The name of the clinic atop the snowy mountain was "The Klinik" or "The Hoffler Klinik". Production designer Dennis Gassner says: "The Klinik was really the beginning of the adventure for me. We went to the Alps in Switzerland and Austria and Italy. Luckily, I found Sölden in Austria, and a restaurant, the Ice-Q, at the top of this ski lift, which became the foundation for what we needed. The Klinik is a little bit of an ice jewel in the middle of the movie." Gassner says that the Ice-Q structure had the perfect clean and clinical Alpine aesthetic for the Hoffler Klinik, and its position atop the 3,048-meter (10,000-foot) Gaislachkogl Mountain made it especially attractive. With key scenes set inside the Klinik, however, the production built the interior though at Pinewood Studios in England, the traditional home of the James Bond films. Knowing Sam Mendes' penchant for the symmetrical, both in set design and composition, Gassner tried mirroring the existing architecture to form a butterfly shape. As the idea developed, the new footprint was mirrored again to form a final design that was made up of four cantilevered wings radiating around a central courtyard. To balance the symmetry of the new building, a central concrete entrance tunnel was built, both on-location in Austria, and on a soundstage at Pinewood, allowing the cast members to transition seamlessly between the exterior and interior sets.
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