborhood organizations.

The finale shifts the conversation from major projects to neighbors who secured a single neighborhood space.

The final stop connects the city’s topography with the legend of an armed formation on the hill.

Here, the surname on the factory buildings will prove more durable than the inventor's control over his own business.

This stop will show the price a private client paid to ensure that the architect’s final project was ultimately opened to the public.

This stop will show how church spaces successively served prayer, wine, grain, and books.

This stop offers the opposite scenario: a major new investment on the land of a former industrial enterprise.

The former workshop is needed on the route as an example of a conversion in which a new audience proved more difficult than a new building.

This stop will explain how a work bell, a children's bonfire, and a guild procession became a single city festival.

Here, a dispute over propriety will turn into a practical question: who will be allowed to use the city’s lake.

The tower will show how, before the telephone became widespread, the city detected fires and kept time.

Here the route begins with an engineering detail that survived both dairy production and the building's change of use.

History will link the rushed construction on a marshy site with an opera whose missing act was replaced by a pantomime.

The finale will show how a request for a short film shoot decided the fate of a sculpture that no one wanted to install anywhere.