‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition? Or is it a bit luxury boutique?In the early 1960s, when Peter Zumthor was a…
‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollutionSwitzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country…
Switzerland’s love of referendums keeps the far right at bay | Joseph de Weck
Brexit gave direct democracy a bad name. But the Swiss approach could be what Europe needs nowFascism rests on a two-part confidence trick. First, a leader claims to embody the will of the people. Then they argue that only by being granted sweeping…
Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation
70% vote against tightening centuries-old neutrality, which far right said was being eroded by sanctions against RussiaSwiss voters have decisively rejected a proposal for a strict definition of neutrality that would have required Switzerland to curb…