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Category: Architecture, Industry, Selected Tags: Architects Collective, Austria, Courtyard architecture, Winery, Wolfgang Thaler
Erich Sattler Winery, is just few kilometers away from the Leeb Fruit Orchard (featured in March 2010) that recently have been completed by Architects Collective. The project is located in the village of Tadten, a typical village in the Austrian wine region of Burgenland along the border to Hungary. The property is 12 x 120 [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Austria, Cladding, Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten, Iconic architecture, Paul Ott, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair
The 1970’s lecture hall building of the Montan university Leoben has been extensively refurbished to meet current standards. In addition to an energy refit, the upgrading of the whole building technology and adaption to suit the needs of the physically disadvantaged the building’s range of functions was extended. An elevated structure was placed in front [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Austria, Loft, Schlosser + Partner, Stair, White
Designed by Schlosser + Partner, the concept “Black or White“ is the underlying idea of a radical new design for an urban apartment in the north of Graz. Modern architecture has transformed a two-storey apartment built in the 1990s into a multi-functional loft serving as home and office. Whereas the owners see the apartment as [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Atelier Thomas Pucher, Austria, Cladding, Modular design
In Graz, Austria, NIK is the recently completed office building project by Austrian architectural firm Atelier Thomas Pucher & Bramberger. Nikolaiplatz as it stands today was a process of conversional development which took its shape over a period of time. While the architectural style (as well as the desired building density) changed, the site layout [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architectural video, Austria, Glass, GSarchitects, Iconic architecture
Elegant and smooth, the ‘black Panther‘s composes eagerness and speed to the urban architecture. GSarchitects An architectonic punctuation at an exposed site of the city – a new and distinctive Entree to the city – a future oriented potential for development for the whole area. Putting a company into the spotlight means transforming a philosophy [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Austria, Events/News
Graz is the first Austrian City of Design! On 16. 03. 2011 the Director – General of UNESCO in Paris, Ms Irina Bokova, officially announced the inclusion of Graz into the international network of creative cities. The designation “City of Design” is not a “title” in the classic sense of the word, but rather an [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Austria, Escalator, LOVE architecture, Modular design, Refurbishment / Extension, Shopping complex, Skin, White
Austrian architectural practice LOVE architecture & urbanism has completed the refurbishment project – the new Gerngross! located in Styria. 1. Restructuring the Existing Centre The layout of the store was not intuitive. Walkways were complex and confusing, and it was difficult to navigate. To improve this, the layout of the indoor levels (G, 1st, 2nd, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Austria, Courtyard architecture, Franz Architekten, Minimalism, Swimming pool
Streckhof Reloaded is a family house designed by Austria-based firm Franz Architekten. The spatial organization is clearly divided and determined by 3 volumes (parking, living, sleeping) linked up by a glazed passageway. Viewing from the street, the first black box serves as the parking and storage spaces with the entrance located in between. Once entering [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Atelier Mauch, Austria, Franz Architekten, Landscape architecture
Franz Architekten, in collaboration with Atelier Mauch have completed the FK Austria Wien Training Academy in Vienna, Austria. The academy training grounds of the junior teams of Austria Vienna – one of the most traditional football clubs in Austria – lies close to the ‘Franz Horr Stadium’. They include a training hall and three grass [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Austria, Balcony, Cladding, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Glass, Paul Ott, Pichler & Traupmann, Random pattern, Stair
Austrian architectural firm Pichler & Traupmann Architekten recently has completed a new office for the Raiffeisen Finance Center in Eisenstadt, Austria. The design of the building playfully responds to the restrictions imposed by the building regulations as well as to the schedule of accommodation for the different floors, and develops an encasing figure that encloses [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Austria, Lighting concept, Manfred Kielnhofer, Modern Chair, Recycle
Manfred Kielnhofer has created the Environment Friendly Paper Tube Chair. The armchairs were made from used cardboard tubes, they are durable and still retained good condition since their production in 2002 even have been used for various events. Interlux chair is made of plexiglas and neon light. You can also change the light tubes easily [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Austria, Lighting concept, Manfred Kielnhofer
The Austrian designer Manfred Kielnhofer imagines the “Light Guards“, lamps sculptural-like fabric draped silhouettes. Size and enigmatic among religious figures and phantoms, those strange lights outside are made of polyester and equipped with energy saving lamps 32 W. + Designer: Manfred Kielnhofer
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