Urban regeneration
Today I took a summer stroll in Zürich around the Viadukt – one of the best examples of urban regeneration I know. In a rather grotty industrial area a Zürich architect created a wonderful eating and shopping space from the old stone arches under a railway viaduct. It’s a new project and I imagine it will take a little time to get well known and start to really take off, but right now it’s small and friendly, there are some really funky clothes shops and a fabulous food hall full of artisan shops …..including joy of joys… a British cheese shop, which sells the very best cheddar I have ever eaten anywhere.
A delightful lazy spring morning.
Note to self: should do things like this more often!
Helen
April 7th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Hmmm, cheese in Switzerland. Isn’t that like coal to Newcastle?
April 8th, 2011 at 12:53 am
Yes! Absolutely you should do things like this more often! And so should I!
What a lovely time you had and thank you for sharing it.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I managed to miss this post. What a beautiful city. And look at all that cheese! There used to be a market stall at Boussac that sold British cheeses but I haven’t seen it for a long time. Shame, because we got some gorgeous cheshire with cranberries in it one Christmas – it was delicious. And our Caiti really misses cheddar despite there being a million different French cheeses to choose from here!