“I insist upon my rooms being beautiful!” declares Willy Wonka in Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “I can’t abide ugliness in factories!” It’s a feeling that was evidently shared by the charitable Lindt Chocolate Competence Foundation when, in 2014, they organized an architectural competition for the Lindt Home of Chocolate (LHC) at Lindt & Sprüngli’s historic manufacturing site on the shores of Lake Zürich in Kilchberg. Combining a public chocolate “museum”—a 16,000-square-foot multimedia display accompanied by the obligatory shop, café, and auditorium—with a small, publicly visible production facility, office space for both the foundation and Lindt, and a research lab for the development of new techniques in chocolate production, the 215,000-square-foot facility was designed by Basel-based architects Christ & Gantenbein (C&G). Realized under a design-build contract by Eiffage Suisse, with museum displays by Atelier Brückner, the $109 million LHC does not, in the words of C&G founding partner Emanuel Christ, seek “common standards” of beauty, instead taking its cues from the aesthetic tropes of its 20th-century industrial context.