Swiss voters, concerned that unbridled development will eat up too much of the Alpine landscape, approved a ban last year on the construction of vacation homes in towns where they account for more ...

The Santa Monica Landmarks Commission voted 4-3 Monday night to deny landmark designation for a 1912 Swiss chalet-style ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... its original form through TimesMachine. WHEREAS the chalet is distinctly a novelty in the United States, it ...

Gstaad, the Swiss ... a brand new home just outside of town, she hewed closely to tradition, hiring local architecture firm Chaletbau Matti to create a pitched-roof timber construction that ...

Due to the popularity of these chalet-style homes, Swiss companies began offering blueprints in catalogs, facilitating the construction of simple structures that could be customized with ...

And when it comes to architecture that has proven itself worthy, the chalet is ... timber homes require a higher level of maintenance than other types of construction, including regular cleaning ...

Unsurprisingly, the new chalet is set on a sloping site, with a view across the valley to the Grand Muveran massif, home ... construction process. All this sits beneath a steep pitched seamed metal ...

Until today, I would have defined it as a small home ... chalet is a remote herdsman's hut or a wooden house or cottage with overhanging wide eaves and a sloping roof, typically found in the Swiss ...

It’s right there on the white picket fence surrounding the tidy yard at 3627 Carondelet St.: a small, understated historical marker noting the home ... example of the Swiss Chalet architectural ...

The buyer of Prince Andrew's Swiss chalet has been revealed as ... is believed to have bought the traditional Alpine ski chalet as a holiday home. A source says he has “absolutely no connection ...