Completed

The idea for the project originated in the desire to create a public living room in midst the city. A café emerged as the final product after refurbishing a town house in Bregenz. At first, almost a private luxury – for the building owner and the architect lived at the house too – it was certainly unusual in the ...

Schauspielhaus

Wien

Schauspielhaus

The theater hall of the Schauspielhaus in Vienna’s Porzellangasse is located under the courtyard of a house from the Gründerzeit era. The foyer facing the streetside seeks to attract attention and spark the interest of visitors. The short pathway to the lower level via angular staircases has been fashioned as a ...

Doppelhaus Alszeile

Wien

Doppelhaus Alszeile

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Aparthotel Adagio City

Wien

Aparthotel Adagio City

Das zentral und sehr prominent am Donaukanal, einem der dynamischsten und aufstrebendsten Stadträume Wiens, gelegene Gebäude bietet sich für eine hochwertige Hotelnutzung geradezu an. Die weitläufigen repräsentativen Strassenräume, die innerstädtische Flussslandschaft und die bedeutende historische und moderne ...

LOBAUGASSE

Wien

LOBAUGASSE

The Viennese settlement movement of the early 1920s has become legendary. This unofficial alternative to the large housing estates was characterized by own initiative, do-it-yourself construction and self-determination. A second wave followed in the early 1950s north of the Danube. Today these verdant areas form a ...

ULMER-AREAL

DORNBIRN

ULMER-AREAL

DORNBIRN

Until 2002, the Ulmer Areal in Dornbirn served as the headquarters building for the largest sanitation and tools wholesaler in Austria. The 12,000 sq.m property is located between Innenstadt and Oberdorf. When the plot became empty, it spurred a multi-year project development phase which envisioned largely housing ...

SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Salzburg

SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Salzburg

The extension to the Kuchl campus was completed as a modern timber construction in September 2009, being the first university building to conform to passive house standard. The building occupants were to engage in their activities at a university location that puts the academic focus of “Timber, design and ...

House A

Dornbirn

House A

Kehlegg is a hamlet just above Dornbirn, together with Ebnit and Watzenegg, it is an Alpine site among the villages that formed the city which is known today as Dornbirn. The location at the end of a winding Alpine road may have made economic conditions for the surrounding farms more difficult compared to the Rhine ...

House LK

Hard

House LK

Hard

The architectural solution stages a play of two cubes stacked on top of each other. Their delicate appearance conjures up lightness that contrasts with the dimension as well as the choice of material, “heavy” exposed concrete. This tension between the image of the house and the provoked experience-based ...

Sport Center ETH Hönggerberg

Zurich

Sport Center ETH Hönggerberg

Zurich

The campus of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Hönggerberg/Zurich is currently undergoing energetic expansion. New additions will be a sport facility on the east side of the property, adjacent to the recreational area of Käferberg. The structure interprets the ...

HYPO

Bregenz

HYPO

This was once the site of the Montfort, a hotel built in Bregenz in 1877 during the Gründerzeit era. In 1921, architect Willibald Braun erected an adjoining and historicizing building with a neo-classicist façade for the Provincial Parliament of Vorarlberg. The hotel, the “Graues Haus” (grey house), served ...

Secondary school

Klaus

Secondary school

Klaus

The new secondary school marks the beginning of a graduated arrangement of large structures along the smoothly curving street. Exorbitant costs of operation called for introducing clear economic and energy guidelines when announcing the competition for the design of the urgently needed refurbishment of the old school ...

EXHIBITION

MERAN

EXHIBITION

MERAN

Vorarlberg, the westernmost province of Austria, offers a fertile ground for high-quality architecture. The building artists, who attracted interest internationally as pioneers in the 1980s, were succeeded by a generation that returned to the country after studying and practicing their trade, to now benefit from the ...

Haus FN

Wien

Haus FN

Set amid the sloping foothills of the Alps in Eastern Switzerland and seamed by deep valleys, the village of Urnäsch is located at ca. 800 meters above sea level on the bank of the identically named river, meandering through the slightly wider bottom of the valley. The vacation village stretches just east of the ...

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REKA vacation village

Urnäsch

REKA vacation village

Urnäsch

Velag- Areal

Bregenz

Velag- Areal

In Braike, an area framed by the vast curved track of the Federal Railway of Austria that cuts through the alluvium located west of the center of Bregenz, the animal feed manufacturer Velag was the last industrial plant to be closed down in 2003. Like the neighboring areas, this site was subsequently developed for ...

Residential and office building Flachgasse

Wien-Rudolfsheim

Residential and office building Flachgasse

Wien-Rudolfsheim

The former hardware factory Grünwald, established in 1907 and smoothly transformed into a design furniture wholesaler by Matthäus Jiszda in 1981, had already attracted Friedrich Achleitner’s attention, who included it in his guide “Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century”. The spacious structure with the ...

Angelika Kauffmann Museum

Schwarzenberg

Angelika Kauffmann Museum

Schwarzenberg

Placed on a rising slope, west of the village centre, two small museums have been established in a historic and well-kept “Wälderhaus” (house in the woods). The former living area serves as a local museum and is characterized by the typical bowery anteroom, which the people of Bregenzerwald call ...

Mühlweg housing estate

WIEN

Mühlweg housing estate

WIEN

In the northwest of Vienna and northeast of the Danube, a second plateau commences before the vineyards of Bisamberg Hill. The development of the former agricultural parcels stretches between the old villages built around a village green. The planners′ approach was an open structure comprising four buildings to ...

Supermarket Eurospar

Bregenz-Vorkloster

Supermarket Eurospar

Bregenz-Vorkloster

North of the Rheinstraße, in the Bregenzerach delta, industrial enterprises have set up operations in an area known as “Neuamerika. Increasing urbanisation also saw the establishment of a supermarket. A giant sign made of perforated trapezoidal copper sheet, which spans the entire horizontal scale of the building ...

House F

Bezau

House F

Bezau

Single-family houses such as this one are one of those distinguished examples of a contemporary typology. Their functionality no longer follows the patterns of peasant life, but rather embodies a haven for the family in a fairly peaceful setting. The traditional forms of modern architecture are enhanced by the texture ...

Event Center Festspielhaus

Bregenz

Event Center Festspielhaus

Located on the waterfront in Bregenz, the Festspielhaus was refurbished and extended in several stages to a multi-use complex boasting an event and convention centre. The exclusive architecture of the edifice defines its lakefront setting by creating a characteristic structure with its four highly plastic ...

HOUSE D

Mauren

HOUSE D

Mauren

The architectural design pays homage to the view and the orientation of the site near the state border of Austria and Liechtenstein. This unique situation offers a magnificent view of the Rhine Valley in Vorarlberg, which must not be obstructed by new development. The three-story building, sited on the south-eastern ...

Stadthalle F

Vienna

Stadthalle F

Vienna

The new Hall F is an ingenious addition to the previously less developed southeast side of the monumental complex of Wiener Stadthalle, creating impact even on its own. The concert, show, dance, fashion and even circus venue sits 2,000 spectators. Furthermore, congresses and conventions can be facilitated. Even though ...

House A

Davos

House A

Davos

“This house is not furniture, but culture molded with the interiors.” Not only writers, but even craftsmen become poetic when they describe the perfect interplay of a concept and its implementation. This euphoria was prompted by the refurbishment of a traditional vacation home that has gradually transformed ...

House H

Prague

House H

Prague

One of the characteristic features of modernism is to create space through the specific and reduced Setzung (i.e. German for accentuation) of walls and openings. In a rather ordinary residential area in the Czech Republic, one of the traditional countries of modernism, this design approach brought forth a family ...

House S

Lech am Arlberg

House S

Lech am Arlberg

The house of the Lecher family is situated right at the edge of the red hazard zone. Masses of snow roll closely past the house, when the annual avalanche at the Omesberg is set off by an explosion. The power of the blast was therefore included in the technical parameters of the support structure. Heavy wooden gates ...

At the harbour

Bregenz

At the harbour

The multi-building complex creates an urban section at a key location of the city, which has an integrating effect, both spatially and functionally, and which yet remains autonomous. Together with the opposite buildings of the technical school, which were built in the 1930s and 1990s, it constitutes the beginning or ...

Fire station building

Mellau

Fire station building

Mellau

The dual-purpose medium-size structure is located on the right bank of the Mellenbach that runs through the loosely clustered village, before it joins the Bregenzerach, the main river of the valley. The design concept reminds of a fluvial terrace and pays homage to the topography; both longitudinal sides of the ...

Obsthof Sedelmaier

Thallern

Obsthof Sedelmaier

Thallern

Beim Obsthof Sedelmaier wuchs der Entwurf aus den Bedingungen des Ortes heraus: Rektanguläre Wegenetze und Parzellenstrukturen neben den „patchworkartigen Webmustern“ der Weinspaliere und Obstkulturen bilden das Grundmuster. Rechteckige und rechtwinkelige Baukörper liegen ruhig und flach gelagert, betonen ...

VILLA POHL

BREGENZ

VILLA POHL

BREGENZ

On the city limits of Bregenz Villa Pohl perched above the foot of the Pfänder, presenting itself in a rather dilapidated shape and no longer adequate for modern living. The old building was not replaced by stacked apartments with similar layouts, but instead four maisonette flats were built in the style of ...

Office am See

Bregenz

Office am See

Der turmartige Hauptbaukörper befindet sich an der Seestraße an einer Stelle, wo die großvolumige Bebauungsstruktur in einen Abschnitt mit kleinteiliger städtebaulicher Körnung übergeht, bevor die Stadtkante am See von den Kulturinstitutionen Museum, Theater und Kunsthaus gebildet wird. Der vertikale Akzent ...

Business enterprise Lehner. Schölmberger GmbH

Eferding

Business enterprise Lehner. Schölmberger GmbH

Eferding

The full-service provider for exhibition stand construction and shopfitting was given an exhibition and administration building, facing towards the main road. The entrance building serves many purposes: as a portal, company logo, large shop window and lobby. It adds a diligently designed flair to the mixed-use ...

Letzi

Zumikon

Letzi

Zumikon

A south sloping site at the edge of the woods with a stunning view: it was a good decision decades ago to build a traditional mansion with a tent roof in this park-like setting. Altered needs and a change of generations called for compaction. Despite the obligatory though considerable distance from the woodlands, a ...

Special exhibition “New Alpine Residences”

New York

Special exhibition “New Alpine Residences”

New York

“Austria West”, the successful traveling exhibition on the contemporary architecture of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, curated by architecture critic Liesbeth Wächter-Böhm, also made a stopover in New York in 2004. There, – most Americans live in single-family houses – an additional show was intended to ...

Community Center

Bregenz

Community Center

Set amid the perimeter block pattern development dating from the Gründerzeit era, the community center is built in a corner position. The structure enters into a volumetric dialogue with the adjacent building, the former site of an electrical company that was established by architect Wilhelm Braun jr. in the 1960s ...

House Ö

Bregenz

House Ö

Through its form and position on the site the angular structure defines not only the entrance, but also the private living quarters, which are shielded from outside views, creating a deliberate separation from the main access road of the residential area. The house is accessed via an entrance court on the basement ...

Kindergarten and rehearsal room

Egg

Kindergarten and rehearsal room

Egg

Already situated at the bottom of the valley, south of the village center and close to the Bregenzerach, were two large school complexes and a biomass heating plant as well as a generous parking lot that is frequently used by the members of the choir and the brass ensemble, when they rehearse on the upper floor of the ...

House N

Dornbirn

House N

Far above the city of Dornbirn, where farmed land terminates, only a few houses are adjacent to this residence and haven of calm close to the woodlands. Three stories create a terraced landscape with separate interior and exterior spaces. A few architectural gestures suffice to offer a combination of privacy and a ...

Museum Inatura

Dornbirn

Museum Inatura

Development had already reached the area surrounding the Rüschwerke in Dornbirn, when operations were suspended at the heavy industry plant. Reducing the structure to essential building units and adapting it to a culturally used space housing the regional natural history museum Inatura lent the premises, encompassed ...

Haus K

Schwarzenberg

Haus K

Schwarzenberg

Das Zwillingshafte, das Duale, bestimmt das Wesen dieses Hauses. Fest verankert im Gelände sitzt es mit seiner Schindelung aus Lärchenholz ganz selbstverständlich in der Landschaft. Auf dem steilen Hanggrundstück, nahe der Verbindungsstraße vom Bregenzerwald ins Rheintal, sind zwei der vier Geschosse sichtbar, ...

Areal Vorarlberger Kraftwerke

Bregenz

Areal Vorarlberger Kraftwerke

Vor der Fluh des markanten Gebhardsberges liegt ein Stück Auwald an der Bregenzer Ach, an dessen Rand bereits des Ende 19. Jahrhunderts mit Wasserkraft, gespeist durch einen von der Ach abgeleiteten Kanal, Strom produziert wurde. In der Folge diente die Fläche zwischen Weidacher Straße und Au als Werksgelände und ...

House B

Klaus

House B

Klaus

A narrow freight way leads out of the town and disappears behind the hillside, sloping through a rising clearing. Below the path, shielded by a rubble wall and only connected to a wide bridge, the house appears to dock to the hill like a boat. Ready at all times to hoist anchor and leave the locale behind ...

House S

Schaffhausen

House S

Schaffhausen

The client searched a long time for the right property in a peripheral district of Schaffhausen. The plot pertains to a district development plan which has been partly realized. House S was built on one of the last remaining parcels. The design sought to marry the different qualities of the immediate (forest) and ...

House R

Bregenz

House R

Two rhythmical rows of large plates consisting of black-dyed precast concrete units frame the building at its visible side. It points to a private garden and presents itself as an archaic symbol of building tradition. However, the house at the foot of the local mountain of Bregenz was deliberately not designed as a ...

HOUSE F

Lauterach

HOUSE F

Lauterach

The elderly mother of the client lived alone in a small house that had been built in the 1950s with a large garden. The client wanted to create new living space for his family of five and envisioned at first a new building on another property. To be able to take care of the mother and for economic reasons an annex and ...

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Sankt Anton

arlberg.well.com

Sankt Anton

The relocation of the Arlberg railway line from the north-western terrace above the village of Sankt Anton to the less sun-spoiled, shaded side of the valley provided a unique opportunity for the development of the health resort. The generously laid out facility including a multi-purpose hall, spa and a restaurant ...

Deli am Naschmarkt, café/restaurant

Wien-Wieden

Deli am Naschmarkt, café/restaurant

Wien-Wieden

Aside from the main market row, Naschmarkt, one of the most famous Viennese markets for fruits, vegetables and Levantine specialties, features an adjoining row, where shops have ceased to prosper long ago. This section has attracted numerous popular “Beisel” (small cafés) with attractive outdoor dining areas.

WALCH’S EVENT CATERING

LUSTENAU

WALCH’S EVENT CATERING

LUSTENAU

The production building′s flat ashlar, 50m in length, belongs to a group of enterprises located in an open field in the feeding area of a highway access road. Its compact structure consolidates storage, production, supply and administrative premises in a single, pure and geometrical form. The roofed exterior was ...

House L

Bregenz

House L

With a long-drawn left-hand bend, the ascending streetlet circumvents the gentle hollow of a slope, loosely developed with single-family dwellings. The house, an ashlar with a differentiated front, is integrated in the upper part, on declivous ground. The broad side enjoys its exposure to the south and a view upon a ...

Weizeneggerweg

Bregenz

Weizeneggerweg

At the lower end of the Pfänder hill, just before the foot of the slope starts to open out flatly, a large garden had remained vacant between the strip of beech woods and a manor house dating back to the early 20th century. Perhaps the reason was a tower house located in front of the garden upon a Y-shaped ground ...

Kindergarten

Lustenau

Kindergarten

Lustenau

The long-drawn block of group rooms with a short, diagonally placed upper end is located within a square housing estate loosely occupied by single-family houses. On the south-side, a frame of broad panels reunites the construction, rhythmised by three bigger units, while creating a loggia-like transition into the ...

House I

Schwarzenberg

House I

Schwarzenberg

One older and another more recent house are located in the village’s southeast, on the edge of a plateau gathering the buildings of a small hamlet. Their faces enjoy a view over a meadow-covered terrace giving to the valley of the Bregenzer Ach river. The mighty Kanisfluh stands in the south. The house’s design ...

House H

Dornbirn

House H