Gramazio & Kohler   Switzerland   Located at 2,883 meters above sea level, in the Monte Rosa Massif of the Pennine Alps, is this mountain shelter, a fruit of collaboration between the architecture department at ETH Zurich and the SAC (Swiss Alpine Club). It is a unique construction o

Gramazio & Kohler   Switzerland   Concebido como una estructura temporal, el pabellón está construido con un entramado de 16 machones retorcidos, surgidos cada uno de ellos del apilamiento de 372 listones de madera, que forman a la vez el esqueleto portante y la piel del edificio, y

The Economist   Since the Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been a sweaty, grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones into place and, in more recent times, covering the surface with asp