Hotel Daniel

The listed Hotel Daniel on Gürtelstraße in the 3rd district near the Belvedere from 1962 was originally built as an office building for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La-Roche and designed by the Austrian/Swiss architect duo Georg Lippert and Roland Rohn.

In the course of the takeover by the hotel operator and the renovation of the building with the curtain-wall style used for the first time in Austria to create the striking green glass facade in 2011, a work of art by the successful Austrian artist Erwin Wurm in the form of a curved sailboat called „Misconceivable“ was also installed on the roof.

The installation of the stranded airship, originally planned for only 4 years, perhaps also references Vienna’s location by the sea until a few million years ago.