Prime Tower
Oil on canvas · 80 × 80 cm · 2025
One evening I was walking from Zürich Hardbrücke station over to Bitwäscherei, a hackerspace, for a Swiss OpenStreetMap get-together. I was a little early, so I stopped on the bridge and stood there for a while, letting my eyes drift across the skyline. They lingered on the glass facade of Prime Tower — for a few years Switzerland’s tallest building, and about as tidy a symbol of Zürich’s prosperity as you could ask for. Its sleek, expensive panes reflected the red-and-white chimney of the waste-incineration plant next door, and the fluorescent tubes lighting the office floors cut long bright lines through the whole picture. This contrast and the geometric shapes fascinated me.