The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, known for its work on such projects as the Tate Modern and the Beijing National Stadium, has completed a new restaurant at the summit of Chäserrugg mountain, located in the Churfirsten Massif range in the firm’s home country. Perched on the edge of a massive cliff, 7,420 feet above sea level, the restaurant will host diners year-round in a pristine, dramatic natural setting. The new eatery replaces a former one built in the 1970s when the construction of a cable car station made the mountaintop accessible.

Herzog & de Meuron also renovated the original steel-and-concrete cable car station, encasing the structure in a façade of raw spruce, the same wood used to build the restaurant. Local craftspeople prefabricated the components for both before carrying them up the mountain in some 1,200 cable car trips. In fact, the only element in the whole process that didn’t ascend the mountain via cable car was a crane, which had to be flown in by helicopter. The site, now open for business, is only about hour-long drive from Zurich.

Chäserrugg, Dorfstrasse 17, Unterwasser, Switzerland; chaeserruggh