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= Dolder Waldhaus = The Waldhaus Dolder is a former hotel building located on the Zürichberg near the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zürich, Switzerland. It was originally conceived in 1879 by Heinrich Hürlimann (1841–1910), who had previously commissioned the Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 1890, Hürlimann began to secretly acquire cheap plots of land on the Zürichberg above the city in order to realise a project including a wildlife park, a restaurant, a hotel and a cable car. After the Federal Council had granted a provisional concession for a cable railway from the Römerhof square to the Dolder in 1894, a public limited company was founded and the engineer Ulrich Bosshard was awarded the contract to build the Dolderbahn. The architect Jacques Gros was entrusted with the construction of a restaurant building with a mountain station and surrounding area. Almost one year after the start of construction, the hotel was opened in July 1895 together with the Dolderbahn. The Waldhaus and the railways, of which Hürlimann himself was the leaseholder, turned out to be a profitable undertaking, so that the building complex underwent various renovations and additions between 1899 and 1930.

Demolition and new construction
The Waldhaus was demolished in 1972 and replaced by a new hotel building, conceived by the architects Robert Briner and Herbert Wirth, in 1975. This currently standing structure was to be replaced in 2017 by a new building somewhat less high than the current concrete towers, but a little wider with expected construction costs of around 90 million Swiss francs. Due to a tax dispute the construction of the new Waldhaus Dolder was postponed. According to the current owner Dolder Hotel AG, the construction of the new building was to start in 2021.