Tillner&Willinger create an outstanding office building with boldly curving, elliptical lines for one of the most exciting hubs of the city, set above the Stadtbahn arches of Spittelau. The lightweight steel-glass structure contrasts with the massive viaducts and encompasses a sickle-shaped courtyard.

• Bauzeit: 2006-2008
• PlanerIn: Architekten Tillner & Willinger, RAHM Architekten
• Building type: Office and government
• Reachability: U4/U6 Spittelau
• Accessibility: Ground-floor restaurant during business hours
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

The strikingly curving structure with its transparent, oblique façade is situated at the urbanistically highly significant intersection of Döblinger Gürtel and Heiligenstädter Strasse directly above the historic Stadtbahn arches. The form of the building follows the line of the former Stadtbahn track layout and half encircles a sickle-shaped courtyard used by restaurants and bars.

• Bauzeit: 2006-2007
• PlanerIn: Bulant & Wailzer
• Client: Stadt Wien
• Building type: Traffic
• Reachability: U4/U6 Spittelau
• A sophisticated bridge structure done in concrete, steel and glass and designed by the architectural studio Bulant & Wailzer provides pedestrians and bikers with a practical and aesthetically appealing crossing between the 9th and 19th municipal districts.
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

The conversion and overall rehabilitation of the former Clima Villa Hotel (Ernst Hiesmayr, 1967) into a new residential complex is characterised both by an excellent location among vineyards and unobstructed view of Vienna and by the respect paid to the original architectural concepts. A representative lobby offers access to 20 loft-style flats; an indoor swimming-pool and wine cellar complete the classy ensemble.

• Bauzeit: 2004-2006
• PlanerIn: Hans Peter Petri
• Client: AIV Generali
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: tram D, stop: Nußdorf/Beethovengang, 10 minutes walk
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

The vigorously renewed premises of the former Café Grillparzer in a prominent Gründerzeit location along the western Gürtel house a new café (already popular with a trendy crowd) offering Latin American coffee varieties. The fully glazed front enlarges the spacious sitting zone – panelled with stained birch plywood – into the city.

• Bauzeit: 1995-1996
• PlanerIn: Ganahl Ifsits Architekten
• Client: Fischer & Lechnitz GesmbH
• Building type: Hotel and restaurants
• Reachability: U6 Nußdorferstraße, tram 37/38, stop: Nußdorferstraße
• Accessibility: During business hours
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

This one-kilometre-long, relatively narrow “superblock" is emblematic of the Social Democratic housing estate of 1920s to 1930s Vienna. The elongated façade fronts of the monumental main volume hide numerous small and very small flats (originally, there were 1,382 for roughly 5,500 inhabitants). High archways open to a greened interior courtyard with former common facilities, such as a bathhouse and washhouse.

• Bauzeit: 1926-1930
• PlanerIn: Karl Ehn
• Client: Stadt Wien
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U4 Heiligenstadt
• Foto: Rupert Christanell