Edited by Werner D'Inka, JÜRGEN Kaube Berthold Kohler, HOLGER Steltzner
Hotel Tower in ValsA skyscraper in the mountains
In a tranquil Swiss mountain village to be built the tallest hotel in the world.This ensures correct much trouble.
30.06.2015 from JOHN RITTER
The entrance is reminiscent of "Jurassic Park", this film with the nasty primordial lizards running straight in a rematch in cinemas: A narrow road leads steadily in seemingly endless curves uphill through a lush green valley, from whose slopes left and right water in long strands down-fall. It accumulates in the Valser Rhein. The river has become so deeply dug into the rugged rock massif that he would have cut from the street, the Swiss architect almost artfully into the slope, is often no longer see. Only rarely encounter a car. A miracle is not that. Because this is a dead end. It ends at an altitude of 1250 meters in Vals.This village in Graubünden, a good two-hour drive from Zurich, is encircled on three sides by mountains with names like Piz Tomül, Faltschonhorn and Frunthorn.
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At the foot of the green alpine meadows and craggy cliffs 1,000 people and at least twice as many sheep and cows live. It is a sleepy little place that has an exciting ski resort to offer neither a spectacular mountain like the Matterhorn yet.And if there is not the now world-famous thermal baths of the architect Peter Zumthor would that attracts hip urbanites, intellectuals and Canton schoolteacher weekend, then in Vals was going on nothing.
But wait! There's something - or rather someone who makes sure for months that the hell is going on in Vals. And not only there. Throughout Switzerland, this man is causing a stir.Hate speech fill the columns of newspapers and online media. It's all about the glitzy real estate entrepreneur Remo Stoffel and his hotel project in Vals.
Hate speech in newspapers and online media
Just beyond the entrance, beneath the spa, Stoffel wants to build for 300 million francs, the highest hotel in the world, a glass skyscraper, which would be with 381 meters as high as the Empire State Building and a footprint of only 18 times 31 meters as a needle should towering into the sky. Designed by award-winning American architect Thom Mayne, it is to be a luxury hotel of superlatives, in the give the correct kingdoms of this world, the jack in hand. The smallest room on the lower floors of a total of 82 will be 60 square meters and costs CHF 1500 per night. The "Grand Senior Suite" with its 480 square meters extends over two floors. For 12 000 francs are due. If that's not enough, you can rent the penthouse. 1500 square meters. Price on request.
Who, pray tell, is so much money to pay for a night in a comparatively unspectacular mountain area on the felt side of the world? And anyway: a glittering skyscraper in a centuries-old mountain village? Is not it all just a big PR number, to attract attention? Many Swiss believe anyway: Behind this madness a madman has stuck.
We meet Remo Stoffel on the terrace of a house he built at the upper end of Vals.There his mother lives. Stoffel was born in this mountain village. The cows in the pasture mooing as loudly above that Stoffel is sometimes hard to understand.Especially the frail, almost shy looking man speaks quite quietly. The 38-year-old wearing a blue shirt, in which his initials are embroidered, maroon pants and a large black horn-rimmed glasses in the pale face. His thinning dark hair sticks with gel at the temples.
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"I'm not for fun," asserts Stoffel, who has put in his own words several million in the development of the project. He wants to put the tower, which is to be flanked by a futuristic park of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a double character.Firstly, the normal tourist is dead on the island of high prices Switzerland can get their money only with a very special, high-quality supply and correspondingly high prices.. Second, the nature has been long enough plastered by the construction of second homes. Now it is in the smallest space in the height.
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