18th December 2025
Lina Peak is modern steel-and-glass tower in sharp distinction to the Swiss resort’s conventional alpine chalets. It’s seen by some as the one solution to create inexpensive housing for season staff, others as white elephant that may push up costs. NEW
The 260m tower within the Swiss resort has drawn each help and opposition from locals and structure specialists.
Some are questioning whether or not such a big tower belongs in a village recognized for its conventional picket properties, small streets, and pure mountain surroundings.
Lina Peak is designed to assist remedy Zermatt’s severe housing scarcity, particularly for seasonal staff who usually wrestle to discover a place to reside.
There’s some scepticism about whether or not luxurious flats aimed toward rich foreigners would assist the housing drawback for locals.
Zermatt, Switzerland. Picture c/o PlanetSKI.
The tower could be about 800m from Zermatt on farmland at 1,500m.
The constructing could be on a 40m × 40m footprint, making it tall however comparatively compact on the base.
From the 2nd to the thirty second flooring, the tower would supply comparatively inexpensive housing for residents and seasonal staff, lots of whom wrestle to search out inexpensive lodging in Zermatt.
Flooring 33 to 62 could be luxurious flats with views of the Matterhorn that may enchantment primarily to international patrons.
The skyscraper’s base would have a 2,500-seat live performance corridor, stores, eating places, a sports activities middle, a public swimming pool and a daycare middle.
A rooftop terrace could be accessible by way of high-speed elevators.
Lina Peak tower in Zermatt. Picture © Heinz Julen
The everlasting inhabitants of Zermatt is round 5,800 folks.
Throughout peak occasions in winter the quantity grows to round 40,000.
The estimated price of the Lina Peak mission is round CHF 500 million (£470m).
If authorised building would take 5 to 10 years.
The developer has already acquired the farmland plots wanted, however main hurdles stay.
Together with altering the land from agricultural to residential/industrial and profitable approval by a public referendum.
The mission requires round 600 signatures to set off the re-zoning course of.
Solely then would a vote among the many group resolve whether or not the tower can go forward.
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