BEL & MAIN Vienna, three high-rise buildings
BEL & MAIN Vienna buildings, Austrian high-rise architecture photos
BEL & MAIN Vienna high-rise buildings
28 May 2021
Design: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Location: Vienna, Austria
BEL & MAIN Vienna high-rise buildings design
Photos by Paul Kranzler
An ensemble of three high-rise buildings has been completed on the basis of a competition for the development of a new district next to Vienna?s Central Station that was won by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects in 2015.
The buildings are connected by a base that defines the edges of the plot and lends the external appearance of the quarter a decidedly urban tone. This is reinforced by the fact that, rather than using individual gestures such as cantilevered balconies or small-scale mesh as a means of differentiating the façades of the three building elements that they developed, DMAA employed an organising grid and homogeneous colour scheme in order to combine the individual volumes into a major urban form.
The specific uses are revealed in the façades by the dimension, rigour and plasticity of a grid that individually structures the continuous full-height glazing. The positioning and orientation of the buildings on the plot creates optimal views in each direction. The quarter can be explored via a generous network of paths.
Starting from a square that is located opposite the 21er Haus, the internal courtyard develops as a sequence of increasingly private external spaces. The ground floor zone is hom...
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