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The large Gate of Salutation (Arabic: Bâb-üs Selâm), also known as the Middle Gate (Turkish: Orta Kapı), leads into the palace and the Second Courtyard.
SunTrust (1,890 square feet)
75 Willow Oaks Boulevard, Willow Oaks Village Square, Hampton, VA
This location opened in 2000; it was originally a United Virginia Bank, which opened on September 18th, 1974. It became a Crestar Bank in spring 1987.
Jugendzentrum EPPLE HAUS e.V.
Karlstr. 13 - 72007 Tübingen
Zukünftige Schwerpunkte des Hauses: Es soll Jugendmedien-Zentrum des Kreises werden (Schwerpunkt: Jugendkultur und Musikwerkstatt), angegliedert daran ein „Jugendcafé“.
www.epplehaus.de/EPPLEHAUS/einstieg.htm
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Graffiti, Einzahl Graffito, steht als Sammelbegriff für thematisch und gestalterisch unterschiedliche sichtbare Elemente, zum Beispiel Bilder, Schriftzüge oder sonstige Zeichen, die von Personen mittels verschiedener Techniken auf Oberflächen oder durch Veränderung dieser im privaten und öffentlichen Raum erstellt wurden. Die Graffiti entstehen zumeist anonym und ohne entsprechende Genehmigungen.
Graffitis* sind hier erlaubt und werden wie eine "newspaper wall" verwendet.
*Der Singular ist im Deutschen wenig gebräuchlich und es wird auch von einem Graffiti (und nicht von einem Graffito) gesprochen. In der Folge wird in der Umgangssprache auch der analog gebildete Plural Graffitis häufiger verwendet
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Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.
Romanian Savings Bank Palace (CEC Palace) was completed in 1900 after the design made by the french architect, Paul Gottereau and supervised by the Romanian architect Ion Socolescu.
Before the construction of the palace here was a church demolished in 1875 and an inn.
The palace was built in the eclectic style and it has an impressive glass and metal dome in the center which allows natural light to flow inside and 4 small domes on each corner of the building. The entrance in the palace with its facade reminds the viewer about the Petit Palais from Paris.
It's the headquarter of CEC Bank (the former state savings bank). Acrosss the street we find The National Museum of Romanian History and The Old Center area. Source: www.bucharestcomfort.com/
Architect: Helgo Zettervall
Built in: 1873–1875
Client: Tönnes Wrangel von Brehmer
The castle is situated on an island in Lake Häckeberga. It was built in French Renaissance style, 1873-1875, by Tönnes Wrangel von Brehmer and designed by the architect Helgo Zettervall. The building was renovated in the 1990s. The castle houses a gastronomic restaurant and a hotel.
I cannot believe the price of hotel rooms in Belfast. Last year I was able to get a room for three nights in May at the Ramada Encore for Euro 252 this year they are looking for Euro 406 for the same dates [ and don’t forget that Sterling has dropped against the Euro by about 15% ]. The asking price at the Malmaison is Euro 374. I should mention that these are the prices if your booking can be cancelled or changed free of charge. In 2015 the Ramada charged me Euro 175.50 for three nights.
Malmaison Hotel Belfast is a hotel within a listed building in the city of Belfast. It is on the corner of Victoria Street and Marlborough Street.
It is built in what were two seed warehouses from the 1860s, retaining some original features including iron pillars and beams and carved stone gargoyles. It has 64 rooms, in bordello style, two rock’n’roll theme suites, and a bar and brasserie. It caters for meetings and conferences for up to 22 people. Before becoming the Malmaison it was The McCausland Hotel.
Marylebone Warwick Balfour (MWB) bought the Malmaison boutique hotel group in 2000. In 2004 it bought the McCausland Hotel in Belfast, and reopened it as the Irish Malmaison in December that year.
A very small log cabin found on the back roads of Rockbridge County, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains…
GAZA, PALESTINE, July 19 - The el-Wafa Medical Rehabilitation Hospital, the only hospital specializing in occupational and physical therapy in the Gaza Strip, was damaged by Israeli army shelling that forced its evacuation on July 17. (Photo by Joe Catron)
Flags at half-mast out of respect for the bombing victims in Boston. Thanks for looking but the Good Stuff is on my website: www.misterOphoto.com
PALACETE DANTAS
Informe Histórico Palacete Dantas e Sobrado Narbona – IEPHA-MG (Publicação na íntegra)
"No final do século XIX, iniciou-se a construção da nova capital do Estado, obedecendo às determinações do governo mineiro. Dentro de um planejamento urbano ainda inusitado em Minas, a planta da cidade estabeleceu espaços a serem desenvolvidos segundo sua utilização. Assim, surgiram os primeiros bairros, o centro comercial e o centro administrativo. Em torno deste último, sem dúvida o núcleo mais nobre da cidade, composto pelo Palácio da Liberdade e pelas Secretarias de Estado, desenvolver-se-ia o chamado Bairro dos Funcionários, com diferentes tipos de residências destinadas a abrigar toda a hierarquia do funcionalismo público. O padrão arquitetônico dessas construções oficiais não obedeceu a um estilo definido, predominando as concepções ecléticas, em especial o neoclassicismo. Nelas, foram intensamente utilizados tanto a mão-de-obra especializada como elementos ornamentais importados de origem européia. Num desdobramento da iniciativa oficial, surgiram, nos anos seguintes, inúmeras edificações particulares ou públicas ocupando gradativamente os espaços vazios dos primeiros centros e criando outros. Em 1915, o engenheiro e construtor José Dantas, responsável por diversas dessas construções da capital, encomendou ao arquiteto Luis Olivieri o projeto para a edificação de sua residência, a localizar-se em ponto nobre, ao lado do Palácio governamental. Luis Olivieri, arquiteto e escultor italiano diplomado em Florença, foi elemento integrante da Comissão Construtora e alcançou grande prestígio na capital, tendo realizado grandes obras, como a Estação da Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil. A planta da edificação foi aprovada pela Prefeitura (inscrição de n. 69) e sua construção executada pelo próprio proprietário. O chamado Palacete Dantas distingue-se das demais construções residenciais de sua época por ser produto de um empreendimento particular do mesmo porte e estilo das edificações oficiais que o circundavam. Destinado a abrigar uma família grande e abastada, foi planejado com generosidade de espaços e requinte ornamental. Sua planta dividia-se em dois pavimentos, concentrando os ambientes mais importantes (quartos, salas e cozinha) no segundo. Como o desenho de sua fachada, de 1915, não correspondeu à sua conformação original, é presumível que tenha sido alterada ainda durante as suas obras, possivelmente sob a intervenção do engenheiro José Dantas. Os trabalhos em estuque que ornamentam a fachada foram realizados por uma equipe de italianos. Na ornamentação interna original, foram utilizados tanto elementos importados como a escadaria de ferro trabalhada, procedente da Bélgica, e o lustre de cristal da Boêmia, com trabalhos de artistas regionais, como o parquete do piso e o rodapé da sala de visitas, assinados por M. F. Tunes. Uma das descendentes da família Dantas, Augusta Dantas Luz Pereira, assim descreve esses trabalhos: "Todo feito à maneira de mosaicos, onde se empregaram as mais variadas espécies de madeiras brasileiras em sua cor natural. Assim, na figura da mulher, usou-se para compor o colorido, de seus cabelos, a braúna, a cabiúna e o jacarandá. Repare-se no rodapé da sala de visitas, com seus desenhos geométricos, que mais parece um mostruário de nossas madeiras, entre elas o pau-brasil (o rodapé exposto e premiado em Bruxelas). Outro artista que trabalhou no palacete foi o marceneiro Gabriel Antônio Galante, responsável pela execução de dois tetos (sala de visitas e de jantar) em imbuia trabalhada. Também o mobiliário foi cuidadosamente escolhido." As paredes receberam finos revestimentos: sedas estampadas com moldura dourada (sala de visitas), lambris de meia parede (sala de jantar) e pinturas em motivos musicais na sala de música. Guarnecendo as paredes da copa, foi colocado azulejo branco de meia-parede, com arremate em motivos de cereja em relevo e grega vermelha. Merecem ainda registro outros elementos ornamentais: lavabo em louça pintada, maçanetas e vidros das guarnições das janelas em cristal lilás. Construída de acordo com os padrões estéticos então em voga e tão ricamente montada, a residência dos Dantas tornou-se uma das melhores moradias particulares da capital. Prova disso foi que em 1920 o Palacete hospedou o então presidente do Estado, Arthur Bernardes, quando da visita do rei Alberto, da Bélgica, que se instalou no Palácio da Liberdade.
Após algumas modificações, a partir de junho de 1926, o Palacete Dantaspassou a abrigar o Club Central, atual Automóvel Clube, recém-criadaassociação de lazer da elite da capital. Essas modificações resultaram naalteração de suas divisões internas, como a demolição das paredes dos quartospara a criação de um grande salão de festas (com novo assoalhamento emudança de teto) e a abertura de um arco ligando-o à sala de visitas. As obrasduraram de janeiro a fins de maio, compreendendo também a reformulaçãogeral da decoração interna. Esta e o novo mobiliário ficaram a cargo da CasaLaubisch & Hurt, do Rio de Janeiro, vencedora de uma concorrência estabelecidapelo clube.Reestruturada para sua nova utilização, a edificação passou a possuir amplosalão de festas, salão de recepções, bar e restaurante, sala para senhoras,diversas salas de jogos e outros ambientes elegantes, todos ricamentedecorados em diferentes estilos. O Club Central foi inaugurado em 14 de junhode 1926 e ocupou o Palacete até dezembro de 1929, quando foi transferido paraa sede definitiva.Em 1930, o proprietário José Dantas retornou ao Palacete, instalando-se aí porcurto espaço de tempo. Já em 1931, o imóvel foi cedido ao governo estadualpara hospedagem do presidente Getúlio Vargas e sua comitiva, em visita a BeloHorizonte. Nesta ocasião, o prédio sofreu novas remodelações no seu interior.Ainda servindo a fins oficiais, foi moradia do Dr. Gustavo Capanema, comoSecretário de Estado do governo Olegário Maciel.Nos anos seguintes, o Palacete foi vendido ao Dr. Sílvio Fonseca, passando a seralugado sucessivamente para diferentes instituições. Data daí o início de suadescaracterização e depredação. Conservando sempre sua fachada original, oprédio teve o seu interior inúmeras vezes reformado, perdendo gradativamenteos elementos ornamentais, por exemplo, em 1938, quando o prédio voltou apossuir as divisões entre os quartos para, posteriormente, serem de novodemolidas, como atesta seu estado atual. É possível apontar algumas dasinstituições, em geral educativas, que ali se instalaram: Colégio Sion, ColégioHelena Guerra, Faculdade Cató1ica (1958 a 1963) e FUMEC. Entre 1972 e 1978,o Palacete foi ocupado pela 1ª Delegacia Regional de Ensino, unidade daSecretaria de Educação.Em 1977, o Palacete foi incluído no tombamento do conjunto da Praça daLiberdade, efetuado pelo IEPHA/ MG, medida que objetivou a sua proteçãomediante as constantes depredações e ameaças de demolição. Tombado, oprédio se desvalorizou comercialmente. Em virtude de seu estado já precário,tornou-se difícil a sua venda ou aluguel, como desejavam os herdeiros da famíliaFonseca. Assim, o prédio permaneceu abandonado durante anos, período noqual sofreu sua maior deterioração. Parte do teto caiu, permitindo a entrada dachuva, janelas foram quebradas e o piso em parquete foi arrancado. Desde seutombamento, o Estado planejava a sua aquisição, chegando a criar umacomissão para avaliação, sem resultados concretos. Os jornais iniciaram, em1980, uma campanha pela sua preservação, apontando a compra e restauraçãopelo Estado como a solução ideal para o Palacete. Finalmente, em outubro de1981, o prédio foi adquirido pelo governo estadual, por intermédio doIEPHA/MG. Após sua restauração, passou a abrigar a Coordenadoria hojetransformada em Secretaria de Estado da Cultura.Fonte: Instituto Estadual do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico de Minas Gerais (IEPHA/MG).Sobrado NarbonaA fase de construção da nova capital do Estado, no final do século passado atéaproximadamente a década de 1920, viu serem erguidos em algumas áreas dacidade prédios de certo apuro construtivo, que buscavam assemelhar-se àqueleserguidos por iniciativa oficial. Neste caso, enquadra-se a edificação em estudo,que, como o Palacete Dantas, situa-se em local nobre da Praça da Liberdade, aolado do Palácio e das Secretarias.Essa localização privilegiada contribuiu de forma significativa para que osproprietários de edificações particulares ali erguidas se esmerassem naconstrução de suas residências. Assim fez seu proprietário e construtor FranciscoNarbona, espanhol que veio moço para o Brasil, residindo antes no Rio e em SãoPaulo. Em Belo Horizonte, onde se achava desde os tempos da ComissãoConstrutora, era bastante conhecido. Como construtor, foi longa e intensa suaatividade, não só na capital como em muitas outras cidades do Estado.Francisco Narbona construiu sua residência em período anterior a 1911, pois oÁlbum de Bello Horizonte do referido ano registra esta edificação na página quetraz o titulo "Typos de Casas Particulares". Desconhece-se a data exata daconstrução e autoria do projeto, embora tenha sido localizada a planta original,que está assinada apenas pelo proprietário e não está datada. Presume-se quetenha sido executado na própria firma de Francisco Narbona, que, como já foicolocado, dedicava-se à construção civil.Embora tenha sido construída para residência da família, funcionou no período1917 a 1918 como Faculdade de Odontologia. Posteriormente, para ali setransferiu a família Narbona, que residiu no imóvel até a década de 1940.Em 1941 Francisco Narbona faleceu, e em julho de 1943 o imóvel foi vendidopela viúva, Sra. Salud Caruz de Narbona, conforme escritura lavrada no CartórioBolivar Moreira.Após essa data, há um vazio de informação sobre o uso do prédio, sendoregistrado mais tarde, em 1964, sua ocupação pela Delegacia Geral do Estado e,a partir de março de 1967, pela Fundação Estadual pelo Bem-Estar do Menor(FEBEM).É importante assinalar que, após a aquisição do imóvel pelo Estado,aconteceram não apenas diversas modificações internas para a adaptação anovos usos, como também um acréscimo, construído na área do jardim lateralque ficava na Avenida Cristóvão Colombo, o qual, embora tenha procuradomanter as características externas prédio, ao aproximá-lo excessivamente doPalacete Dantas, impediu a visão das fachadas laterais e prejudicou as duasedificações.Em 1983 o prédio foi cedido à recém-criada Secretaria de Estado da Cultura,que, funcionando ao lado, no Palacete Dantas, necessitava de novos espaçospara sua implantação. Após essa data, iniciaram-se os trabalhos de restauraçãoe adaptação do prédio. Tombado pelo IEPHA/MG, em 10 de agosto de 1977, oSobrado Narbona foi incluído no conjunto arquitetônico e paisagístico da Praçada Liberdade."Fonte: Instituto Estadual do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico de Minas Gerais – Iepha-MG.
I wondered why the path seemed so worn on the way to this abandoned house on a hill near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. Perhaps its long-gone inhabitants return regularly to haunt it.
Berlin Tegel - airport terminal A
Terminal building seen across the apron with the tower and a parked Eurowings airplane
Blick auf das Terminalgebäude über das Vorfeld mit dem Tower und einer geparkten Eurowings Maschine
LH407 New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) - Berlin Tegel (TXL)
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Lufthansa Airbus A330-300 D-AIKH
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View of new York high-rise buildings on a cruise to the shores of New England on board Caribbean Princess visiting the following cities:
New York city and the Statue of Liberty, New York;
Halifax, Saint John and Carlton Martello Tower, Canada; Bar Harbor ME; Boston, and Faneuil Hall, MA; Newport, Rhode Island.
The abandoned Willow Street Steam Plant at 9th & Willow Streets, Philadelphia PA. This was taken from a distance thru a window at the Loews Hotel at 12th & Market Streets while testing the camera's zoom (this is the equivalent to about 440mm zoom).
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This large grand building is on the corner of Barlow Moor Road and Wilmslow Road in DIdsbury, Manchester. It used to be a pub and is now a restaurant.
Hotel Casa Del Mar - Santa Monica, CA.
This is a 7 exposure, 1 E.V. spaced HDR. I used Nik HDR Effects Pro to create it. My camera only shoots 5 shots with a max spacing of 1 E.V., and with the 7 shot mode only offering a max of ⅔ E.V., so the -2 and +2 shots were both duplicated and changed to -3 and +3 E.V.
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Panasonic Lumix G X 12-35mm f/2.8
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Author: Andreas Nierhaus, Curator of Architecture/Wien Museum
Last updated January 2014
Architecture in Vienna
Vienna's 2,000-year history is present in a unique density in the cityscape. The layout of the center dates back to the Roman city and medieval road network. Romanesque and Gothic churches characterize the streets and squares as well as palaces and mansions of the baroque city of residence. The ring road is an expression of the modern city of the 19th century, in the 20th century extensive housing developments set accents in the outer districts. Currently, large-scale urban development measures are implemented; distinctive buildings of international star architects complement the silhouette of the city.
Due to its function as residence of the emperor and European power center, Vienna for centuries stood in the focus of international attention, but it was well aware of that too. As a result, developed an outstanding building culture, and still today on a worldwide scale only a few cities can come up with a comparable density of high-quality architecture. For several years now, Vienna has increased its efforts to connect with its historical highlights and is drawing attention to itself with some spectacular new buildings. The fastest growing city in the German-speaking world today most of all in residential construction is setting standards. Constants of the Viennese architecture are respect for existing structures, the palpability of historical layers and the dialogue between old and new.
Culmination of medieval architecture: the Stephansdom
The oldest architectural landmark of the city is St. Stephen's Cathedral. Under the rule of the Habsburgs, defining the face of the city from the late 13th century until 1918 in a decisive way, the cathedral was upgraded into the sacral monument of the political ambitions of the ruling house. The 1433 completed, 137 meters high southern tower, by the Viennese people affectionately named "Steffl", is a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture in Europe. For decades he was the tallest stone structure in Europe, until today he is the undisputed center of the city.
The baroque residence
Vienna's ascension into the ranks of the great European capitals began in Baroque. Among the most important architects are Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt. Outside the city walls arose a chain of summer palaces, including the garden Palais Schwarzenberg (1697-1704) as well as the Upper and Lower Belvedere of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1714-22). Among the most important city palaces are the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene (1695-1724, now a branch of the Belvedere) and the Palais Daun-Kinsky (auction house in Kinsky 1713-19). The emperor himself the Hofburg had complemented by buildings such as the Imperial Library (1722-26) and the Winter Riding School (1729-34). More important, however, for the Habsburgs was the foundation of churches and monasteries. Thus arose before the city walls Fischer von Erlach's Karlskirche (1714-39), which with its formal and thematic complex show façade belongs to the major works of European Baroque. In colored interior rooms like that of St. Peter's Church (1701-22), the contemporary efforts for the synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture becomes visible.
Upgrading into metropolis: the ring road time (Ringstraßenzeit)
Since the Baroque, reflections on extension of the hopelessly overcrowed city were made, but only Emperor Franz Joseph ordered in 1857 the demolition of the fortifications and the connection of the inner city with the suburbs. 1865, the Ring Road was opened. It is as the most important boulevard of Europe an architectural and in terms of urban development achievement of the highest rank. The original building structure is almost completely preserved and thus conveys the authentic image of a metropolis of the 19th century. The public representational buildings speak, reflecting accurately the historicism, by their style: The Greek Antique forms of Theophil Hansen's Parliament (1871-83) stood for democracy, the Renaissance of the by Heinrich Ferstel built University (1873-84) for the flourishing of humanism, the Gothic of the Town Hall (1872-83) by Friedrich Schmidt for the medieval civic pride.
Dominating remained the buildings of the imperial family: Eduard van der Nüll's and August Sicardsburg's Opera House (1863-69), Gottfried Semper's and Carl Hasenauer's Burgtheater (1874-88), their Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History (1871-91) and the Neue (New) Hofburg (1881-1918 ). At the same time the ring road was the preferred residential area of mostly Jewish haute bourgeoisie. With luxurious palaces the families Ephrussi, Epstein or Todesco made it clear that they had taken over the cultural leadership role in Viennese society. In the framework of the World Exhibition of 1873, the new Vienna presented itself an international audience. At the ring road many hotels were opened, among them the Hotel Imperial and today's Palais Hansen Kempinski.
Laboratory of modernity: Vienna around 1900
Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06) was one of the last buildings in the Ring road area Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank (1903-06), which with it façade, liberated of ornament, and only decorated with "functional" aluminum buttons and the glass banking hall now is one of the icons of modern architecture. Like no other stood Otto Wagner for the dawn into the 20th century: His Metropolitan Railway buildings made the public transport of the city a topic of architecture, the church of the Psychiatric hospital at Steinhofgründe (1904-07) is considered the first modern church.
With his consistent focus on the function of a building ("Something impractical can not be beautiful"), Wagner marked a whole generation of architects and made Vienna the laboratory of modernity: in addition to Joseph Maria Olbrich, the builder of the Secession (1897-98) and Josef Hoffmann, the architect of the at the western outskirts located Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and founder of the Vienna Workshop (Wiener Werkstätte, 1903) is mainly to mention Adolf Loos, with the Loos House at the square Michaelerplatz (1909-11) making architectural history. The extravagant marble cladding of the business zone stands in maximal contrast, derived from the building function, to the unadorned facade above, whereby its "nudity" became even more obvious - a provocation, as well as his culture-critical texts ("Ornament and Crime"), with which he had greatest impact on the architecture of the 20th century. Public contracts Loos remained denied. His major works therefore include villas, apartment facilities and premises as the still in original state preserved Tailor salon Knize at Graben (1910-13) and the restored Loos Bar (1908-09) near the Kärntner Straße (passageway Kärntner Durchgang).
Between the Wars: International Modern Age and social housing
After the collapse of the monarchy in 1918, Vienna became capital of the newly formed small country of Austria. In the heart of the city, the architects Theiss & Jaksch built 1931-32 the first skyscraper in Vienna as an exclusive residential address (Herrengasse - alley 6-8). To combat the housing shortage for the general population, the social democratic city government in a globally unique building program within a few years 60,000 apartments in hundreds of apartment buildings throughout the city area had built, including the famous Karl Marx-Hof by Karl Ehn (1925-30). An alternative to the multi-storey buildings with the 1932 opened International Werkbundsiedlung was presented, which was attended by 31 architects from Austria, Germany, France, Holland and the USA and showed models for affordable housing in greenfield areas. With buildings of Adolf Loos, André Lurçat, Richard Neutra, Gerrit Rietveld, the Werkbundsiedlung, which currently is being restored at great expense, is one of the most important documents of modern architecture in Austria.
Modernism was also expressed in significant Villa buildings: The House Beer (1929-31) by Josef Frank exemplifies the refined Wiener living culture of the interwar period, while the house Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1926-28, today Bulgarian Cultural Institute), built by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein together with the architect Paul Engelmann for his sister Margarete, by its aesthetic radicalism and mathematical rigor represents a special case within contemporary architecture.
Expulsion, war and reconstruction
After the "Anschluss (Annexation)" to the German Reich in 1938, numerous Jewish builders, architects (female and male ones), who had been largely responsible for the high level of Viennese architecture, have been expelled from Austria. During the Nazi era, Vienna remained largely unaffected by structural transformations, apart from the six flak towers built for air defense of Friedrich Tamms (1942-45), made of solid reinforced concrete which today are present as memorials in the cityscape.
The years after the end of World War II were characterized by the reconstruction of the by bombs heavily damaged city. The architecture of those times was marked by aesthetic pragmatism, but also by the attempt to connect with the period before 1938 and pick up on current international trends. Among the most important buildings of the 1950s are Roland Rainer's City Hall (1952-58), the by Oswald Haerdtl erected Wien Museum at Karlsplatz (1954-59) and the 21er Haus of Karl Schwanzer (1958-62).
The youngsters come
Since the 1960s, a young generation was looking for alternatives to the moderate modernism of the reconstruction years. With visionary designs, conceptual, experimental and above all temporary architectures, interventions and installations, Raimund Abraham, Günther Domenig, Eilfried Huth, Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler and the groups Coop Himmelb(l)au, Haus-Rucker-Co and Missing Link rapidly got international attention. Although for the time being it was more designed than built, was the influence on the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the 1970s and 1980s also outside Austria great. Hollein's futuristic "Retti" candle shop at Charcoal Market/Kohlmarkt (1964-65) and Domenig's biomorphic building of the Central Savings Bank in Favoriten (10th district of Vienna - 1975-79) are among the earliest examples, later Hollein's Haas-Haus (1985-90), the loft conversion Falkestraße (1987/88) by Coop Himmelb(l)au or Domenig's T Center (2002-04) were added. Especially Domenig, Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au and the architects Ortner & Ortner (ancient members of Haus-Rucker-Co) by orders from abroad the new Austrian and Viennese architecture made a fixed international concept.
MuseumQuarter and Gasometer
Since the 1980s, the focus of building in Vienna lies on the compaction of the historic urban fabric that now as urban habitat of high quality no longer is put in question. Among the internationally best known projects is the by Ortner & Ortner planned MuseumsQuartier in the former imperial stables (competition 1987, 1998-2001), which with institutions such as the MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, the Leopold Museum, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Architecture Center Vienna and the Zoom Children's Museum on a wordwide scale is under the largest cultural complexes. After controversies in the planning phase, here an architectural compromise between old and new has been achieved at the end, whose success as an urban stage with four million visitors (2012) is overwhelming.
The dialogue between old and new, which has to stand on the agenda of building culture of a city that is so strongly influenced by history, also features the reconstruction of the Gasometer in Simmering by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wilhelm Holzbauer, Jean Nouvel and Manfred Wehdorn (1999-2001). Here was not only created new housing, but also a historical industrial monument reinterpreted into a signal in the urban development area.
New Neighborhood
In recent years, the major railway stations and their surroundings moved into the focus of planning. Here not only necessary infrastructural measures were taken, but at the same time opened up spacious inner-city residential areas and business districts. Among the prestigious projects are included the construction of the new Vienna Central Station, started in 2010 with the surrounding office towers of the Quartier Belvedere and the residential and school buildings of the Midsummer quarter (Sonnwendviertel). Europe's largest wooden tower invites here for a spectacular view to the construction site and the entire city. On the site of the former North Station are currently being built 10,000 homes and 20,000 jobs, on that of the Aspangbahn station is being built at Europe's greatest Passive House settlement "Euro Gate", the area of the North Western Railway Station is expected to be developed from 2020 for living and working. The largest currently under construction residential project but can be found in the north-eastern outskirts, where in Seaside Town Aspern till 2028 living and working space for 40,000 people will be created.
In one of the "green lungs" of Vienna, the Prater, 2013, the WU campus was opened for the largest University of Economics of Europe. Around the central square spectacular buildings of an international architect team from Great Britain, Japan, Spain and Austria are gathered that seem to lead a sometimes very loud conversation about the status quo of contemporary architecture (Hitoshi Abe, BUSarchitektur, Peter Cook, Zaha Hadid, NO MAD Arquitectos, Carme Pinós).
Flying high
International is also the number of architects who have inscribed themselves in the last few years with high-rise buildings in the skyline of Vienna and make St. Stephen's a not always unproblematic competition. Visible from afar is Massimiliano Fuksas' 138 and 127 meters high elegant Twin Tower at Wienerberg (1999-2001). The monolithic, 75-meter-high tower of the Hotel Sofitel at the Danube Canal by Jean Nouvel (2007-10), on the other hand, reacts to the particular urban situation and stages in its top floor new perspectives to the historical center on the other side.
Also at the water stands Dominique Perrault's DC Tower (2010-13) in the Danube City - those high-rise city, in which since the start of construction in 1996, the expansion of the city north of the Danube is condensed symbolically. Even in this environment, the slim and at the same time striking vertically folded tower of Perrault is beyond all known dimensions; from its Sky Bar, from spring 2014 on you are able to enjoy the highest view of Vienna. With 250 meters, the tower is the tallest building of Austria and almost twice as high as the St. Stephen's Cathedral. Vienna, thus, has acquired a new architectural landmark which cannot be overlooked - whether it also has the potential to become a landmark of the new Vienna, only time will tell. The architectural history of Vienna, where European history is presence and new buildings enter into an exciting and not always conflict-free dialogue with a great and outstanding architectural heritage, in any case has yet to offer exciting chapters.
Info: The folder "Architecture: From Art Nouveau to the Presence" is available at the Vienna Tourist Board and can be downloaded on www.wien.info/media/files/guide-architecture-in-wien.pdf.
House next to the Leeds/Liverpool Canal by Saltaire in West Yorkshire, England. Combined from 3 exposures HDR in Photomatix and Photoshop.
Nesvizh, Minsk Region, Belarus. View Of Niasviz Castle Or Nesvizh Castle Under Night Starry Sky. Residential Castle Of Radziwill Family. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The building was constructed in 1926 for an automobile dealership/service station. In 2015, the building was vacant and for sale.
Here are two simple House paper models, created by Martin Gumhold, and the scale is in 1:100.
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