Herzog & de Meuron to Redesign Titlis Summit Station in Swiss Alps
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Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled the design for Titlis 3020 project in Swiss Alps.One of Switzerland’s most renowned international tourist attractions, the Swiss mountain Titlis, stands at 3000 meters above sea level. As the oHerzog & de Meuron to Redesign Titlis Summit Station in Swiss Alps
Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled the design for Titlis 3020 project in Swiss Alps.One of Switzerland’s most renowned international tourist attractions, the Swiss mountain Titlis, stands at 3000 meters above sea level. As the original summit station, which was built in 1967, no longer fulfills current and future requirements, a new construction has been proposed.The master plan includes the new construction of the summit station, the redevelopment and extension of an old beam antenna tower, and an upgrade of the underground tunnel.“Many mountains and glaciers in Switzerland, no matter how high or remote, offer panoramic views, cable car stations, Alpine huts, restaurants, and accommodations. In Switzerland, every square inch of the country is accessible by car or train, by gondola, or bicycle — anywhere and everywhere, in city, and countryside. As a rule, however, our beautiful high-altitude outdoor locations have been fitted with purely functional buildings for the transport and catering of visitors. Rarely do they display any architectural ambitions, with the exception of hotels, for the most part of reasonable height, which were built in the days of an emerging tourist industry near the villages down in the valleys,” states the website of Herzog & de Meuron.“Our project on the Titlis belongs to a new generation of Alpine architecture that aims to do justice to the breathtaking landscape by ensuring a corresponding architectural experience of the kind now familiar to us in our cities. The Titlis project articulates an unstoppable process that is transforming Switzerland into a complex and differentiated overall urban landscape. There is no city in Switzerland without landscape but neither is there any landscape without urban life,” add Herzog & de Meuron. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more