Badrutt’s Palace is steeped in alpine lore, but its latest architectural gesture is anything but traditional. With the unveiling of the Serlas Wing, the iconic hotel doesn’t reach upward or outward—it reaches inward. Designed by ACPV Architects, this extension is subtle in spirit, modern in language, and reverent in placement. It tucks itself into the mountainside like a considered footnote rather than a headline—an exercise in quiet precision that lets the land lead.
→ FOLLOWING THE MOUNTAIN’S LEAD
The Serlas Wing is not an imposition—it’s an echo. Connected to the historic core of Badrutt’s by a discreet subterranean tunnel and an extraordinary hotel escalator that glides beneath the Engadin soil, the new wing feels like it’s always been there. Constructed using locally attuned materials—stone, timber, bronze-toned accents—it mirrors the colour palette of the surrounding valley. Its structure, though resolutely modern, is softened by shadow play and symmetry, revealing itself slowly and purposefully as guests move through it.
→ NARRATIVE, UNDERSTATED AND ENDURING
There are no ornate chandeliers or grand ballrooms here. Instead, the Serlas Wing tells its story through restraint. Each room is designed as a frame to the landscape—with sculptural furniture, and soft-toned interiors that allow the outdoors to pour in uninterrupted. The design is deliberate, serene, and deeply tactile. It doesn’t speak in architectural flourishes—it hums in long lines and clean edges, in thick stone thresholds and warm wooden floors.
→ WHERE MODERNITY MEETS MEMORY
Even in its newest form, Badrutt’s is never unmoored from its past. The Serlas Wing may be contemporary, but it never breaks rhythm with the hotel’s lineage. It complements rather than contrasts—folding into a visual and spatial dialogue with Chesa Veglia, the 17th-century farmhouse, and the Belle Époque charm of the original hotel. Here, time is layered, not linear, and the experience is one of continuity, not contrast.
→ ENDURING QUIET CRAFT
This isn’t architecture for the Instagram moment. It’s architecture for the second glance—for those who notice how the ceiling line follows the ridgeline outside, how the materials echo the texture of the alpine rock. With this project, ACPV marks its first hotel in Switzerland, offering not just rooms, but a refined philosophy: that good design
doesn’t always dazzle. Sometimes, it simply belongs.
Badrutt’s Serlas Wing is a soft triumph—one that allows the guest, the history, and the view to take centre stage. Quiet, layered, enduring—this is where mountain stillness becomes architecture.
STRIKING FEATURE
Architectural Continuum: The Serlas Wing connects a 17th-century farmhouse, a 19th-century Grand Hotel, and a 21st-century contemporary addition through one of the longest hotel escalators in the world—blurring eras with grace, not grandeur.
