wien Projects 13 Created 19-Mar-14 By CHOI JINYOUNG, SEOUL, South Korea Sofitel Vienna Jean Nouvel hotel, mixed-use development Krautgarten Alt-Erlaa social housing Haustrift Red Room Branch Bank Building T-Center St Marx 9 Looshaus 10 LEE Residential Housing 11 Querkraft s housing 5 Hundertwasserhaus 12 Friedensreich Hundertwasser apartment, landmark, office 6 Gasometer City 13 Coop Himmelb(l)au apartment, office, renovation, shopping centre 7 Günther Domenig housing, office 4 Soehne & Partner Architekten bar, club Schlachthausgasse Adolf Loos commercial space, housing SUPERBLOCK housing 3 H Glück & Partner mixed-use development, social housing Coop Himmelb(l)au housing, youth house caramel architekten housing 2 Spittelau Viaducts 14 Zaha Hadid s housing 8 Günther Domenig congress centre, office http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 1
photo: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek photo: Nazar Leskiw Sofitel Vienna Praterstrasse 1 1020 Vienna http://wwwsofitel-vienna-stephansdomcom/en Situated on the bank of the Danube Canal, this mixed-use high-rise marks, together with Hans Holbein's "Media Tower" across the street, one of Vienna's historic entries into the city The building complex includes a five-star hotel, showrooms and retail, as well conference facilities and a restaurant on the top floor A five-storey volume with a sloping roof forms the base of the building, a glassed-in atrium is revealed behind it Its ceiling, as well as the one that extends from the lobby to the street, and the ceiling of the top-floor restaurant were all designed by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist - they are done in the trompe-l'oeil manner and include several video projections In contrast to these colorful surfaces, all the other interiors of the hotel are done in white, grey and black Project is public! 12-2010 Main designer, Artist Jean Nouvel Pipilotti Rist UNIQA Praterstrasse Projekterrichtungs GmbH, Vienna DinaBM photo: Nazar Leskiw Lobby always open, restaurant on the 18th floor 6:30 to 10:30 pm Walk from Schwedenplatz metro station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 2
photo: Hertha Hurnaus photo: Hertha Hurnaus Krautgarten Am Krautgarten 17 1220 Vienna The property lies in a green zone at the periphery of Vienna and is surrounded by small houses and small apartment complexes The atmosphere that future tenants associate with this site is one of 'living in green surroundings', ideally: one's own house and garden the intention is to also convey this atmosphere in the housing project itself The individual apartments are designed as separate houses with multiple floors and various views of the surroundings the individual units are interlocked and fit together to create the overall structure, although the krautgarten project is a four-story building, each individual living unit was designed to be as self-contained as possible photo: Hertha Hurnaus Project is not public! 1-2011 caramel architekten Bauhilfe Gemeinnützige gmbh caramel http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 3
photo: etimo photo: etimo Alt-Erlaa social housing Anton Baumgartner Straße 131 1230 Vienna http://wwwalt-erlaaat/ The largest housing estate the architect has ever created, incorporating the concept of a green city There are more than 3000 apartments above a communicating garage system with about 3500 parking places, each of them located under the building Therefore the city-park green-areas have a width of approximately 180m They are placed between the buildings whose first 13 floors are terraced in a parabolic configuration and don't have annoyance from any traffic 3 buildings connected through an infrastructural axle - a mall - are the location of shops, a sports centre a church and an underground station on the same height level photo: etimo Project is public! 1-2001 240000 m² H Glück & Partner GESIBA etimo Subway line U6 direction Siebenhirten stop Alt Erlaa; by bike from downtown; rechable http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 4
photo: Hertha Hurnaus photo: Hertha Hurnaus Haustrift Dammhaufengasse 12-26 1020 Vienna Overlooking the vast green expanse of the Vienna Prater, with the Danube River literally right at the doorstep, the HAUSTRIFT row-house community (a project by architects Superblock in cooperation with Johnny Winter) is an indisputable eye-catcher The concept captivates with an elegant combination of affordable and ecologically sustainable prefabricated modular design, featuring built-in flexibility of use for each individual residential unit Each component of the community blends into an organic, vibrant whole photo: Hertha Hurnaus Project is not public! 2012 6750 m² Main designer, SUPERBLOCK Johnny Winter ÖSW Österreichisches Siedlungswerk superblock http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 5
photo: Alexander Koller photo: Alexander Koller Red Room Stubenring 20 1010 Vienna http://wwwred-roomat/ Continuing its previous work for the Comida Restaurant in Vienna, Söhne & Partners transformed the basement of the eatery into a modestly decorated space-age club: the Red Room Cloaked entirely in one shade of red velvet, Red Room's walls, ceiling and furniture merge into one another, connecting the different areas and providing a stark contrast to the club's polished white flooring and several other white features, including the bar and DJ deck Influenced by the 1968 science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a classic co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the interior radiates an air of calmness enhanced by a sense of sheer lightness Söhne & Partner clad nearly all surfaces of the club in velvet to add character to the interior design Adding a dimension of flexibility to the seating arrangement, red poufs scattered liberally throughout the club float like globules of blood on the translucent grid of white glass photo: Alexander Koller Project is public! 12-2005 125 m² Interior architect Soehne & Partner Architekten Sunshine Enterprises soehne_partner 2100-0200 Tram: 1 or U3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 6
photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Michiel van Loon Branch Bank Building Favoritenstraße 118 1100 Vienna The functional interior space of the Branch Bank Building of the Z-Bank in Vienna can be read from outside The interacting, half-storey displaced floors are summarized in one single room, which connects the out-and-inside with its overhanging 'mouth' Veins of movement and rest areas are determing the general use The municipal use in the upper floors is elevated - 'the house with the kink' The shape of the roof is adding up to the whole of the building and links the sky to the ground Concrete, steel and metal are the dominating materials Each material appears in the way it was manufactured Construction and technical installations are displayed open All of these architectural elements are part of the design, linked to the whole appearance of the building and also to the neighbourhood The interaction of these parts is resulting in the complex unity of this kind of architecture (text from website architect) Project is public! 1979 1100 m² Günther Domenig Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank Wien photo: Kornspeicher Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 7
photo: Wojtek Gurak photo: Wojtek Gurak T-Center St Marx Rennweg 97-99 1030 Vienna http://wwwt-mobileat/unternehmen/daten_fakten/t_cente r/indexhtml The striking T-Center St Marx was designed and built by architect Günther Domenig Completed in 2004, the project has 119000 m2 of usable floor space and contains offices for 3000 employees Unusually proportioned, the building can be described as a reclining structure 60m high and 255m long with a 40m wing cantilevering out From a town-planning perspective this building represents the first step in the development of a new district on the site of the former St Marx abattoir and cattle sheds The T-Center St Marx is not only an office building for its owner, T-Mobile, it's also a large sculpture Domenig wanted to create a 280 meter long horizontal skyscraper and ended up with what is quite possibly the most unique office building in Vienna (text from Princeton ural Press and Michael Hierner) photo: Wojtek Gurak Public access unknown! 2004 134000 m² Associate architect Associate architect Günther Domenig Herfried Peyker Hermann Eisenköck T-Mobile Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 8
photo: Michiel van Loon photo: Wojtek Gurak Schlachthausgasse Schlachthausgasse 30 1030 Vienna At the end of 1998, the Mautner-Markhof Children's Hospital in the 3rd district of Vienna was closed In 1999 the municipality explored alternative development possibilities for the vacant area A limited design competition was held, from which Coop Himmelb(l)au emerged as the winner The architects suggested to conserve to a large extent the valuable trees existing along the Kleingasse and set two slim building volumes in line with the street Slachthausgasse in order to return the urban block into it's previously defined form The complex now contains 82 apartments and approximately 12000 m2 of office space The 6+1-storey building is individually differentiated by sculpturally protruding building components In the so-called 'Head Building' oriented toward the south, a youth centre with own meeting spaces is the basement is integrated (text from website architects) Project is not public! 2005 21605 m² Coop Himmelb(l)au GPA - WBV / Kleingasse ProjektierungsGesmbH photo: Wojtek Gurak Michiel_van_Loon http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 9
photo: Sebastian van Damme photo: Sebastian van Damme Looshaus Michaelerplatz 3 1010 Vienna http://wwwadolfloosat/looshaus/ The Looshaus in Vienna (also known as the Goldman & Salatsch Building) is regarded as one of the most important structures built in the Wiener Moderne The building marks the rejection of historicism, as well as the ornaments used by the Wiener Secession Adolf Loos received the assignment in 1909, and the building was finished in 1910 Upon opening, its appearance shocked Vienna's citizens, since their overall taste was still very much historically oriented Because of the lack of ornaments on the façade, people called it the 'house without eyebrows' photo: Sebastian van Damme Project is public! 1910 Adolf Loos Goldman & Salatsch Michiel_van_Loon Mo, Tue, Wed, Fri: 09hr- 15hr Thu: 09hr - 17:30hr http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 10
photo: Piotr Krajewski LEE Residential Housing Leebgasse 46 A-1100 Vienna This is a housing block with an open plan and essentially organised shell: the living division of which can be freely chosen by the client The orientation of the house can be decided by whoever uses it Morning sun, afternoon sun and a new orientation are all possible The service spaces are all compactly organised in the core, which makes room for an enormous bathroom An elementary, comfortable window bench invites you to take a seat This bench lies on the same level as the balcony Sunlight streams in through the elevated timber balcony deep into the house photo: Piotr Krajewski Project is not public! 9-2004 1100 m² Querkraft s GPA - WBV pkrajewski_pl http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 11
photo: Lucian Ilica Hundertwasserhaus Kegelgasse 34-38 1035 Vienna http://wwwhundertwasserhausinfo/ The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment complex in Vienna,, designed by n artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser It was built between 1983 and 1986 by architects Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan Hundertwasser was not paid, stating that it was worth it, to prevent something ugly from being erected The house features a very organic design, with its uneven floors and plentiful flora Its roof is covered in grass and trees are grown from within, their limbs extending from the windows There are 52 apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces, and a total of 250 trees and bushes There are also artificial trees; the columns that can be seen reminded Hundertwasser of trees The windows and mosaic tiles are laid out not in a grid, but in a more playful organic way, with crooked angles Project is not public! 3-1986 1092 m² Main designer, Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser Joseph Krawina Peter Pelikan Robin photo: Evgenia Kononova The Hundertwasserhaus is walking distance from the Wien Mitte train station and Landstraße subway station which is served by lines U3 and U4 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 12
photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Gasometer City Guglgasse 6 1110 Vienna http://wwwwiener-gasometerat/indexhtmlen These 4 gas holders, known as gasometer were built in 1896 as part of the gasworks at Simmering After they were closed down, the 4 historic towers were renovated, converted into apartments, shopping malls and offices and reopened in 2001 When they were built, the gasometers were the largest in Europe They are listed by the country s heritage ministry as outstanding examples of industrial architecture The renovation goal was to reuse the external façades of the existing buildings, avoiding total demolition of the building and minimizing the generation of demolition waste The gigantic size of this construction project is illustrated by the fact that Vienna's Giant Ferris Wheel would easily fit into each of the four 75-metre high gasometers Project is public! 2001 42880 m² Main designer, Coop Himmelb(l)au Jean Nouvel Manfred Wedhorn Wilhelm Holzbauer City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott photo: Dirk Verwoerd There are very different opening hours for different functions, like the cinema, shopping malls, offices to see it all, visit http://wwwgasometerat/ From Westbahnhof take U-bahn U3 directly to the Gasometer, with direction Simmering (about 20 min) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 13
photo: Bjorn Utpott photo: Bjorn Utpott Spittelau Viaducts Spittelauer Lände 1090 Vienna The project is part of a revitalization initiative undertaken by the city of Vienna for the Wiener Guertel, an over-dimensioned, ring-formed slice through the urban fabric The site is formed via the culmination of densely overlapping infrastructural elements: the Spittelauer Leande is one of Vienna s most highly traveled roadways; the Danube Canal connecting Germany to Hungary The housing is built along the Donaukanal, over Otto Wagner s elevated metro viaduct photo: Bjorn Utpott Project is not public! 2006 Zaha Hadid s City of Vienna Bjorn_Utpott U-Bahn (underground) lines U4 and U6, exit at Spittelau station http://wwwmimoaeu/users/jy/guides/wien/ 14