Interiors

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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.