Glacial Railway – Designed by Zaha Hadid (Innsbruck)

Like a glacier drifting out of cyberspace, or a twenty-first century digital snowstorm, Zaha Hadid’s newly designed railway line and stations move with the shattered geometries and undulating forms of the Alps updated for our time. Her Supermodernist style attempts to create a new element of cultural tourism as climate change erodes the winter high season that keeps these slopes in business.

Mission by Fabio Valesini
Look at this mission also on Check-in Architecture website http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/mission/53, on Minispace http://www.minispace.com/it_it/projects/check-in-architecture/missions/single/Glacial-railway-Innsbruck/53/ or on Google Earth http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/index/earth/mission/53.kml

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2 Responses to “Glacial Railway – Designed by Zaha Hadid (Innsbruck)”

lindersi on May 14th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

at least somebody …
at least somebody is interestet in that thing…
you forgot to mention that the railway is loud as hell, unimaginable expensiv (parts are build in china)and cracking all the time due to temperaturechanges.
frotting on May 14th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

che fighi!
che fighi!

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