Henkai Architekti clads mountain visitor centre in wooden shingles

Local studio Henkai Architekti has created Pustevny Gateway, a wood-clad visitor centre with a matching bell tower on the Beskydy Mountains ridge in the Czech Republic.

Designed to replace an existing service building, the visitor centre and viewpoint are built on micro-piles and topped by a green roof with a diagonal ridge.

The structure is made from glued laminated timber (glulam), with the sides of the centre...