Who dares visiting most impressive Zaha Hadid’s museum in its cradle?

The Messner Museum Corones is an ambitious project born from the willpower of a handful people.

Perhaps greatest mountaineer ever, mr. Reinhold Messner, celebrated visionary architect Zaha Hadid and constructor Skirama Kronplatz decided to build a museum right on top of the Kronplatz-Plan de Corones mountain at 2,275 meters above the sea level on the South-Tyrolean alps, Northern Italy.

The museum, dedicated to the life and cultures of mountain people, is probably one of the most intriguing architectures by Zaha Hadid architects, maybe not the largest or the grandest, but for sure one of the most fascinating and courageous.

The museum was scheduled for completion in late Summer 2014, but to build on a mountain’s top is not a job like any other. Heavy raining on Summer and incoming hard snowing make now impossible for service trucks to carry the already completed building parts to the construction site, and works need to hibernate until thaw, in Spring 2015.

Nevertheless people daring to reach the Kronplatz peak are allowed, through a short cable-car ride or on a bravest hike to the top, to see a contemporary architecture landmark in its cradle.

Not to mention that they can compare the developing shape of Hadid’s and Messner’s dreams, still in its nourishing cocoon, with the snowy mountains’ exhibition around, which will be the winner, if one?

Article by Riccardo Bianchini, Inexhibit

Photos by Harald Wisthaler, courtesy of of Skirama Kronplatz