Graubünden architect Valerio Olgiati: the man who wants to build an entire village for Kanye West



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Valerio Olgiati will build a monumental underground village and a village with 500 houses for Kanye West. With his work, the Graubünden native probably outdone two Swiss colleagues.

He works a lot with concrete, and that's what rap superstar Kanye West likes: Graubünden architect Valerio Olgiati, photographed in Flims in 2011.

He works a lot with concrete, and that’s what rap superstar Kanye West likes: Graubünden architect Valerio Olgiati, photographed in Flims in 2011.

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Kanye West, the world star and rapper, who not only designs outrageously expensive sneakers, but also unsuccessfully recommended himself as Donald Trump’s successor and then worked more intensively on building castles in the air. boarded his private jet last week and landed in quiet Bündnerland.

Flims was his target and in Flims the architect Valerio Olgiati, who is now rising to some extent in the pop paradise of architects. Olgiati? Even if he is not one of the Pritzker Prize winners like Herzog & de Meuron and Peter Zumthor, he is still one of the most important Swiss architects internationally.

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