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Architect: Heri & Salli
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project Team: Lukas Allner, Monir Karimi
Structural Engineering: Bollinger-Grohmann-Schneider; Wien
Metallbau: Metallbau Fischer; Klagenfurt
Surface: SFK Tischler GmbH; Kirchham
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Paul Ott Photografiert, Heri & Salli
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The proposal of Dreiecksplatz, designed by Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Jason Hilgefort, and Andreas Karavanas recently won the first prize for Europan 11 competition in Vienna, Austria. Located between the Vienna Ring and Vienna Woods, the site embraces the marks of both environment – urban and nature – as a basis for future development. Currently surrounded by houses with a large amount of private green space, what they believe is needed in the site is a generous, quality public space that will invite and sustain diverse groups of community to gather, live and work by. More images and project description after the break. read more »
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The headquarters of the Verbund AG is a block perimeter development built around a central courtyard in Vienna’s first district. It was erected between 1952 and 1954 to designs by Carl Appel and is bordered on three sides by public streets or squares. The street facade extends from the square known as Am Hof along Heidenschuss towards Freyung and into Tiefer Graben. The block perimeter development is made up of two volumes, one facing onto Am Hof and the other towards Freyung. In formal terms the building refers back to the architecture of the interwar period. On the other hand the economical use of design and decorative elements, for example the window reveals of real stone, is characteristic of the post-war era. As this facade design had reached the end of its useful life, an invited competition was set up for the redesign of these areas. This competition was won by SOLID Architecture. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: AllesWirdGut Architektur + feld72
Location: Vienna, Austria
Client: EGW Heimstätte + ÖVW Österreichisches Wohnungswerk
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 20,212 sqm
Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
“I can hear with my knee better than with my calves.” This statement made by Bernhard Leitner, which initially seems absurd, can be explained in light of an interest that he still pursues today with unbroken passion and meticulousness: the study of the relationship between sound, space, and body. Since the late 1960s, Bernhard Leitner has been working in the realm between architecture, sculpture, and music, conceiving of sounds as constructive material, as architectural elements that allow a space to emerge. Sounds move with various speeds through a space, they rise and fall, resonate back and forth, and bridge dynamic, constantly changing spatial bodies within the static limits of the architectural framework. Idiosyncratic spaces emerge that cannot be fixed visually and are impossible to survey from the outside, audible spaces that can be felt with the entire body. Leitner speaks of “corporeal” hearing, whereby acoustic perception not only takes place by way of the ears, but through the entire body, and each part of the body can hear differently.
- George Kargl, Fine Arts Vienna
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Architect: synn architekten
Location: Vienna, Austria
Landscape Architect: DI Hannes Batik
Contractor: Arge Gebös Nordbahnhof Mischek/Universale
Master Planning: Dr. Ronald Mischek ZT GmbH
Photographs: Manfred Seidl
The Vienna Design Week 2011, now in its fifth year, is Austria’s most important international design festival. From September 30 — October 9th, 2011, it will bring some of the best designers of our time to the Austrian capital while simultaneously fostering the talents of tomorrow. The festival is diversified in content — comprising positions of product design, industrial design, and furniture design. For more information, please click here.
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The modern Hass Haus, designed by Hans Hollein, was controversial from its initiation in 1987. The intrusion of a contemporary glass and stone building was met with a resistance, much to do with its location in the shadow of Vienna’s oldest and greatest architectural masterpieces – St. Stephen’s Cathedral. If anything, the building’s locale in St. Stephens Square is most complementary to the antique cathedral; the contours of the church are brilliantly mirrored on the Hass Haus’ façade and display that modern architecture can be momentous, as well as unobtrusive to its historical context.
More on the Hass Haus after the break.
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Architect: HOLODECK architects
Location: Turnergasse 24, 1150 Vienna, Austria
Project Team: Arch. Marlies Breuss, Arch. Michael Ogertschnig, DI Carolin Saile, DI Christian Rottensteiner, Nana Schilling
Structural Engineer: DI Bernhard Ruczka Building Physics: DI Röhrer
Consultants: Ing. Riebenbauer, Oberwart Site Management: Arch. Reicheln
Building Firm: Habau GmbH Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
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The Vienna Design Week, now in its fifth year, is Austria’s most important international design festival. From 30 September – 9 October 2011, it will bring some of the best designers of our time to the Austrian capital while simultaneously fostering talents of tomorrow. The festival is diverse in content – comprising the areas of product design, industrial design, and furniture design.
With exhibitions, venue-specific installations, theme specials, talks, and of course plenty of opportunities to party and network, Vienna Design Week is an attraction not only for the international design scene. It most explicitly aims to appeal to a wide public audience in Vienna, including international guests: in cooperation with many partners – museums, institutions and companies – the whole city becomes a platform and a showcase for design. The Vienna Design Week does not have the character of a trade fair, but instead offers a variety of venues and approaches specific to Vienna. More information on the event after the break. read more »
© Hertha Hurnaus
Architects: Caramel Architekten
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Hertha Hurnaus
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Architects: Heri & Salli
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Mischa Erben
© Hertha Hurnaus
Architects: SUPERBLOCK ZT GmbH
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: 840 sqm
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of SUPERBLOCK ZT GmbH
© Pez Hejduk Architekturfotografie
Architects: Mladen Jadric Architects
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project team: Max Krankl (PA), Oliver Krieger, Wilhelm Schnabl, Thomas Galos, Zuzana Nagelova, Polina Petrova, Daniel Marin Romero, Mitra Pourazim, Jacobus Schlager
Client: GPA WBV
Landscaping: Mladen Jadric Architects
Project area: 1,235 sqm
Project year: 2004 – 2008
Photographs: Pez Hejduk Architekturfotografie
Courtesy of Prechteck
The design proposal for the extension to the National Library of Austria by Prechteck is to be seen as an extension of the bordering park and takes off at its northwest end to cross over the drop-off lane on 4.5m with a twist. The design then arches back to the ground level to blend into the landscape. More images and description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Zechner & Zechner
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project developer: IC-Pojektentwicklung GmbH
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Thilo Härdtlein
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Architects: Solid Architecture
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project Team: Christine Horner, Christoph Hinterreitner, Anna Rosinke, Kristina Zaunschirm, Tibor Tarcsay, Daniel Glaser
Client: Bene AG
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Günter Kresser
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Architects: Solid Architecture
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: Christine Horner, Christoph Hinterreitner, Anna Rosinke, Kristina Zaunschirm, Tibor Tarcsay, Daniel Glaser
Client: Bene AG
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Günter Kresser, Werner Huthmacher
SPAN (Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger). Formations / MAK Gallery / Exhibition view, 2011 © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK
Architects Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, former recipients of MAK-Schindler Scholarships for the Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles, teamed up in 2003 to found the Viennese studio SPAN, which designed the Austrian Pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai together with Zeytinoglu ZT. The team conceives of architecture as a process and works in the field of applied architectural theory, i.e. at the interface with research. Their projects are centered on future-oriented strategies of designing. These employ medial technologies and involve the development of architectural models from organic systems which are then placed in relation to each other via dynamic spatial programs.
For the MAK Gallery, SPAN planned a spatial intervention transferred into a black box. “Formations” will unfold its meaning in various scenarios consisting of models, animations and architectonic elements, providing the observer with novel insights into a laboratory of contemporary architectural production. The individual stations and levels of the exhibition, based on organic patterns of movement, refer to one another and oscillate between abstract, dynamic forms and hybrid structures.
Images and more information on the exhibition after the break. read more »
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Architects: atelier heiss architekten – DI Christian Heiss, DI Michael Thomas, DI Thomas Mayer
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project area: 70 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of atelier heiss architekten
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