Hadid's cobra
The jump as flowing monument over the hill.
Veit Mueller — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dennis G. Jarvis — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Linie29 — CC BY 4.0 · Andrew Bone from Weymouth, England — CC BY 2.0
The thrill is spatial, not sporting: you stand where the jumper stands and see what he sees — your knees answer. Architecture, view and café complete an hour needing no ski knowledge at all.
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Bergisel is Innsbruck's contemporary Olympic icon: the ski jump remade by Zaha Hadid (2002) as a flowing monument crowning the hill — its tower a glass cobra climbed by inclined lift to the summit café, the view shocking in composition: the in-run plunging directly beneath you towards the city as if you were the jumper, the Nordkette complete across the valley. Here the Olympic flames of '64 and '76 burned (both cauldrons on site) — and in summer the jumpers train on wetted plastic, human flight free with your ticket. Arrive by tram 1 or a forest walk from Ambras — and the hanging café serves a meal with a view rarely bought this cheap.
The jump as flowing monument over the hill.
The flames of '64 and '76 in place.
A meal suspended over the flight path.
Bergiselweg 3, 6020 Innsbruck