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Carlo Silberschmidt

Business

Flexible friends

Bendy new trams are zipping through Zürich and helping the city to stay on track for a cleaner future.

  • Issue #140
  • 3 min read
Flexible friends
Design

In the frame

Swiss poster design might have a storied past but it's also the ideal media for today, with its simple, stirring calls to action.

  • Issue #139
  • 12 min read
Museum für Gestaltung building exterior with poster displays showing exhibition advertisements
Media

Community service

Launched as a culture magazine, ‘Kolt’ now serves the residents of a small Swiss town with a unique, reader-supported approach to local journalism.

  • Issue #139
  • 7 min read
Shelves displaying multiple issues of Kolt magazine in a retail display.
Art

Culture Clash

Zürich's galleries are abandoning the industrial periphery for a surprising new home: the affluent city centre, where shuttered retail spaces offer fresh opportunities.

  • Issue #139
  • 11 min read
man standing at a gallery looking at a painting
Food & Drink

Food & Drink

Food finds from an architecturally inclined quesería in Madrid to a bolthole in Kyoto. Plus: two fail-safe recipes to whip up at home.

  • Issue #137
  • 1 min read
Food &  Drink
Retail

Let’s talk shop

The future of retail has never seemed so uncertain – so who is staging a successful fightback and what have they learnt along the way?

  • Issue #137
  • 1 min read
Modern coffee bar with illuminated Bar Atlantic signage, blue tiled counter, and digital menu displays overhead
Media

Word up

There’s a newfound appetite for reliable news and positive storytelling. We meet the people aiming to feed it.

  • Issue #136
  • 26 min read
Word up
Urbanism

Soul of the city

Cities have never been so vibrant, vital and on the move. But what is the formula for a perfect neighbourhood? Here we look at urban projects transforming their cities.

  • Issue #135
  • 26 min read
City skyline framed by lush forest and snow-capped mountains.

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