‘Heredity’ Workshop / 2:pm Architectures + CUAC Arquitectura
Organized by Europan Europe, 2:pm Architectures & CUAC Arquitectura met for a 4-days long international workshop to explore how agriculture and architectural development are in symbiotic relationship. In analyzing the growth of Vienna and Oberlaa, they can easily understand how architecture born on agricultural results in footprints so they offered a system to develop Oberlaa. It’s a system which is able to offer countryside qualities within contemporary city density. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Two in One House / Triendl und fessler architekten
Architects: Triendl und fessler architekten
Location: Natters, Austria
Proyect Year: 2008
Photographs: Günther Wett
PARKPRAXIS / x architekten
Architects: x architekten
Location: Kasten bei Böheimkirchen, Austria
Client: Dr. Regina Fehrmann
Area: 224 sqm
Completion: 2012
Photographs: x architekten
Skate Villa by Philipp Schuster
Have you ever dreamed of customizing you own house and transforming it into… maybe an indoor skatepark? In collaboration with Redbull, that’s exactly what Philipp Schuster did in an old house in Slazburg, Austria. It’s an inspiring DIY project with a good deal of concrete bags and a few hard working friends. You can watch the construction process video after the break.
L House / Architects Collective
Architects: Architects Collective ZT GmbH
Location: Burgenland, Austria
Completion: 2012
Area: 300 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Architects Collective ZT GmbH
Vienna Microsoft Headquarters / INNOCAD Architektur ZT GmbH
Architects: INNOCAD Architektur ZT GmbH
Location: Vienna, Austria
Completion: 2011
Floor Area: 4,500 sqm
Cost: 2,800,000 Euro
Photographs: Paul Ott
B&F Wien Headquarters / Delugan Meissl
Architects: Delugan Meissl
Location: Vienna, Austria
Completion: 2012
Area: 4,046 sqm
Photographs: Herta Hurnaus, DMAA
Extension of the Building Academy Salzburg / soma
In less than two weeks, Austrian practice soma will be celebrating the grand opening of their new extension to the Building Academy in Salzburg. The extension will serve as a new foyer that acts as the school lobby and as a public space for various cultural events. Using a strategy of a “viscous” affiliation, the new atmosphere is generated through a simulation of viscosity that blends with the existing building geometry yet develops its own presence.
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Skiterminal Schladming / HOFRICHTER-RITTER Architects
Architects: HOFRICHTER-RITTER Architects
Location: Schladming, Austria
Effective Area (Station plus Garage): 18,500 sqm
Project Costs: 22,000,000€ Euro
Photographs: Paul Ott
Crossroad Offices Extension / OFIS Arhitekti
The new extension for the Crossroad Offices by OFIS Arhitekti acts as a crossroad regulator between the existing villa and its approach from the street on the south side and the underground parking on the east side. The actual form derives from the main logical directions on the site to the main destinations as the new volume is positioned behind the existing villa with individual cut outs, ‘green bays’, in function of the extended external park coming into the pavilion. Inside they form divisions between internal spaces and create dynamic, light and calming atmosphere. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Summer House In Southern Burgenland / Judith Benzer Architektur
Architects: Judith Benzer Architektur
Location: A-7535, Deutsch Tschantschendorf 130, Oberbergen, Austria
Photographs: Martin Weiß
The Chapel of Rest in Graz / HOFRICHTER-RITTER Architects
Architects: HOFRICHTER-RITTER Architects
Location: Graz, Austria
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Karl Heinz Putz
Advanced Building Skins Conference
Organized by Graz University of Technology, the ‘Advanced Building Skins’ Conference will take place June 14-15 where creative, innovative professionals and researchers at the forefront of skin design will discuss tasks and issues in research, design and manufacturing of high-performance façades and building envelopes. Participants will gain new perspectives on, and an enhanced insight into, developments and research in design and engineering for tomorrow’s advanced building skins. uilding skins have rarely been as fascinating and challenging as they are today. They are the most interesting field in contemporary architecture. Façades and building envelopes are determining the visual identity, character and expression of architecture. The design of buildings’ skins shapes the urban environment. For more information, please visit here.
Burgenland Meierhof in a Multifunctional Complex / AllesWirdGut
AllesWirdGut won the first prize of the Esterházy Domain Private Foundation competition for the conversion of a Burgenland Meierhof in a multifunctional complex. The specific nature of the project results from the partially worth protecting historic buildings. The design of AllesWirdGut strengthens existing qualities, but combines the old architecture with contemporary enhancements. An hour away from Vienna, a multifaceted system of a restaurant, offices and homes is about to be created. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Amstetten School Campus / Atelier Thomas Pucher
The challenge in the competition for the Amstetten School Campus was to combine two existing secondary schools in one location and complement the program with a new music school and an additional gym. With the area being characterized by an extreme heterogeneous development, with a wide range of buildings with various functions and styles, the design by Atelier Thomas Pucher, which won the first prize, is comprised of a compact five-storey cube which rises in the surroundings as a distinctive landmark. Additionally, the building is combined with two lower volumes and three courtyards, within a chessboard formation. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Music Gymnasium Salzburg Proposal / LETH & GORI
LETH & GORI was recently awarded the third prize in the open international competition with their proposal for an extension to Music Gymnasium Salzburg. Their design creates a new extension to the school without stealing space or light from the existing densely built site which is done by digging out the northern part of the site and inserting the extension as a one storey building with courtyards and skylights. Furthermore, the roof of the building becomes a new playful urban landscape for the students. More images and architects’ description after the break.
DC Towers I + II / Dominique Perrault Architecture
The design of the two high-rise towers for the Donau-City in Vienna by Dominique Perrault Architecture represents the concluding phase of a development extending over several decades: on what was originally a municipal rubbish tip the UNO-City was erected (1973–1979), tentative plans to hold the 1995 Vienna-Budapest EXPO here were soon abandoned, as a result architects Krischanitz and Neumann (commissioned by WED AG) produced an urban design masterplan for the area in 1992. The outcome is an entirely new urban district with a diverse range of functions. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Wohnanlage Ulmer / Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Location: Dornbirn, Austria
Client: Schertler Alge
Project Management: H. Brunner
Completion: 2009
Floor Space: 19,037 sqm
Volume: 99,208 cbm
Building Costs: 38 million Euro
Photographs: Bruno Klomfar
Volksschule Wallenmahd / Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten
Location: Dornbirn, Bachmähdle, Austria
Client: Stadt Dornbirn
Project Years: 2010 – 2011
Floor Space: 2,000 sqm
Volume: 17,500 cbm
Building Costs: 4.5 million Euro
Photographs: Bruno Klomfar
