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A Prominent Landmark
oster + Partners transforms the
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Dolder Grand into Zurich’s new
luxury-class city resort – which
reopened in April 2008.
Towering above Lake Zurich, the
historic The Dolder Grand has been reinvented
to form a luxury-class city resort.
Foster + Partners’ scheme integrates a
substantial new extension, more than doubling
the hotel accommodation and reconnecting it to
the surrounding forest and resort, which
includes the four-star Dolder Waldhaus Hotel
and Dolder Sports (golf course, tennis courts,
outdoor pool and ice rink). The Dolderbahn cog
railway station has been reinstated, enabling the
local community to enjoy the site while
experiencing something of the building itself.
The scheme restores the logic of the original
hotel, designed in 1899 by Jacques Gros, and
the external fabric has been restored and
rendered in the original red and ochre palette.
Internally, the planning has been transformed.
The most significant moves have been to create
a linked suite of grand public rooms, including
a new ballroom, and to reinstate the grand
southern entrance – which had been relocated
to an unsatisfactory position at the back of the
hotel – so that arriving guests now enjoy
breathtaking views across Zurich and the Alps.
Two new wings frame the historic Dolder,
complementing the addition of a spa and a new
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