This dreamy mode of mountainside transportation is the handiwork of the revered Italian architect Renzo Piano, designed to carry visitors to and from his firm’s Genoa studio. “[It] is nestled between the mountains and the seaside, a situation that we Ligurians are quite accustomed to,” Piano has said of his striking, hard-to-reach workspace, the structure of which imitates the wings of a butterfly. The cubic glass cable car, meanwhile, runs from the roadside below up to the steepest section of the terraced hillside on which the studio sits, offering passengers the chance to admire a 360-degree view from the comfort of its red, Piano-designed folding chairs.
