Layered Ski Hotel Zig-Zags Up Norwegian Mountain

One of Copenhagen-based architecture/design team BIG's newest projects is this awesome hotel and apartment complex designed specifically for hard core skiiers in Norway. It's built in layers along the natural slant of the mountain so that residents and guests can ski in and out no matter what floor they're staying on. More pics after the jump.

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8:20 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
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blurey at 08:51 AM on 02/05/08
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im no architect but it sure looks very inefficient as far as the amount of energy it would take to provide heating for this string bean building. how about a dome style building? skiiers can still ski in and out of thier rooms, plus a dome is avalance proof.-BluRey
92BuickLeSabre at 09:09 AM on 02/05/08
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Lazy-ass Norwegians.
JoeyTheHobo at 09:24 AM on 02/05/08
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@92BuickLeSabre: Surely this is for the visitors of Norway, not the locals.
92BuickLeSabre at 09:47 AM on 02/05/08
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@JoeyTheHobo: Lazy-ass Swedes and Finns.
Benjo at 10:46 AM on 02/05/08
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Really cool, but do I have to be fully coated in red in order to go to the hotel?
Steve at 11:16 AM on 02/05/08
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@Benjo: blue or yellow would be acceptable
Szin at 11:17 AM on 02/05/08
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"You are not the first to come this vey"

Love that ride at Disney World!
halloweenjack at 11:46 AM on 02/05/08
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Added bonus: ski reeeeaaaaal slow past the rooms of hot-looking fellow guests who are careless about closing their blinds.
aspiringexpatriate at 02:23 PM on 02/05/08
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I don't care if it doesn't make sense, it looks awesome.

And there probably is a smart way of heating the rooms at this point, I mean it is the 21st century.
FunkyJ at 06:53 PM on 02/05/08
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NO WAY!

I had a dream with this building in it! It was on the slopes too!
Whyaduck at 09:48 PM on 02/05/08
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Very cool...a ski resort that carves across the fall line! One minor issue. Take a look at the elevation. So, if I'm on the 1st floor, how do I get to the 20th floor?

Also, the website's www.big.dk.
capnfatpants at 05:48 PM on 02/06/08
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You take a ski-lift from the the 1st floor to the 20th, I'm sure!
berobrinus at 07:03 AM on 02/10/08
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well this would be just another testament for the self-fulfillment of architects that don't care about the ultimate user/client - NOTHING will be efficient with this bloc building, ugly as it comes across - denaturing the environment, it's just an awkward design maybe cool on the photo but a terrible idea, wherever it will be build (hopefully not!)