Exciting Mountain Top

With winter sports at the doorstep, it is just the right time to take a look at how contemporary design is affecting the forthcoming season’s top destination – the mountains. Beyond the commonplace notion of retrograde mountain lodge cosiness, in concept designs and in reality, there stands a new generation of mountain top buildings shaping up as we speak which makes not only humble protective sleep-over shelters but also full-range mixed-use and public buildings feel at home in alpine – and even harsher – conditions.