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Agents Report:
It’s so strange and out-of-time standing in front of huge icy and still intact sculptures in the middle of a lukewarm sunny afternoon of spring. You can feel it all, lying in front of the Nordpark Cable Railway stations in Innsbruck, planned by Zaha Hadid and inaugurated in December 2007. The absolutely innovative first station, maybe just a bit avant-garde, stands out from all the typically Austrian buildings around it, without damaging the architectural balance of the place. The Nordpark Cable Railway structures, helped by a narrow base, seem to float in the landscape. The changeable concave and convex covers of the buildings gives the station an irrefutable dynamism, which adapts itself to the surrounding nature as if it was an organic element of the landscape. The Bergisel Ski Jump (inaugurated in 2002) completes the city skyline and is the real ”lighthouse” of the town, which everyone can admire from almost every single point of Innsbruck. Settled on the Bergisel mountain, exactly in front of Nordpark, the Sky Jump boasts an futuristic tower in the same wavelength of the Nordpark Cable Railway.
At night, wonderful lights brighten the impressive architecture, exalting its flowing surfaces. It’s possible to say that this feature is a typical, and perhaps primary element of Zaha Hadid’s architectural style.
At night, wonderful lights brighten the impressive architecture, exalting its flowing surfaces. It’s possible to say that this feature is a typical, and perhaps primary element of Zaha Hadid’s architectural style.
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What effect does auteur architecture have over infrastructures?
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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.
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Quite a different style than the train stations.
Was it both built in the same project/same year?