DESIGN & BUILD // AUTUMN 2008

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SPORTHOTEL STEFFISALP PROJECT BY CHRISTIAN LENZ ARCHITEKTUR BÜRO P16-19

#1 THE MEETING IS OVER#2 TIDYING UP OUR DESKS#3 LEAVING THE OFFICE #4 HIGH ENERGY#5 CHECKING THE MAP#6 READY TO GO#7 FINALLY ARRIVED

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How do you measure the success of a project?

How do you define its intrinsic quality?

The answer is often subjective: it depends on whether you would like to highlight

one certain aspect or another: its beauty, how useful it is, whether it fell within the

budget, or even how it was organised. But perhaps the real value of a project

materialises in how “just” is its expression, its outcome. In whether it fulfils all its

expectations and ambitions; in whether it is, quite simply, just right? Just in time,

just within the budget, just what was wanted. The use of the word “just”, as in,

“hitting the spot”: something close to perfection.

Managing a project is a bit like going on holiday. You assess all your dossiers and

matters pending, organise them, and prepare for your departure. You settle the

usual administrative formalities, much like settling up your electricity bill, before

acquainting yourself with your selected itinerary, as if following a road map. And

then finally, at the end of the journey, you arrive. Because even in civilian life, we

retain our love for the “just”, we have chosen to present to you not only our pro-

jects, but also a hotel lost in the mountains, in a region where the cult of the just,

in the field of architecture and design, is a dogma. So here you have it, what we

did last summer.

Robert Hornung

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#1 THE MEETING IS OVER

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« Brothers, now our meeting is over; brothers, we must part And if I never see1

you any more, I will love you in my heart Yes, we’ll land on the shore; yes, we’ll1

land onthe shore Yes, we’ll land on the shore and be saved for ever more »1

Meeting is over / David Holt / Reel & Rock / 20051

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#2 TIDYING UP OUR DESKS« Ive never once heard it cry. Ive never seen it tease, its always there to please me

from nine to five. Such a comfort to know, its dependable and slow, but its always

there. Its the friend Ive got, a giant of all times, my Good Old Desk. »

Good Old Desk / Harry Nilsson / Harry Nilsson Greatest Hits All Time / 1989

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#3 LEAVING THE OFFICE

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« All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go I’m standin’ here outside your door

I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn Is breakin’, it’s

early morn The taxi’s waitin’, he’s blowin’ his horn »

Leaving On A Jet Plane / Peter, Paul & Mary / The Very Best Of Peter, Paul & Mary / 2005

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#4 HIGH ENERGYSÜDSTROOM ESCH/ALZETTE

« And the world is made of energy and the world is electricity and the world is made

of energy and there’s a light inside of you and there’s a light inside of me.

It’s gonna be all right. We’re gonna see the sunlight »

Energy / The Apples in stereo / New Magnetic Wonder / 2007

#5 CHECKING THE MAP

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« I see I’m a long, long way from where I am supposed to be and frankly I’m still

happy here I know where I’d rather be so whether you’re lonely like the sun

there’s no need to be lonely there’s no need to be low we’re lines and

maps and cities and songs »

Maps / Keane / Unreleased

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#6 READY TO GO

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« On the rooftops shouting out, Baby I’m ready to go I’m back and ready to go From the

rooftops shout it out It’s a crack, I’m back yeah standing On the rooftops having it Baby

I’m ready to go I’m back and ready to go From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out »

Ready To Go / Republica / Republica / 1996

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#7 FINALLY ARRIVED

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« I used to be just like you so afraid of me and what I thought I could do but I said goodbye tok

all my fears I hope you can do the same my dear Goodbye »k

Finally Arrived / Glampire / Beginning of terror / 1997 k

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CHRISTIAN LENZ

Christian lenz is an austrian architecte living and working in the Vorarlberg

region. His long collaboration with Hermann Kaufmann brought him to

participate to the development of the Vorarlberg’s architecture.

During his years of apprenticeship he got concentrated on design

as well as in architecture. The ease of transition from overall concept to the

details of scale, the rational use of design elements and the careful creation

of details without letting it become an affection, make his building structures

of subtle simplicity. That seduced us while visiting and discovering the Steffisalp

Sporthotel. Being in a place marrying traditional and contemporary design,

in the middle of the austrian hills.

www.christian-lenz.at

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VORARLBERG

The Steffisalp Sporthotel is located in the city of Warth in the Vorarlberg,

north-west region of Austria. Vorarlberg is renowed through the development

of a specific architectural movement and philosphy bornin the early 60’s

the « Vorarlberger Bauschule ».

The region offers the possibility of admiring dozen of cutting edge

architectural and interior design projects. Discover it.

LINKS

VORARLBERG ARCHITEKTUR INSTITUT : www.v-a-i.at

VORARLEBRG ARCHITECTUR VISITS : www.architekturinform.com

VORARLBERG TOURISMUS : www.vorarlberg.travel

STEFFISALP SPORTHOTEL : www.steffisalp.at

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CREDITS

Production & Projects by: EGB Hornung & associates www.egb.lu_

except #7 page 16-18 project Christian Lentz www.christian-lenz.at_

Pictures by WIDE www.wide.lu_

except page 1, 16, 17,18 STEFFISALP SPORTHOTEL_

32, rue Edmond Dune Tél. +352 48 99 99 1 egb@egb.lu L-1409 LUXEMBOURG Fax +352 49 20 9 egb.lu

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