Making Ground for Speculation and Circulation
Zurich and its Evolving Lakefront Landscape
Frozen Lake Zurich (1929, photography by Wilhelm Pleyer)
Demolition of the Mythenschloss (2020, photography by Juliet Haller)
Demolition of the Mythenschloss (2020, photography by Juliet Haller)
Frozen Lake Zurich (1929, photography by Wilhelm Pleyer)
Cadastral map of Enge (c 1880, ink and watercolour).
Drainage and park furnishing of Arboretum (c 1885, ink and watercolour).
Shoreline and landscaping at Arboretum (c 1890, photography)
Palais Henneberg and Rotes Schloss (c 1900, photography by Adolf Moser)
Interior at Weisses Schloss (1899, photography by Johannes Meiner)
Night view of Tonhalle from Alpenquai (1932, photography by Gottfried Gloor)
Demolition of the Mythenschloss (2020, photography by Juliet Haller)
fig.1Steam-powered dredge at construction site of Enge parks (c 1882, photography by Dominik Lenz)
fig.2Lake Zurich waterfront still in its mid-nineteenth-century state with urban transformation under Arnold Bürkli beginning in the areas of Hauptbahnhof and Bahnhofstrasse (1867, lithography by Adolf Meinecke)
fig.3Enge prior to the transformations of the 1880s, showing Villa Belvoir (right) and Villa Wesendonck (left) (c 1860, watercolour)
fig.4Perspective of Bürkli’s proposed lakefront project, as presented to the citizens of Zurich, Enge and Riesbach before the public vote on 4 September 1881 (c 1880, lithography)
fig.5Mythenquai view with Arboretum (left) facing the Zurich insurance company headquarters and contemporary apartment complex behind (c 1900, photography by Adolf Moser)
fig.6Enge Arboretum showing the Rentenanstalt insurance company headquarters (left) and the Weisses Schloss apartments (right) (c 1900, photography by Woldemar Böhme)
fig.7The urban ensemble of Tonhalle and Kongresshaus with the Rotes Schloss apartment complex (left) and Villa Rosau (right) (1947, photography)