Krönleinstrasse 1

The balcony is attached to the eastern side of an ensemble of two apartment buildings. Framed by two streets, ascending to the Zürichberg, the ensemble overlooks a square and the city. The second floor, where the balcony is placed, offers together with the third the noblest apartments. The ground floor, formally used as a garage, nowadays a kindergarden, and the first floor receive no daylight from the backside. Through its curvature the balcony connects the half-rounded oriels of the main façade visually with the avant corops. The form of the balcony mediates between the public area, the entrance, that it covers, and the more private rooms, situated in the back of the building. While the same type of balcony can be found on the third floor, a much lighter type with steel railings on the fourth floor concludes the main façade. At first glance the balcony seems to enlarge the rooms on the front, but it is entered from the back. Stepping out on the balcony the garden, the street, the square and the panorama can be seen but the viewer will only be noticed from passengers, if he comes forward to balustrade on the front.