New Merz album: No Compass Will Find Home

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By Merz in New Music on Wednesday 5 December 2012

This is the new Merz album I made after re-locating to Bern, Switzerland. I wrote all the songs in a huge old school–turned arts atelier space. If there’s a classroom-y feel about the songs, then that’ll explain why. One of the ateliers I rented was a science lab once used by Albert Einstein. This prompted [...]

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Bern, Switzerland: Take a dip in the glacial water

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By Merz in Cool Travel on Wednesday 21 November 2012

Initially, one of the attractions of being in Bern was the Alps, snowboarding in winter, and all that. What I didn’t bank on was the unique summer swimming experience in the fast flowing, glacial river that runs around the capital. It’s a bizarre but blissful ritual; on a really hot day, tens of thousands of [...]

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Swiss mural confronts public with ethics of arms exports

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By Ganzeer in New Art on Wednesday 12 September 2012

Created in the courtyard of the Keserne Basel, a former miltary base, this mural demanded audience participation by asking volunteers to lay “dead” on the asphalt and let their silhouettes be illustrated for the completion of the mural.

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Wicked monster art by Boosher

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By Meghan Geliza in New Art on Friday 20 April 2012

I met this beautiful art butcher from Geneva, Boosher, a couple of months ago, and was immediately drawn to her gnarly, adorable and a tad deadly misfits and monsters. Her creatures have seen impressive incarnations in murals and wood panels, plush toys and sculptures.

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Villa Vals: a unique villa in Switzerland

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By Samantha Dalrymple in Cool Travel on Tuesday 17 April 2012

Villa Vals is a unique villa located on the hillsides of Switzerland. The architecture, design and location makes you want to hibernate there and just enjoy the scenery. So, who’s coming with me?

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The Urban Grocer visits Curiositas restaurant in Geneva

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By The Urban Grocer in Cool Travel on Thursday 5 April 2012

Curiositas is a cutting-edge restaurant in the center of Geneva, Switzerland where traditional European cuisine is given an updated, contemporary twist. The Urban Grocer’s Caitlin Zaino sneaks into the kitchen to get the low down. Frogs legs with parsley emulsion anyone?

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New album from garage dream pop band The Caseworker

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By Hidden Shoal Recordings in New Music on Saturday 1 October 2011

Hidden Shoal have just released the new album from continent spanning three piece, The Caseworker (Switzerland, USA and UK). Letters from the Coast sees the band exude the feel of a shoegazing Velvet Underground as if reared by the Flying Nun label: the perfect balance of drone and chime. Perfectly intoxicating.

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Christian Tagliavini

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By Alison Zavos in New Photography on Tuesday 26 October 2010

Photographer Christian Tagliavini lives and works in Lugano, Switzerland and has been published in magazines such as Eyemazing and toBE. This work is from his series’ 1503 (2010) and Dame Di Cartone (2008).

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Chairless by Vitra

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By Gerry Mak in New Design on Monday 3 May 2010

Maybe it’s my lack of a meaty posterior, but I often have trouble sitting on floors comfortably. Designed by Alejandro Aravena for Swiss design firm Vitra, Chairless is a strap inspired by a similar device used by the Ayoreo Indians of Paraguay to make it easier to sit down wherever you are without having to [...]

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Underground house in Switzerland

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By Katriane Hill in Architecture on Monday 21 December 2009

Vals, Switzerland, is known for their thermal baths and pristine landscape views of the Swiss Alps. Vals is not known, however, for clever underground architecture. But it is in Vals where a breathtaking home was built underground to eliminate destructive processes at land level. Designed by architectural firm SeArch and Christian Muller, the home is accessible by a a steep set of stone steps built into the incline that the home is built in.

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Epsilon

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By Gerry Mak in Cool Websites on Thursday 12 June 2008

Epsilon is a cool game inspired by the activation of the real-life particle accelerator, the LHC, in the CERN lab in Switzerland.

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Yann Gross

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By Gerry Mak in New Photography on Tuesday 25 September 2007

Yann Gross’ photos of tattooed bikers, cowboys, drag races, and Confederate-flag-adorned trailer homes are unnerving documents of the American experience. But his subjects aren’t American, they’re residents of the Rhone Valley in Gross’ native Switzerland. Judging from his photos, Europeans don’t necessarily look down their noses at the U S of A. Some of them [...]

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A red carpet for all

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By Snell in New Design on Wednesday 8 August 2007

A red carpet has enveloped the surface in and around the financial district of St. Gallen, a north-eastern city of Switzerland.

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