F&B / Zürich
Snack on track
The aptly named Bridge has linked a high-end food hall to a Zürich rail stop with a platform for some of the city’s finest food brands. Neither trains nor passengers will be running on empty.
Train stations are usually places that people pass through on their way somewhere else and rarely destinations in their own right. Perhaps Swiss food firm Migros had this in mind when it opened its new concept, Bridge, a food hall in the Europaallee development southwest of Zürich Hauptbahnhof, which seems to reach across the divide.
The entrance to the two-storey space beside the train tracks ensures that this is a visual upgrade to the standard supermarket stop-off: its façade is polished concrete with Carrara marble and matte brass finishes by…