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A well designed ski jump
Our 21st Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series looks at Zaha Hadid's Bergisel Ski Jump, the most significant building of the year 2002.
Towering above Innsbruck in Austria, the Bergisel Ski Jump marked a turning point for Hadid as her first major completed project, clearly demonstrating that her ambitious designs could be built. "The challenge here was to integrate a new, initially alien element – the cafe and sundeck – into a given [ski jump] formula," Hadid told Building magazine at the time. "Very few buildings can stand up to the Alps without retreating into modesty, but Zaha Hadid's dynamic and lyrical Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria, completed in 2002, confronts the surrounding mountains with an equivalent architectural majesty," wrote Giovannini.
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