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For those who have seen and experienced much of this world, Luxury Defined, the online magazine of Christie’s International Real Estate, suggests to travel to some of the world’s most renowned Dark Sky sites to gaze up at the stars and enjoy a special astronomy experience.

On many journeys through his adopted country, professional photographer Patrick Lambertz has repeatedly encountered houses that defy the typical cliché of the Swiss châlet. The perfectly staged pictures of these buildings have resulted in the beautiful photo book “Chalets of Switzerland”.

The Globus temporary building near Zurich’s main station was built for eight years as a provisional solution. Now it has been standing for over sixty years. And it has been highly controversial for decades. So far, all reconstruction plans have failed, but now there are new visions for the site in the centre of Zurich, as SRF’s “Schweiz aktuell” recently reported.