Ugly residential building colours in Switzerland

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We definitely need a picture! We should put pictures of those grotesque Creations.

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I was glad to see that there was at least a bit of grey somewhere, otherwise it would not have been truly Swiss.

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well, i couldnt complete it but i could question it!

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In New Zealand houses leak heat like a sieve, but the people are hard enough to stand it

(not true any more, now we have had enough people go overseas and experience winters in insulated houses with double and triple glazing we are beginning to realise that was a good idea all along, but even about 10 years ago the above statement was believed to be true by many kiwis!)

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Since being in CH I have heard many people use the word isolate instead of insulate. What's the story behind that?

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Isolate is the German word for insulate but like many words, it has a different meaning.

On topic, my house is grey. I wanted to repaint a small section that was damaged and re-rendered and I went to the paint shop to ask for "Swiss grey". Apartently there are many variations of grey. After asking a neighbour, my specific grey is identified by a 10 digit number.

BTW my house is darn ugly, living inside I don't see it. A flat roof and a blocky building means I have a huge sunny, private terrace on the roof that more than makes up for the ugliness :-)

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English: insulate

German: isolieren

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Isolierung is the German for insulation.

Falsche Freunde.

EA: Marie and Tom, you both type faster than I do.

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I like grey, I'm fine. But I love red bricks architecture dutch and hanseatic style. But that would be a very unreasonable demand in Switzerland. So yea, I'm fine. If somebody would explain to me the rational behind purple houses though, I would be somehow finer, but still.

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We have a house with lovely white walls, dark green shutters and red tiled roof. It looks as nice as any house in any country and it is very typical Swiss style.

This criticism that there is too many grey walled homes here just doesn't stack up, if you take a proper unbiased look the housing here especially in villages is particular pleasant. If you then go an look in many countries you will find that most places tend to just do copycat style building

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The Swiss embassy in Washington DC.....

Designed so all Swiss will feel fright at home

Only slightly less welcoming are the gates of Mordor....

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The amount of ugly buildings in Switzerland is chocking - but of course everybody has a different taste...

I don't mind grey building, but I think there are some modern buildings with bright colours which are terrible. For example I wouldn't like to go to school in Stampfenbachstrasse 138, Zürich. Well, you could say that was the fashion at that time. But hasn't it evolved to something better since then? For example if you ever are in Oerlikon, drive along the Leutschenbachstrasse, there is a brand new office buidling there in the same spirit. I always look like this when I see it (the buildning is not on Google Street View yet).

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There are some hideous ones in the Schlieren/Dietikon area, bright red not even a pretty red more like tomato, and then there is this god awful one in Dietikon, we actually viewed a flat there- the flat was nice but the colour of bright green....I just couldn't do it, no wonder they were offering 3 months free rent

I just don't get it, also when you see new blocks being built amongst traditional architecture they are often really ugly 'eastern block' looking, why not be sympathetic to the surroundings?

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The ones right next to the railway line? I think they're great! Love the color!