This is not about to land a UFO at. This is the
Wintitower.
Originally it was the headquarters of the company Sulzer.
Winterthur was an industrial town, such as Liverpool or Lion in France.
were here from the looms step by step Webfabriken. This resulted in the total world-changing machine industry.
The tower has been empty for many many years.
Man thought about it to tear off.
Then came the most by far Winterthur Bruno Stefanini and
bought for 60 millions. At least as far as he was in the necessary renovations and the building to increase by another three floors.
For normal capitalist is one of the biggest mysteries of our time.
How to buy a normal hose Meier such an expensive house and so much money put into it, only to leave it empty for more many years ..?
you think the heads are hot, but not a bit behind the motives of Bruno Stefanini.
, and he speaks it quite openly.
The reason why he had bought the tower, is plain and simple.
He loves the house!
Something like that can understand a normal capitalist never, ever, love! The
has yet not all cups in the cupboard.
Well, Mr Stefanini has already said as by far the most cups in the cabinet of all Winterthur, that is the most carbon on the high edge.
He was seen before the conversion of the heights of around Winterthur, as he walked to his new house roof, of course, only with binoculars. He moved here a wild shrub growing on its roof, where a. With his now snow-white hair, he could also be detected at a distance away. No one knew then that he already was planning his tower for a further three floors increase. No one believed him that he had bought this house only because he is in the history of Winterthur as a very important house assesses and wanted to prevent the demolition.
An old tradition or from the time of Sulzer ago, was that were turned around Christmas time windows so as to provide the biggest tree of Europe was created. On New Year's was then in each case the new date illuminated on the tower also made specifically to office lights.
That was nice.
And that is still beautiful.
Although at Stefanini now four champagne glasses are on each façade of a.
hand you can get such a high-rise really nice.
But that understands the increasingly aggressive not hitting the business world.
Mr. Stefanini is now already a very old man
I wish him many happy years with his tower.
Had it not for him, in Winterthur, the greed, as in so many other cities would leave the most beautiful houses in the excavator tooth.
It seems like a small miracle that it is precisely in Winterthur someone was so rich, even though he had lost his childlike mind never to old age. It is as if Winterthur for its past was rewarded.
A past that was one of the great cradles of our modern industrial age.
see slowly the other.
While virtually all have been complaining about this oblique super rich man over the years, it begins to dawn on some. He always came to the old houses that he simply loved to buy and to protect it from demolition. One begins to understand that the city has spared many a clear-cutting, which would otherwise occur under the logic of money.
There are also human beings with a lot of money who know even more than the logic of money.
people who are not acting according to market rules, but because they love something.
I see the house Incidentally, from my bed. And I'm almost a little proud of the building. Even if I can do with modern Archidektur precious little else.
