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Vienna Architecture & Urbanism:


Buildings, Streets, Squares

(Listed by date, general location, or subject):

medieval core (Innere Stadt)

Hofburg

  • the original medieval fortress (including the Schweizertor)
  • Burgkapelle (15th c.)
  • Renaissance additions (Stallburg, Amalienburg)
  • Schweizerhof (Baroque wing, added in 1558)
  • portions by Fischer von Erlach (including Hofbibliothek, Prunksaal, and Old Reading Room)
  • 19th c. addition (fin. 1893)
  • Neue Hofburg, southern rim

Ringstrasse

aristocratic palaces, apartments, squares (Ringstrasse)

Kohlmarkt and surroundings

Otto Wagner

Josef Hoffmann/Joseph Olbrich/Plecnik/Wittgenstein

Adolf Loos

Viennese coffeehouses (and other popular watering holes)

contemporary architects:



(Listed alphabetically, with site, date, and architect):

Altmann & Kühne (store or retailing enterprise)
Site: Graben 30
Date: 1932
Architects: Josef Hoffmann and Oswald Haerdtl [Sarnitz]

Am Steinhof: see Kirche am Steinhof

American Bar (Kärntner Bar)
Site: Kärntner Durchgang
Date: exterior 1907; interior restored 1985, 1989
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/projekte/6465.htm (interior)
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Ankerhaus
Date: 1893-1894
Site: Graben 10
Architect: Otto Wagner
Notes: a realization of one of Otto Wagner's designs; now Hundertwasser's atelier [Blue Guide, p.69]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Apartment Building
Site: Rechte Wienzeile 68, Steggasse 1
Date: 1901
Architect: Josef Plecnik [Sarnitz, p.164]

Artaria Haus
Site: Kohlmarkt 9
Architect: Max Fabiani
Date: 1901
Notes: Jugundstil [Blue Guide, p. 60]
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wien.html.en#1
http://austria-tourism.at/bl/wienfotos2.html.en#fabiani

Bank Branch Favoriten (Zentralsparkasse Wien, Filiale Favoritenstrasse)
Site: Favoritenstr.
Architect: Günther Domenig
Date: 1975-1979
Notes: Coop Himmelblau recommends [Sarnitz, p. 193]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/projekte/3538.htm

Burggarten
Date: 1818
Architect: Louis von Remy [Blue Guide, p. 90]

Burgtheater
Site: Ringstrasse
Date: 1874-1888
Architect: Gottfried Semper
URL: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw839.html

Café Central
Site: ground floor, Palais Ferstel, Herrengasse
Notes: favorite watering hole of turn of the century literati [Blue Guide, p. 53-54]

Café Griensteidl
Site: corner, Michaelerplatz
Notes: the modern café, replacing original one which was closed in 1897 [Blue Guide, p. 52]

Café Landtmann
Site: Ringstrasse, near Schottentor
Notes: Sigmund Freud's favorite hangout [Blue Guide, p. 111]
URL: http://www.aeiou.at/photo.data.text.fw25/fw17217.hts

Café Museum
Site: corner of Operngasse und Friedrichstrasse [Colomina, p.22]
Architect: Adolf Loos
Date: 1898-99
URL: http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Central Savings Bank, Mariahilf-Neubau (ext, int- renovated 1973)
Site: Mariahilfer Strasse 70
Date: 1914
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p. 175]

Church of St. Leopold (Kirche am Steinhof)
Site: Baumgartner Höhe 1
Date: 1905
Architect: Otto Wagner [Sarnitz, p.257]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start/en.htm

CM Boutique (Boutique CM)
Site: Tegetthoffstrasse 3
Architect: Hans Hollein
Date: 1966
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start/en.htm

Concordiaplatz
The square and surrounding apartment houses

Engel Apotheke
Site: Bognergasse 9
Date: 1901-02
Architect: Oskar Laske
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wien.html.en#1

Erste Österreichische Spar-Casse
Site: Graben 21
Architect: Alois Pichl
Date: 1836
Style: Neoclassical
Type: bank [Blue Guide, p.69]

Falkestrasse loft
Site: Falkestrasse 6
Architect: Coop Himmelblau [Sarnitz]
Date: 1987

Ferstel Palais
Site: Minoritenkirche Maria Schnee
Date: 1856-1869
Architect: Heinrich von Ferstel
Notes: includes Café Central on ground floor [Blue Guide, p.53]

Fledermaus Cabaret
Date: 1907
Architect: Josef Hoffmann

Frick Bookshop
Site: Graben 27-28
Architects: Michael Schluder and Hans Kastner
Date: 1988

Freud's Office
Site: Berggasse 19
Goldman and Salatsch Men's Clothing Store (exterior from plaza, details esp. of Doric columns, interior [reconst])
Site: ground floor, Michaelerplatz Building, Michaelerplatz
Date: 1910
Architect: Adolf Loos
Materials: reinforced concrete [Schezen, p. 56]
SEE ALSO MICHAELERPLATZ BUILDING (LOOS BUILDING)

Haas Haus
Site: Stock-im-Eisen-Platz 6
Date: 1990
Architect: Hans Hollein [Sarnitz)
URL: http://www.greatbuildings.com/Haas_Haus.html
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10436.html
http://aeiou.at/aeiou.photo.data.text.fw32/fw17373h.hts

Haus Bahr
Site: Winzerstr. 22
Date: 1899-1900
Architect: Josef Maria Olbrich [Borsi & Godoli, 1983]

Harrach Palais
Site: Freyung [Blue Guide, p.56]
Date: rebuilt 1690s

Heilig-Geist Kirche
Site: Herbststr. 82
Date: 1910
Architect: Josef Plecnik
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10247.html
http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos3.html.en#plecnik

Herrengasse
Notes: site of high nobility palaces [Blue Guide, p.52]
Herberstein Palace
Site: Herrengasse 1-3
Date: 1897
Notes: originally contained the Café Griensteidl (which closed in 1890s) on ground floor

Hochhotzerhof
Site: Tuchlauben 5
Date: 1719
Notes: baroque building, with convex façade, baroque ornamentation

Hofburg
Burgkapelle (15th c.)
Renaissance additions (Stallburg, Amalienburg)
Schweizerhof (Baroque wing added in 1558)
Portions by Fischer von Erlach (including Hofbibliothek, Prunksaal, Old Reading Room)
19th c. addition (finished 1893)
Neue Hofburg, southern rim
URL: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw827.html

Hoher Markt
Notes: oldest square in Vienna

Horner Haus
Site: Northartgasse 7
Date: 1912
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p. 240]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start/en.htm
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Hundertwasserhaus
Site: Löwengasse #41-43
Notes: council building, with decorations by Hundertwasser

Joannis Chapel
Site: Währinger Gürtel, Klammergasse
Date: 1895
Architect: Otto Wagner [Sarnitz, p. 185]

Kärntner Bar: see American Bar

Karlsplatz: see Stadtbahn station, Karlsplatz

Kinsky Palais
Site: Schottengasse 4
Architect: Lukas von Hildebrandt
Date: 1716 [Blue Guide, p.55]

Kirche am Steinhof
Site: Baumgartner Höhe 1
Architect: Otto Wagner
Date: 1907 [Blue Guide, p.141]
URL: http://www.aeiou.at/aeious.photo.data.text.fw23/fw17040h.hts
http://bd.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10354.html
http://aeiou.at/aeiou.film.o/o115a
http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos.html.en#wagnerst

Knize Gentlemen's Outfitters (Schneidersalon Knize)
Site: Graben 13
Architect: Adolf Loos (interiors)
Date: 1910-13 [Sarnitz, p.75]
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10535.html
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Länderbank (former)
Site: Hohenstaufengasse 3
Date: 1882
Architect: Otto Wagner
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start/en.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Landerbank.html

Lichtforum Wien
Site: Jasomirgottstrasse 3-5
Date: 1995
Architect: Hans Hollein

Linke Wienzeile apartment houses: see Wienzeile Houses

Loos Apartment (interiors, living area and bedroom; fireplace/ingenook)
Site: somewhere in Vienna
Date: renovated in 1903 [Schezen, pp. 22]

Loos Haus: see Michaelerplatz Building

Majolica House: see Wienzeile Houses

Manz Booksellers (Buchhandung Manz)
Site: Kohlmarkt 16
Architect: Adolf Loos
Date: 1912
URL: http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Medieval fortress (see Schweizerhof, Schweizertor)

Michaelerkirche
Site: Michaelerplatz
Date: late Romanesque and Gothic; rebuilt in 14th and 16th centuries
Michaelerplatz
URL: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw840.html

Michaelerplatz Building (Loos Haus)
Site: Michaelerplatz
Architect: Adolf Loos
Date: 1910
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/loos.html.en
http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10358.html
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.film.o/o355a

Minoritenplatz
Baroque palaces, e.g.:
Dietrichstein-Palais, #3 (altered by Franz Hillebrand, 1755)
Liechtensteinisches Majoratshaus, #4 (especially interiors)

Moller Haus
Site: Starkfriedgasse
Date: 1928
Architect: Adolf Loos [Schezen, p. 136]
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10364.html
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Moser-Moll Haus
Site: Steinfeldgasse 8, Geweygasse 13
Date: 1901-03
Architect: Josef Hoffmann [Sarnitz, p. 301; Borsi & Godoli, p.92]
URL: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Moser_House.html
http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Neustiftgasse 40
Architect: Otto Wagner
Notes: modern modular building

Nussdorf Weir and Locks (Nussdorfer Wehr)
Date: 1894-1896
Architect: Otto Wagner
Site: at beginning of the Danube Canal [Sarnitz, p.308]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Oesterreichische Länderbank: see Länderbank

Otto Haas-Hof Apartment Block
Site: part of Wohnhof (Winarskyhof?) complex of apartment buildings
Architect: Adolf Loos
Date: 1924
URL: http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos.INDEX.htm

Otto Wagner Villa (Privatmuseum Ernst Fuchs; ext, int, stained glass)
Site: Hüttelbergstrasse 26
Architect: Otto Wagner
Date: 1886-88 [Blue Guide, p. 11-12]

Palais Stoclet
Site: Brussels
Architect: Josef Maria Hoffmann
Date: 1903-11
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm (24 images, including model & floor plan)
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Stoclet_Palace.html (3-D model)

Postal Savings Bank (Postsparkasse)
Site: Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Date: 1903-1912
Architect: Otto Wagner [Sarnitz, p.127; Sembach, p.207)
URL: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Post_Office_Savings_Bank.html (3-D model)
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10356.html
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/js28.html
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.film.o/o358a

Porcia Palais (townhouse)
Site: Herrengasse 23
Date: 16th c. [Blue Guide, p.56]

Public Utilities
Site: Spittelauer Lände, 9th district
Notes: decorations by Hundertwasser

Residential building, Beckgasse
Architect: Josef Plecnik
Site: Beckgasse 30
Date: 1900 [Sarnitz, p.240]

Retti Candle Shop (Kerzengeschäft Retti)
Site: Kohlmarkt 8-10
Architect: Hans Hollein
Date: 1964
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start/en.htm
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10384.html

Ringstrasse

Votivkirche
Date: 1853
Style: Neo-Gothic
URL: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/ew45.html
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw842.html

University (exterior, interior arcaded courtyard; interior ptg by Franz Matsch)
Date: 1884
Architect: Heinrich Ferstel
Style: Neo-Renaissance

Palace of Justice
Date: 1881

Parliament Building
Architect: Theophil Hansen
Date: 1883
Style: Neo-Classical
URL: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw838.html
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.photo.data.text.fx32/fw17379h.hts

Rathaus (1872-83)
Style: Neo-Gothic

Burgtheater
Architect: Gottfried Semper and Carl Hasenauer
Date: 1874-1888
URL: http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.photo.data.text.fw24/fw17082h.hts

Maria-Theresien Platz
Architect: Gottfried Semper

Naturhistorisches Museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum
URL: http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.photo.data.text.fw32/fw17364h.hts

Kärntner Ring

Reichsratsstrasse

Roman dwellings (ruins)
Site (address): Hoher Markt 3
Date: circa 4th - 6th c.

Rossauer Lände: see Stadtbahn station Rossauer Lände Rotgasse
Site: off Hoher Markt
Notes: narrow street, south of Kramergasse, following line of earliest city wall which built over perimeter of old Roman camp

Rufer Haus
Site: Schliessmanngasse 11
Date: 1922
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p.233]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Adolf_Loos.html

Santorium in Purkersdorf, near Vienna
Site: Wiener Strasse 74, Purkersdorf,
Date: 1903
Architect: Josef Hoffmann
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/hoffmann.html.en
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/arch/10357.html

Scheu Haus
Site: Larochegasse 3
Date: 1912
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p.239]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Schubladlkastenhaus
Site: to right of the Schottenkirche, Schottengasse
Date: 1774
Notes: said to have inspired Loos's Goldman & Salatsch [Blue Guide, p.57]

Schullin Jewelry Store
Site: Graben 26
Date: 1982
Architect: Hans Hollein

Schützenhaus
Site: Obere Donaustr. 26
Date: 1906-07
Architect: Otto Wagner
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos.html.en#wagnerst

Schwarzenbergplatz
The square and surrounding apartment houses

Secession Building (exterior, details, interior; Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, 1902)
Site: Friedrichstrasse 12
Date: 1897
Architect: Joseph Maria Olbrich
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10352.html
http://www.archINFORM.de/projekte/1774.htm
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.film.o/o114a
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/js29.html (js29-js31)
http://www.greatbuildings.com/models/Sezession_House_mod.html (3-D model)

Spitzer Haus
Site: Auf der Hohen Warte
Date: 1900
Architect: Josef Hoffmann
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom)
Site: Stephansplatz
Date: begun 12th century

Stadtbahn Bridge over the Zeile (Brücke über das Wiental)
Date: 1895
Architect: Otto Wagner
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Stadtbahn Station, Karlsplatz (Stadtbahnhaltestelle Karlsplatz)
Date: 1898
Architect: Otto Wagner [Sembach, p.208; Sarnitz]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://austria-tourism.at/jungendstil/bl.wienfotos.html.en#wagnerst

Stadtbahn Station Rossauer Lände
Date: 1900
Architect: Otto Wagner

Stadtbahn Station, suburban line, Gersthof (Vorortelinie, Station Gersthof)
Date: 1896
Architect: Otto Wagner
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Stadtbahn Station, Unter-Döbling (Stadtbahnhaltestelle Unter-Döbling)
Date: 1895-1896
Architect: Otto Wagner
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm

Steiner House (ext, street & garden facades, interiors)
Site: St. Veit-Gasse 10
Date: 1910
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p. 241]
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Steiner_House.html
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Stoclet Palace: see Palais Stoclet

Stoessl House
Site: Matrasgasse 20
Date: 1911
Architect: Adolf Loos [Sarnitz, p.248]
URL: http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/agram/loos/INDEX.htm

Urania
Site: Uraniastr. 1
Date: 1909-10
Architect: Max Fabiani
URL: http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos2.html.en#fabiani

Villa Skywa-Primavesi (Haus Primavesi)
Site: Gloriettegasse 18
Date: 1913
Architect: Josef Hoffmann
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos2.html.en#laske

Wienzeile Houses (Mietshaus Linke Wienzeile 38, 40)
Site: Linke Wienzeile 38
Site: Linke Wienzeile 40 (Majolika Haus)
Date: 1898
Architect: Otto Wagner [Sarnitz, p.169]
Notes: three buildings which round a corner
URL: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Majolika House.html
http://www.archIINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/js32.html

Wittgenstein Haus(Stonborogh-Wittgenstein Haus; now: Bulgarian Cultural Association)
Site: Kundmanngass 19
Date: 1926
Architect: Ludwig Wittgenstein
URL: http://www.archINFORM.de/projekte/7823.htm
http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10361.html

Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Portois & Fix (Möbelhaus Portois & Fix)
Site: Ungergasse 59-61
Date: 1899
Architect: Max Fabiani
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10353.html
http://www.archIINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://www.archINFORM.de/projekte/5194.htm

Zacherl Haus
Site: Wildpretmarkt 2-4
Date: 1903-05
Architect: Josef Plecnik
URL: http://db.nextroom.at/nextroom/bw/10355.html
http://www.archINFORM.de/start.en.htm
http://austria-tourism.at/jugendstil/bl/wienfotos3.html.en#plecnik



 
 

Sources:

Blue Guide Vienna

Borsi and Godoli, Wiener Bauten der Jahrhundertwende.Die Architektur der Habsburgischen Metropole zwischen Historismus und Moderne, 1985

Colomina, Beatrix. Privacy and Publicity

Sembach, Klaus-Jürgen. Art Nouveau. Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable. 1996

Sarnitz, August. Architecture in Vienna

Schezen, Roberto. Adolf Loos. Architecture 1903-1932, 1996


compiled by: M. Clausen  27. April 1999