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TwitterGlacial Railway – Designed by Zaha Hadid (Innsbruck)
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March 18, 2009 | User: domenico | Channel: checkin-architecture
Tags: cultural | innsbruck | jump | railway | ski | tourism | zaha hadid
min: 3:13
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