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Echos by Pour les Alpes
Swiss designers Tina Stieger and Annina Gaehwiler of Pour les Alpes have designed a collection of furniture called Echos. There are three pieces in the range, all created in collaboration with...
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New Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory
Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. Top: photograph by Francesco Mattuzzi Named New Refuge Gervasutti, the survival unit...
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The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum by Werner Tscholl
This faceted museum in the Alps by South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl is precariously cantilevered. Located along a mountain pass, the Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum was constructed to...
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Chalet Béranger By Noé Duchaufour Lawrance
Designer Noé Duchaufour Lawrance has fitted out an alpine ski lodge in the French Alps with a trunk-like hearth, curved fir walls and a floating bed. The chunky fireplace is anchored to the centre of...
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Messner Mountain Museum Corones by Zaha Hadid Architects
Zaha Hadid has revealed images of her addition to the Messner Mountain Museum, a string of buildings dotted through the Dolomites of northern Italy. For the sixth and final Messner Mountain Museum...
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Medical Practice in Ramsau by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten
This doctor's surgery in the Austrian Alps by Graz-based architects Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher was inspired by small wooden hay barns that dot the local landscape (+ slideshow). The medical practice...
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Panoramarestaurant Karren by Architekten Rüf Stasi Partner
This steel and glass restaurant extension by Austrian studio Architekten Rüf Stasi Partner juts out over the edge of Karren Mountain in the Austrian Alps (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun)....
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House in the Alps by Mostlikely based on an agricultural barn
Vienna design collective Mostlikely modelled this Alpine lodge on the wooden agricultural barns of surrounding mountain villages. Mostlikely wanted to design a building that would be suited to a modern...
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Steel-clad mountain hut by Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes wraps over an Alpine...
Perched on an Alpine ridge 3256 metres above sea level, this shiny steel cabin by Swiss firm Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes creates a starting point for mountaineers climbing the Bishorn, Weisshorn or...
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Concrete house by Nickisch Sano Walder Architects built from remnants of a...
Nickisch Sano Walder Architects has deconstructed an Alpine log cabin to create the framework for a stark concrete hideaway with the same footprint and form as its predecessor (+ slideshow). Photograph...
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Alpine events venue by MLZD features glass walls with golden outdoor curtains
Exterior curtains draw back across the glazed facade of this hillside events venue in Bern, Switzerland, to offer visitors uninterrupted views of the surrounding Alps (+ slideshow). Designed by Swiss...
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Mountain hideaway hidden inside a concrete boulder in the Alps
Swiss studio Bureau A has concealed a wooden cabin inside an artificial rock and transported it to a remote site in the Swiss Alps. Bureau A, a studio led by architects Leopold Banchini and Daniel...
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Studio Inches renovates Alpine house to create a private gallery
An old house perched at the foot of the Swiss Alps has been converted into a museum and gallery to exhibit the work of a local artist. Architect Matteo Inches was approached by the 80-year-old daughter...
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House at Mill Creek by Pedevilla Architects features a homogenous off-white...
Tasked with designing a "small but prestigious residence" in an Alpine village, Italian studio Pedevilla Architects planned an asymmetric house with a chalky-white exterior (+ slideshow). House at Mill...
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Christian Müller converts an Alpine chalet into a pair of family apartments
Dutch architect Christian Müller has overhauled the interior of a chalet in the Swiss Alps, creating a pair of apartments that combine exposed stone walls with raw concrete and distressed wood....
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Mountain View House nestles against a hillside in the Austrian Alps
Two house-shaped rooms project out from the facade of this three-storey residence by SoNo Arhitekti, which nestles into a hillside near an Austrian Alpine village (+ slideshow). Named Mountain View...
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Herzog & de Meuron completes a mountain-top restaurant around a cable-car...
Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has reframed the cable-car station on the top of Switzerland's Chäserrugg mountain by enveloping it within a wooden restaurant building (+ slideshow). Located...
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Mariano Dallago's Camera Obscura creates a projected "postcard" of the Dolomites
Photographer Mariano Dallago has installed a giant camera obscura on top of a hill as part of an exhibition in the mountainous Italian province of South Tyrol (+ movie). Dallago's Camera Obscura is an...
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Snøhetta wins competition for cable car and Alpine viewing platform in Italy
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a pair of ring-shaped platforms linked by a cable car, which will offer expansive views of the Alps to residents and visitors in Bolzano, Italy. The cable car...
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Zaha Hadid buries a museum in the peak of an Alpine mountain
Zaha Hadid has completed a museum for renowned climber Reinhold Messner at the top of Alpine peak Mount Kronplatz, featuring underground galleries and a viewing platform cantilevered over a valley (+...
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