CABLE VISION.High on an Austrian Alp, this cableway ca·ble·way n. A suspended cable used as a track typically for a cable car. terminus Terminus (tûr`mĭnəs), in ancient Rome, both the boundary markers between properties and the name of the god who watched over boundaries. sets an example to others in care and precision of creation. The Hochkar is an I 800m mountain in the Alps near Gostling, not far to the west of Vienna, and so it is very popular for winter sports winter sports: see bobsledding; curling; hockey, ice; ice dancing; ice skating; skiing; snowshoes; tobogganing. , Its cableway needed to be restored, and in nine months from May 1995, one was built between two new stations, one in the valley and the other high on the mountain, next to the old terminus. It was the mountain one which attracted our attention, with its elegant glazed glaze n. 1. A thin smooth shiny coating. 2. A thin glassy coating of ice. 3. a. A coating of colored, opaque, or transparent material applied to ceramics before firing. b. machinery box poised on the solid concrete base and juxtaposed jux·ta·pose tr.v. jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing, jux·ta·pos·es To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. with the block of the control tower. We thought this to be an elegant solution to what is often a messy building type. Detailing brought out the contrasts between the materials, and the machinery was given mysterious presence behind the translucent walls. We were much less impressed with the valley station and its ancillary buildings, so the project could not be selected for first prize. ARCHITECT ARCHITEKTURBURO WIMMER-ARMELLINI |
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