most event venues add the credentials afterwards. gurgl carat built the austrian ecolabel requirements into the architecture from the start. set at 1,930 metres at the head of the ötztal valley, it's far enough into the alps that the surrounding landscape is protected, the air is different, and the light changes in ways that don't happen at lower altitudes. a congress centre designed with that environment in mind, not as a constraint, but as the starting point for everything the building does.