Designing a museum is nothing new for Zaha Hadid Architects. Creating one on top of Mount Kronplatz in northern Italy is something else entirely. The 10,800-square-foot structure, which opened in July ...

Reinhold Messner, the world’s greatest mountaineer, turned 70 this week. To mark the occasion, I visited him at the Firmian Messner Mountain Museum in Bolzano, Italy. The castle there is one part of a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Messner Mountain Museum is Zaha Hadid's third project in the Alps, following her seminal ...

The world-renowned Italian climber Reinhold Messner was among the first to scale Mount Everest in 1978 without bottled oxygen and was the first person to climb all of the world’s 14 mountains higher ...

The striking 10,700-square-foot Messner Mountain Museum Corones is located 7,500 feet above sea level and accessible via cable car from within the Kronplatz ski resort in South Tyrol, Italy. Each ...

Zaha Hadid Architects recently announced they are building the sixth and final Messner Mountain Museum at Plan de Corones, South Tyrol, Italy which is set to be completed in the summer of 2014. In ...

The new museum for famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner was constructed on the top of the Kronplatz peak in South Tyrol, Italy The 1,000m² scheme is the sixth and final project in the series of Messner ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Here in part two, Messner explains the concept behind the mountain ...

The photos of the sixth Messner Mountain Museum, inaugurated at Plan de Corones, South Tyrol, Italy, on 24 July 2015. After Castel Firmiano on the outskirts of Bolzano, Ortles at Solda, Monte Rite ...