Poster A1 women`s pool by Tayra Cannizzaro
`Riverside Holidays` – and summer is on the Limmat. The poster by Tayra Cannizzaro and the Designers` Club for Fabrikat shows the women`s bathing pool on Stadthausquai as seen from the Limmatquai: a moored lifebuoy in the foreground, behind it the pool with women reading, swimming, and chatting in the soft light of a summer day. In the background rises the Café Metropol – sophisticated, oriental, urban. The women`s bathing pool has a history. In 1837, the first `bathhouse for women` was built here, when public bathing for women was still forbidden. The current building, from 1888, is a floating Art Nouveau pavilion with a dome and four turrets – inspired by the neighboring Café Metropol. Two structures in dialogue across the river: made of wood and stone, of retreat and representation.
Initially, the pool offered private, private cabins. After the Second World War, the roof fell in 1949 – a symbolic turning point: duty became leisure. A kiosk was added, and the pool became more social, airy, and natural. Today, with two pools over 30 meters long, a floating platform, and a view of the Grossmünster, it invites you to immerse yourself in the water, the city, and history. Café Metropol also reflects urban change. Built between 1892 and 1895 by the architect Heinrich Ernst, it was Zurich`s first commercial building—and with its iron and glass grid construction, it anticipated modernism. Neo-Baroque onion domes and cupolas made it an icon. Once a grand café, later a cabaret, today a Japanese restaurant—the building remains in flux. The poster brings this ensemble back to mind: the women`s pool as a symbol of female self-determination, the Metropol as a monument to new beginnings. Two places—different, yet connected—in the heart of Zurich.
Initially, the pool offered private, private cabins. After the Second World War, the roof fell in 1949 – a symbolic turning point: duty became leisure. A kiosk was added, and the pool became more social, airy, and natural. Today, with two pools over 30 meters long, a floating platform, and a view of the Grossmünster, it invites you to immerse yourself in the water, the city, and history. Café Metropol also reflects urban change. Built between 1892 and 1895 by the architect Heinrich Ernst, it was Zurich`s first commercial building—and with its iron and glass grid construction, it anticipated modernism. Neo-Baroque onion domes and cupolas made it an icon. Once a grand café, later a cabaret, today a Japanese restaurant—the building remains in flux. The poster brings this ensemble back to mind: the women`s pool as a symbol of female self-determination, the Metropol as a monument to new beginnings. Two places—different, yet connected—in the heart of Zurich.