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Why do street lamp posts always have to be straight? Shouldn’t a telephone booth – since it’s no longer in use anyway – be twisted once in a while? And should the walls of a house sometimes have a zip? The British artist Alex Chinneck answers questions like these with his artworks on the streets, squares and house walls of Bristol.

Where silk weavers used to present their precious fabrics in the guild houses of the city on the Limmat, visitors will be presented with a new Golden Design Triangle from 15 to 17 November: at the intersection of innovative design ideas, centuries-old craftsmanship tradition and contemporary creativity, Zurich’s design heart, BLICKFANG, pulsates with 180 design labels in the Kongresshaus Zurich.

If you want to buy a home, you have to make a lot of decisions: How should the property be furnished? What should it look like? And how will it be financed? The choice of location is also crucial, both for the quality of life and the price of the property, writes UBS on its website about the study it recently published on the ‘Residential Attractiveness Indicator (WAI)’.