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Five Things We Learned From Matteo Thun

, the Italian architect acclaimed for his innovative hospitality projects, the future “belongs not to concrete, but to wood.” It’s an assertion he doesn’t make idly. For one of his most recent projects – the nine-storey Waldhotel near Lucerne, Switzerland –. Suppressing one’s ego in the service of design is just one piece of advice he has for his profession.

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