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Carlo Ratti Associati designs Alpine bivouac for Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games

October 28, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has collaborated with furniture fair Salone del Mobile to design a cross-laminated timber Alpine bivouac, which will be exhibited at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The bivouac will be unveiled as a pavilion at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in February next year before being airlifted by helicopter to the Alps, where

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Senoner Tammerle Architekten places reflective mountain shelter in Italian Alps

March 6, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Italian studio Senoner Tammerle Architekten has created a mountain shelter in the Alps, distinguished by galvanised steel cladding chosen to reflect the hues of the sky. Sat at an altitude of 2,735 metres, the structure is designed as an updated version of the Shelter Santnerpass – a single-storey structure originally in the Italian Alps in

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Ingenhoven Architects creates inflatable Ski World Cup start house on Matterhorn

December 1, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

German studio Ingenhoven Architects has used air-filled cushions to create a start house for the annual Alpine Ski World Cup downhill races at the Matterhorn mountain, Switzerland. Designed to sit at an altitude of 3,700 metres, the studio crafted the “igloo-inspired” structure to withstand extreme alpine conditions, while being completely energy independent and demountable. “An ephemeral

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Snøhetta places shingle-clad viewing tower on mountain peak in Austria

May 3, 2023 James Parkes 0

Norwegian architecture practice Snøhetta has built Top of Alpbachtal, an angular timber viewing tower in a popular skiing area in the Tyrolean Alps that sits 2,030 metres above sea level. The Top of Alpbachtal building sits beside a recently completed high-speed ski lift close to the Wiedersberg Horn peak in the mountainous town of Alpbach,

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Space Copenhagen pays homage to historic features in Mammertsberg renovation

February 21, 2023 Alice Finney 0

A sculptural spiral staircase, floor-to-ceiling windows and panelled walls have been paired with contemporary furnishings in Space Copenhagen’s renovation of a restaurant and hotel in Switzerland. Called Mammertsberg, the combined hotel and restaurant is housed within a 1911 villa that overlooks the Alps mountain range in Freidorf, Switzerland. Danish design studio Space Copenhagen focused on

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Red concrete museum tells the story of Alpine ibexes in Pitztal valley

April 29, 2021 Amy Frearson 0

Red concrete exterior of Ibex Museum St Leonhard by Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl

Swiss architects Daniela Kröss and Rainer Köberl have completed a red building “like a small castle” to celebrate the history of wild ibex in the alpine region of Pitztal, Austria. The Ibex Museum St Leonhard charts the history of a native ibex goat species that became extinct from the area but was successfully reintroduced in the

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Geometric timber roofs cover Diamond Domes tennis courts in Switzerland

October 29, 2020 India Block 0

Diamond Domes tennis courts designed by Rüssli Architekten with CLT roofs by Neue Holzbau in the Swiss Alps

Swiss timber company Neue Holzbau has created a pair of geometric cross-laminated timber roofs for two indoor tennis courts by Rüssli Architekten in Bürgenstock, Switzerland. Called Diamond Domes, the tennis courts stand 874 metres above sea level and are part of the Bürgenstock Resort in the Swiss Alps. Perched atop concrete foundations in the mountains,

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University of Stuttgart builds prototype thatched Alpine hut

September 26, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Thatched facade of alpine hut in Vorarlberg

The University of Stuttgart has designed SkinOver Reed, a thatched hut in the Austrian Alps, as part of its research into renewable materials that can be used in high-altitude Alpine regions. A team from the university’s institute for building materials (IBBTE) developed the hut, which has been shortlisted in the small building category for Dezeen Awards

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Watch Doug Aitken’s mirrored Mirage Gstaad pavilion change with the seasons

September 25, 2020 India Block 0

Mirage Gstaad mirrored building art installation by Doug Aitken in Switzerland in summer

Mirage Gstaad, a mirrored building created by American artist Doug Aitken, reflects the shifting landscape of the Alps in this exclusive video for Dezeen. The reflective pavilion, which has previously been installed in the desert near Palm Springs, currently sits in an Alpine meadow above Gstaad, Switzerland. As people happen upon Mirage Gstaad they can

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Network of Architecture perches Ötzi Peak 3251m viewpoint above a glacier in Italian Alps

September 10, 2020 India Block 0

Ötzi Peak 3251m is a viewpoint made of Corten steel

Ötzi Peak 3251m is a viewing platform made of weathering steel built by architecture studio Network of Architecture at the peak of Schnals Valley Glacier ridge in South Tyrol, Italy. Perched 3,251 metres above sea level – hence its name – the viewpoint looks towards Austria over an alpine landscape. Network of Architecture built the

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