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Enel extends the date to join the international “WinDesign” contest to August 30, 2025. A unique opportunity to imagine the new design of wind turbines.
The company which built it would like to get rid of the enormous cube, which weighs 4000 tonnes and is at present unused, selling it however at a high price – 1.5 million dollars. But since the only potential buyer – a German restaurant which would like to transform it into a wine bar and bistrot – has offered “only” 275 thousand dollars, a more feasible alternative has been raised – to demolish the structure and recycle the materials (rusted metal).
The town of Morat, for its part, certainly cannot afford to but the building. It is too expensive, considering it can only count on 5800 contributors and from a tourist angle the town is in competition with nearby Lucerne and Berne.
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