A Vintage Airplane-Turned-Restaurant at in Zurich Airport

This retired Soviet Iluyshin IL-14 plane has found new life as an incredible restaurant and bar in Zurich, Switzerland. The vintage plane and its hangar, located across from the Zurich International Airport, have been converted into a unique dining experience, called Runway 34. The aviation-themed restaurant offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy meals, stiff cocktails, cappuccino and cigars inside the renovated aircraft and its environs.

The Ilyushin airplane sits inside the restaurant’s converted hangar. Everything inside the Runway 34 is aviation inspired. The entrance is a jetbridge, which comes complete with a magazine rack. The menu holders on the tables are shaped like airplane tail fins and some of the tables have decommissioned airline seats. The Runway 34 features four distinct areas. The Hangar Restaurant is the main eating area that serves a fusion of Asian, Swiss and Mediterranean cuisines to the on-board guests.

The luxurious Cigar Lounge has red leather chairs, a cappuccino machine and a humidor. The Wingwalker Bar comes surrounded by windows to offer outside views. Then there is the Aviator Lounge, which serves generally as the Hangar Restaurant’s overflow and large group seating area.

If you happen to be in Zurich or are planning a trip there, you should not miss checking out this ultimate airport bar and restaurant.

Hangar Restaurant


Hangar Restaurant


Smokers Lounge
























Aviator Lounge






Wingwalker Bar

A Vintage Airplane-Turned-Restaurant at in Zurich Airport

This retired Soviet Iluyshin IL-14 plane has found new life as an incredible restaurant and bar in Zurich, Switzerland. The vintage plane and its hangar, located across from the Zurich International Airport, have been converted into a unique dining experience, called Runway 34. The aviation-themed restaurant offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy meals, stiff cocktails, cappuccino and cigars inside the renovated aircraft and its environs.

The Ilyushin airplane sits inside the restaurant’s converted hangar. Everything inside the Runway 34 is aviation inspired. The entrance is a jetbridge, which comes complete with a magazine rack. The menu holders on the tables are shaped like airplane tail fins and some of the tables have decommissioned airline seats. The Runway 34 features four distinct areas. The Hangar Restaurant is the main eating area that serves a fusion of Asian, Swiss and Mediterranean cuisines to the on-board guests.


The luxurious Cigar Lounge has red leather chairs, a cappuccino machine and a humidor. The Wingwalker Bar comes surrounded by windows to offer outside views. Then there is the Aviator Lounge, which serves generally as the Hangar Restaurant’s overflow and large group seating area.

If you happen to be in Zurich or are planning a trip there, you should not miss checking out this ultimate airport bar and restaurant.











Hangar Restaurant


Hangar Restaurant


Smokers Lounge
























Aviator Lounge






Wingwalker Bar

Original Architecture, Chicken Point Cabin

Original Architecture, Chicken Point Cabin - Amazing Design

Chicken Point Cabin – surprisingly harmonious modern hotel with original architecture and iconic elements, combining function and aesthetics of the original. The authors of the “forest” of the project was already known to us American architectural studio Olson Kundig Architects.Unusual cozy house located in a scenic area of Northern Idaho. According to the architects, the main idea of the construction of Chicken Point Cabin was the creation of a cozy romantic forest refuge with large panoramic “lined with” a window opening out into the surrounding house magnificent nature.

A large window offers two tiers of windows, all the main room hotel, combining it with the forest, located near the lake and the mountain tops, trailing the horizon line. Materials of construction – concrete blocks and floors, metal, wood and plywood – have been left in its natural, almost raw state. This solution reduces the cost of building and formed a natural “forest” environment, which over time will become even more charisma, a little old and Get a gossamer …

Technology, through which opens a “window into the horizon, is formed from a visually expressive system of pulleys, the culmination of which is the union of interior and picturesque scenery.

In addition to the elements of an unusual system of opening the massive windows in the house there are several design objects that attract attention and create a unique creative environment that does not “enter into a dispute with the surrounding nature of the house.

Private apartments are located on the second level, also provide an opportunity to enjoy the sunrises and sunsets over the beautiful mountain lake, not even getting out of bed.