{"id":85,"date":"2007-05-13T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:47:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:47:03","slug":"the-times-travel-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/the-times-travel-section\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian, Travel Section &#8211; The View House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The View House<\/strong><br \/>\nZermatt, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>Zermatt is the classic mountain village &#8211; pictures of its huddled wooden chalets with the Matterhorn looming above have adorned countless million chocolate boxes. But it&#8217;s also home to avant-garde artist and architect Heinz Julen, who is single-handedly turning it into the site of some incredible modern design. His first hit was the Vernissage, in the village centre, a cinema\/gallery\/nightclub with the boho-chic feel of a New York loft. Two years later came the View House, a unique building housing four apartments, all of which you can rent. It looks like a traditional chalet crossed with an industrial greenhouse &#8211; lots of timber and vast windows with panoramic views. The price is surprisingly reasonable: each sleeps four and costs from \u00a3165 a night.<\/p>\n<p>Julen&#8217;s Zermatt design revolution shows no sign of slowing. His hotel, the Omnia, opened late last year on a hill above town, accessed by an lift through the rock face. But his most ambitious project to date is about to take shape &#8211; a 117m pyramid of glass and steel, housing restaurant and rooms, on top of the 3,883m Klein Matterhorn.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.viewhouse.ch\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">www.viewhouse.ch<\/a>; <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2007\/may\/13\/escape.architecture\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2007\/may\/13\/escape.architecture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The View House Zermatt, Switzerland Zermatt is the classic mountain village &#8211; pictures of its huddled wooden chalets with the Matterhorn looming above have adorned countless million chocolate boxes. But it&#8217;s also home to avant-garde artist and architect Heinz Julen, who is single-handedly turning it into the site of some incredible modern design. His first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heinzjulen.com\/de\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}