Schlagwort: 1060wien

Magnificent view to the north and south from the rooftop of the Haus des Meeres in the 6th district.

A remarkable example of the combination of industrial construction with social housing of the Belle Époque is the Jubiläumswerkstättenhof with adjoining people’s apartments in the 6th district, built in 1908/1909 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Josef I.

The aim of the project designed by the architects Otto Richter and Leopold Ramsauer was to promote small commercial enterprises with affordable workshops and apartments, i.e. work and living under one roof.

This is probably how the idea of the coworking space, which is so popular with startups and EPUs today, was founded around 110 years ago. Up to 70 companies use the 150 or so workspaces, and productive networking also increases the joint prospects for success. Today, there are more than 30 coworking spaces in Vienna in 15 different districts, most of them easily accessible near a subway station.

The 1940 born Austrian Pop Art painter Prof. Christian Ludwig Attersee, who was also active as an author, musician, stage designer and formerly also as a sailor, is responsible for one of the most striking facades on the largest Viennese shopping mile, the Mariahilfer Street in the district of the same name. Completed in 1996, the glass mosaic „Wetterhändler“ on the exterior of an int. textile chain is considered the largest in Europe with its 210sqm and was made by the mosaic artist Elio Macoritto.

Already early picture cycles from the 1960s called „Weather Pictures“ and „Rainbow Anomaly“, his closeness to Viennese Actionism or his „object inventions“ with fantasy names such as „Speisekugel“ or „Attersteck“ show the diversity of the multi-awarded international artist, who is also considered a co-founder of the „New Austrian Painting“.