MFO-Park
Double-walled steel garden pergola shaped like a factory's skeleton, wrapped in climbing vines.
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MFO-Park in Zurich traces the rise and fall of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, the factory that once filled this yard, founded by industrialist Peter Emil Huber-Werdmuller in 1876 and later split into a locomotive builder and a major Swiss arms maker. The guide follows the site from a century of paid work through the last shift clocking out in 1999, and the choice planners faced over some of Zurich's most valuable land minutes from the train station. Developers would have paid handsomely to cover it in offices; the guide lingers on why that offer was turned down.
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