The Titlis Tower was never meant to be beautiful. That’s what makes what Herzog & de Meuron have done with it so compelling — a project that says more with restraint than most buildings say at full volume. The 56-meter-high antenna tower was built in the mid-1980s by the Swiss postal service, originally serving as a functional node in the country’s telecom network. It sat largely ignored above the resort town of Engelberg, visible but inaccessib…
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