Today's photo is a view to the east over Oerlikon from my room at the Swissotel. Maybe it's because our normal viewpoint is from five to six feet off the ground that I find high-rise views so fascinating.
The concrete ‘Jemoli' building (center left) and the yellow tower blocks hiding the church (top center) look out of place among the older, more colorful, buildings. At least the high rises are a shade of yellow in some form of weak apology for being such misfits.
I find the penthouses here to be interesting. There are two on the buildings right on the left edge where the occupants have used planters to create a roof garden of sorts.
The ‘Jemoli' building appears to have two. One, closer to us appears to have a glass-walled sun room and again, a row of planters but the penthouse in the far corner, the one below the flag is most curious to me.
It looks like it could be in independent structure – almost that is was supposed to have been built somewhere else. It has two floors and outside the door, a few small planters. But what strikes me most about this roof is the absence of any form of safety railing around the perimeter! I hope they don't party too hard out there on that roof.
Another contrast here is that the older houses are all topped off with attic rooms. Here, at the top of five flights of stairs would have been the servants quarters or the lowest rent spaces. In the new buildings with their planters and open spaces the highest floors are the most desirable with the highest rents – but then they probably have elevators also.
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