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WAC Home and Office / Atelier Gitterle

Andreas Luco — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The client's requirement was to create a family home that would also contain an office for their cosmetics start-up. The positioning of the building in the middle of the vineyards has been deliberately chosen because the young company produces Demeter-certified natural cosmetics from the vines on site.

State Gallery of Lower Austria / Marte.Marte Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 08:00:00 +0000

It takes a lot to create a building like this. The materialization of the State Gallery of Lower Austria in Krems-Stein an der Donau is based on the architects’ daring vision, a determined political will, the teamwork of museum experts, craftsmen, and companies, and a dash of revolt. Krems – concentrated atmosphere on the broad Danube River, surrounded by gentle vineyards, crisscrossed by narrow lanes and attractive squares, nourished by the soundscape of the Minorite church and the museums of the art mile, resounding to the ethnographic music of Glatt & Verkehrt, the cacophony of tourists’ voices, and the avant-garde Danube Festival, and alternating tastes between Federspiel white wine and juicy apricots…

HM Lang Wine Press / Tzou Lubroth Architekten

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Mr. & Mrs. Lang are vintners producing exceptional organic wines from their vineyards terraced above the Danube at the beginning of the Wachau valley. Mr. Lang comes from an engineering background and commissioned us to reinterpret a traditional manual timber wine press in contemporary terms. Wine presses of this kind stem back to the Roman Empire.