Living in the Italian holiday complex
The Vogelsang residential development of the non-profit housing cooperative Winterthur »(GWG) received a lot of applause from the tenants – despite all external criticism.
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Unusually colorful, with complicated apartment floor plans: The new settlement of the non-profit housing cooperative Winterthur (GWG) is a topic of conversation.
Madeleine Schoder
For decades, the eight inconspicuous apartment buildings were a familiar sight for commuters: The GWG founding settlement stood nicely lined up along Untere Vogelsangstrasse. The Winterthur architect Werner Schoch had it realized from 1939 in the style of moderate modernism.
After the demolition, an architectural blast from the time has been created there since 2018, the first stage of which has just been moved into. All 156 apartments should be ready for occupancy by the end of the year, says construction manager Christian Allenbach. Around 50 of the apartments cost less than 1,500 francs.
