Shelterland is both work and play around Swiss fortifications. In a form where idyllic alpine landscapes meet sci-fi concrete monsters out of a spy novel, we find a country where peace is erected as a prime principle. To confuse both unsuspecting mountain hikers and possible invaders, every trick is employed to blend into the surroundings : fake barns, fake villas, fake alpine chalets, fake rocks even… Around 8000 bunkers have thus been submitted to a precise work of camo. Most of those surround the country at its borders in a concrete belt, a testament to Switzerland as an island of resistance in the middle of the European Union. No contemporary war since World War Two has warranted the use of the concrete sentinels ; they remain, though, useless and aimless.
The first house designed by American architect Philip Johnson has been put up for sale by its owners, after 55 years living in the Upstate New York residence.
On the market for $1 million (£775,000), the Booth House was built in 1946 in Bedford, New York – close to the modernist haven of New Canaan, Connecticut, where Johnson later built the iconic Glass House for himself.
Sebastion Cooper 