Crypto News: Inside a hidden housing complex in Switzerland

There are tough building restrictions, and then there are Swiss building restrictions. Over the last decade, voters in Switzerland have weighed a series of ballot initiatives to limit new construction to preserve rural and greenfield space. Building is particularly tricky in the city of Basel, where straddling two Swiss states means overlapping bureaucracies can stifle the outcomes that voters say they want.

Photographs by Laurian Ghinitoiu and Maris Mezulis. Illustration by Stephanie Davidson.

The latest piece in our "Look at That Building" series dives into the design of Landskronhof, a 15-unit apartment complex slotted into a courtyard ringed by existing structures. By delivering housing and green space to a previously vacant site, it's a case study for the "Yes In My Backyard" movement. Yet it took nine years for the firm HHF Architects to negotiate with nearby residents who opposed the project, and to navigate strict regulations. "The fact that we built that and pulled it off was not a given," HHF founding partner Simon Frommenwiler told Kriston Capps. Today on CityLab: A Swiss Mission for Architects — Hide That Housing Complex

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The fifth annual Bloomberg American Health Summit will bring together practitioners, innovators and policymakers from around the country who are working to address a number of national and global public health challenges unfolding at an unprecedented scale.

These pressing issues include the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, the overdose epidemic, adolescent mental health and gun violence. Watch the livestream here on Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET.

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