Ten high-altitude architecture projects conquering the Alps

A Bauhaus resort in the French Alps, extreme architecture on the Mont Blanc, and cabins perched on vertiginous drop-offs.

A Bauhaus resort in the French Alps, extreme architecture on the Mont Blanc, and cabins perched on vertiginous drop-offs.

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Designed as an architectural reaction to changing weather conditions, architecture firm Snøhetta’s Tungestølen hiking cabin in the western part of Norway on a small plateau overlooks the Jostedalen glacier.

Italian firm MoDusArchitects has completed TreeHugger an eye-catching concrete building for the Touring Information Office in the city of Bressanone, Italy. The structure raises its body on tiptoe embracing an ancient tree.

Instead building futuristic skyscrapers in fancy architectural hot-spots, seven international studios designed archi-bus-stops plunging into the alpine culture of a picturesque village in Austria.