As Austria’s biggest cultural complex, the MuseumsQuartier set within the revitalised ensemble of the former imperial stables dating from the 18th and 19th centuries constitutes an urbanistic axis that links old and new cultural spaces of Vienna through its modern implants, multifaceted institutions, squares and open spaces.

• Bauzeit: 1998-2001
• PlanerIn: O&O Baukunst, Manfred Wehdorn
• Client: Stadt Wien, MUQUA Errichtungs- und Betriebs GmbH, Republik Österreich
• Building type: Urban planning
• Reachability: U2-Museumsquartier, U2/U3-Volkstheater
• Accessibility: The open-air zones are publicly accessible, while the individual museums are accessible during normal opening hours
• A walk from the MuseumsQuartier to the historic city centre leads through the Imperial Palace or Hofburg (J. E. Fischer v. Erlach, J. L. v. Hildebrandt, G. Semper, C. Hasenauer and others, since 1279) – a complex encompassing numerous courtyards and a widely ramified network of individual buildings and wings that has evolved organically since the Middle Ages.
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

This building revitalised by BWM Architekten is used as a design hotel of the 25hours hotel company. A shiny blue glass addition augmented this former student hostel from the 1970s by 3 storeys. The spectacular lobby bar with roof terrace discloses a sensational view of Vienna’s historic city and is open to the general public. The interior design studio Dreimeta created a circus-inspired styling that extends throughout the lobby and all 219 rooms of the hotel.

• Bauzeit: 2010-2013
• PlanerIn: BWM Architekten, Dreimeta
• Building type: Hotel and restaurants
• Reachability: U2/U3 Volkstheater
• Accessibility: During business hours
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

• Bauzeit: 2004-2005
• PlanerIn: Baumschlager Eberle
• Client: MIGRA
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U2 Messe/Prater
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

The most notable stylistic element is a re-interpretation of traditional Viennese block architecture and its characteristic façade structure. Individual buildings designed as multi-unit dwellings for approx. 220 flats encircle courtyard zones and provide for private green spaces. Tranquil ground-floor areas form a base, while staggered loggias and winter-gardens define the façade outlook.

• Bauzeit: 2007-2009
• PlanerIn: NMPB Architekten
• Client: Wohnfonds Wien
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U1-Vorgartenstraße, bus 11A, stop: Hillerstraße
• Accessibility: The open-air zones are publicly accessible
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

In the Gründerzeit period, Ilgplatz was a promenade area that, however, soon fell into disuse. With its patterned pavement, the refurbished square invites passers-by to stroll along a water basin; among the imaginatively styled and varied seat designs for different user groups, the Gründerzeit “green ring” re-emerges in modified and contemporary form.

• Bauzeit: 2003-2004
• PlanerIn: Richard Zeitlhuber, Karin Zeitlhuber
• Client: Stadt Wien
• Building type: Public places
• Reachability: U2 Messe/Prater
• Accessibility: The open-air zone is publicly accessible
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

Peichl und Partner, Norbert Erlach, Gerhard Mossburger, 2003
Situated between Ausstellungsstrasse and Vorgartenstrasse, the new Vienna Trade Fair Centre is composed of a 26-metre-high cylindrical conference building and a 96-metre-high trade fair tower, a steel structure. Both elements boast an aluminium-glass façade; the tower serves no function apart from its signal effect.

• Bauzeit: 2002-2003
• PlanerIn: Peichl und Partner, Norbert Erlach, Gerhard Moßburger, Vasko + Partner Ingenieure
• Client: Stadt Wien, Chefren Leasing GmbH, MBG
• Building type: Museums and exhibitions
• Reachability: U2 Messe/Prater
• Accessibility: The forecourt is publicly accessible, while the fairground only during exhibitons
• Foto: MA19

The new city quarter “Viertel Zwei” is situated on a roughly 40,000-square-metre plot extending between the trotting track, the new Trade Fair Centre, the Vienna Stadium and the new U2 line along Vorgartenstrasse. Extremely varied regarding both facilities and uses, boasting excellent architecture and permeated by interesting open spaces, the different elements - Hoch Zwei, Plus Zwei, Rund Vier, Biz Zwei and Hotel Zwei – emerge proudly along the northern periphery of the Prater.

• PlanerIn: Henke Schreieck Architekten, Martin Kohlbauer, Zechner & Zechner
• Building type: Mixed use
• Reachability: U2 Krieau
• Accessibility: The open-air zones are publicly accessible
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

In October 2013, Europe’s currently largest new university building was inaugurated next to the Vienna Prater. The campus of the new Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) comprises 6 buildings covering an area of 90,000 square metres as well as an intelligently designed open space conceived as a “walk-along park” with different stations. The core of this group of buildings designed by leading international architects is the Library and Learning Centre by Zaha Hadid.
Planned as a “green” building, the project is also to serve as a showcase of ecological and economic sustainability.

• Bauzeit: 2009-2013
• PlanerIn: Landschaftsarchitektur, BOA büro für offensive aleatorik
• Client: BIG, Projektgesellschaft Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Neu GmbH
• Building type: Public places
• Reachability: U2 Messe-Prater, U2 Krieau
• Accessibility: The open-air zones are publicly accessible, while the restaurant/bar zones are accessible during business hours
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

This residential development is dedicated to the overarching theme of intergenerational housing: 3 generations of architects created intelligent solutions to meet the needs of different life phases. The passive house “Wohnregal” by ARTEC acts as an acoustic barrier for the tranquil, village-type residential zone behind it. The uniform use of timber façades conveys a sense of cohesiveness despite the different architectural languages employed.

• Bauzeit: 2010-2011
• PlanerIn: Hermann Czech, Adolf Krischanitz, Werner Neuwirth
• Client: EBG
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U2 Stadlau
• Accessibility: Only from outside
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

The terraced building offers high-quality housing and open-space situations across all storeys. The range of available dwellings comprises single-person attic flats with large terraces, flexible (patchwork) family apartments whose living rooms allow for the partitioning-off of one or two temporary bedrooms if required, as well as an assisted living community for children without a family. The colour design harmonises the thus created diversity to instil a homogenous neighbourhood feeling with a unique identity.

• Bauzeit: 2009-2011
• PlanerIn: AllesWirdGut, feld72
• Client: EGW, ÖVW
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U2 Hardeggasse
• Accessibility: Only exterior visit possible
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

In this Baroque ensemble set in the midst of the popular Augarten park, a modern concert hall for the Vienna Boys’ Choir was built despite some very vociferous protests. The MuTh (Music and Theatre) Hall offers space for 400 spectators. The contemporary architectural style signals the modern continuation of a traditional Viennese cultural heritage.

• Bauzeit: 2010-2012
• PlanerIn: archipel architektur kommunikation
• Client: Wiener Sängerknaben Konzertsaal Betriebs- GmbH
• Building type: Theater and concert
• Reachability: U2 Taborstraße
• Accessibility: During business hours
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

VinziRast-mittendrin is an innovative housing project where students and formerly homeless persons live, learn and work together. The project idea was inspired during the protests against access restrictions to Austrian universities in 2009, when students also opened the doors of occupied lecture halls to the homeless. This well-located Gründerzeit building rehabilitated by gaupenraub +/- accommodates 10 living communities for 27 residents, attractive shared spaces and a café/restaurant accessible to the general public.

• Bauzeit: 2012-2013
• PlanerIn: gaupenraub +/-
• Client: Verein Vinzenzgemeinschaft St. Stephan
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U2 Schottentor, tram 37/38/40/41/42, stop: Schwarzspanierstraße
• Accessibility: Cafe/Restaurant during business hours
• Foto: Christian Fürthner

The aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside project is one of Europe’s biggest urban development ventures. On this former airfield, a new urban quarter offering 20,000 workplaces and housing for another 20,000 residents is to emerge until 2028. The centre of the Urban Lakeside is formed by a large lake set in the midst of a spacious park. Although the first residents will not move in before late 2014, the U2 Vienna Underground line was extended already in 2013 to this huge area, where identity-fostering activities take place regularly even before the arrival of the first Lakesiders.

• Bauzeit: 2014
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U2 Seestadt
• Accessibility: construction site
• Foto: Christian Fürthner