WHAT Architect WHERE Notes Zone 1: Innere Stadt Built in 1906 as the headquarters of the Österreichische Postsparkasse (P.S.K.) bank, formerly the k.k. Postsparcassen-Amt (Imperial-Royal Postal Savings Office). The building is regarded as an important early work of modern architecture, representing Wagner's Austrian Postal Haupteingang Georg first move away from Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism. Through the *** Otto Wagner Savings Bank Coch-Platz 2 main entrance at Georg-Coch-Platz the visitor ascends a flight of stairs to the grand Kassenhalle, where customer services are located. The main hall is thus on the first floor. The hall is designed like an atrium, with a large glass skylight allowing natural light to enter the heart of the building at all times. Mon-Fri (8-15), Thu (8-17.30) The MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art is one of the most important museums of its kind worldwide. Founded as the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in 1863, today’s museum—with its unique collection of applied arts and as a first-class *** MAK Museum Stubenring 5 address for contemporary art—can boast an incomparable identity. Fun fact: it was the first museum to acquire art work using the cryptocurrency bitcoin. General admission €9.90, €7.50 students, Free admission Tue 18-22. Wed-Sun (10-18), Tue (10-22) Built in 1989 as a roof addition to an existing building. It consists of a Office Extension in Biberstrasse + radical crash of framework draping over edge of older building. 400 * Coop Himmelb(l)au Vienna Falkestrasse square meters of roof space were to be converted into an office, the main element being a central conference-room. Originally built in 1237 as as the Church of St. Maria Rotunda, an early Baroque parish church and minor basilica. This church was heavily Jacopo Spacio, damaged during the first siege of Vienna by the Turkish army in 1529. Cipriano Biasino, ** Postgasse 4A The choir was demolished and the nave was partly taken down. The Dominikanerkirche Carpoforo Tencala, building became more and more dilapidated during the next period. In 1631 Antonio Canevale the Dominicans started to build a new oblong church with a dome, following the plan of Jacopo Tencala. Mon-Sun (7-19) Built in 1627 as a Jesuit Church. In 1703, Brother Andrea Pozzo, S.J., an architect, painter, and sculptor, and a master in the quadratura, was requested by Emperor Leopold I to redecorate the church. He added twin towers and reworked the façade in an early Baroque style with narrow Doktor-Ignaz- **** Jesuitenkirche Andrea Pozzo horizontal and vertical sections. The design of the windows, narrow Seipel-Platz 1 niches (with statues), and the small central part of the façade deviate from the Baroque style of the towers. Pozzo died unexpectedly in 1709, just before he was to move to Venice, and was buried in the church. Mon-Sun (7-18) The Mozarthaus Vienna was Mozart's residence from 1784 to 1787. This building in Vienna's Old Town is his only surviving Viennese residence and is now a museum. Today the Mozarthaus presents information about ** Mozarthaus Vienna Domgasse 5 the composer in combination with historical exhibits and audio-visual installations, while the basement contains an events hall co-financed by the EU. General admission €11, €9 students. Mon-Sun (10-19) Built in 1511 as the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches. Its massive south tower is its highest St. Stephen's point and a dominant feature of the Vienna skyline. Inside the cathedral ***** Stephansplatz 3 Cathedral are the tombs of Prince Eugene of Savoy, commander of the Imperial forces during the War of the Spanish Succession in the Chapel of The Cross (northwest corner of the cathedral) and of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor. Mon-Sat (6-22) Built in 1990 as a retail and a restaurant building. The building is considered controversial owing to its contrast with the adjacent Stock-im-Eisen- ** Haas House Hans Hollein Stephansdom cathedral. At the top you can enjoy a spectacular view of Platz St. Stephen's Cathedral at a beautiful coffee shop and restaurant. Restaurant Mon-Sun (12-15/18-00) Built in 1693 as a Holy Trinity column after the Great Plague epidemic of 1679. In 1683, Matthias Rauchmiller was commissioned to do the marble works, but he died in 1686 and only left a few angel figures. Several * Bestsäule Statue Matthias Rauchmüller Graben new designs followed, among others by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who designed the sculptures at the base of the column. Finally, the project management was assigned to Paul Strudel, who based his work on the concept of theatre engineer Lodovico Burnacini. Built in 1733 as a Baroque Roman Catholic parish church. The oldest church building (of which nothing remains today) dates back to the Early Middle Ages, and there is speculation that it could be the oldest church Johann Lukas von ***** Peterskirche Petersplatz 6 in Vienna. The design was inspired by the St. Peter's Basilica of the Hildebrandt Vatican in Rome. Due to the confinement of available space, it was built in a very compact form, with its oval interior housing an astonishing amount of space and rectangular attachments. Mon-Sun (9-18.30) Kärntner Straße is the most famous shopping street in central Vienna. It runs from the Stephansplatz out to the Wiener Staatsoper at **** Kärntner Straße Kärntner Straße Karlsplatz on the Ringstraße. The first record of Kärntner Straße is from 1257, as Strata Carintianorum, which refers to its importance as a trade route to the southern province of Carinthia. The Imperial Crypt also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) is a Johann Aman and burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery, founded in ** Capuchin Church Tegetthoffstraße 2 Johann Höhne 1618. Since 1633, the Imperial Crypt has been the principal place of entombment for members of the House of Habsburg. Mon-Sun (10-18) The original objective of the two was to build a theatre for a non-noble audience that was not affected by social and political censorship and that worked in direct competition to the Imperial Burgtheater and other stages of the "official" Austria. The Wiener Stadttheater was opened in 1872. Twelve years later, in 1884, the building burnt down completely. *** Ronacher Theatre Seilerstätte 9 The ruins were purchased by a gentleman called Anton Ronacher in 1886. Therefore, the Ronacher - after being re-built in historicist style in 1888 - was re-opened as a concert- and ball venue. It was associated with a hotel and got not only electric light, but also a ball room, a conservatory and "promandes" where visitors could amble. Check performances https://www.musicalvienna.at/de/die-theater/ronacher The first church on this site is mentioned in 1217, as a "House of the Prueder of the Order of Saint John", a commandry to care and support ** Maltese Church Kärntner Str. 37 crusaders. The current building was built in 1806 as a Roman Catholic Gothic church. Mon-Sun (7-18) Built in 1320 as a church. A relic of Saint Anne—her right hand—is kept ** St. Anna's Church Christoph Tausch Annagasse 3B in a rich Baroque setting and exhibited every year on July 26. St. Anne's Church is famous for its frescos of Daniel Gran. Mon-Sun (7-19) The Haus der Musik is located in the Palace of Archduke Charles, where Otto Nicolai, founder of the Vienna Philharmonic, lived around 150 years * Haus der Musik Seilerstätte 30 ago. It opened again in 2000, and is the first museum of sound and music in Austria. General admission €13, €9 students. Mon-Sun (10-22) The first LOVE F CAFÉ is placed at the formerly most exclusive and prominent corner in Vienna - the "SIRK-corner". The Café, owned by TV channel Fashion-TV, is set in the middle of the broad entry into the Soehne & Partner * traditional Viennese city center, succeeding in striking a bridge between Fashion TV Café Architekten modernity and tradition. LOVE F CAFÉ is not only a coffee shop, it is also a place of bundled media presence and the extravagant embodiment of Fashion TV. Built in 2011 as a restaurant. The main challenge at Albertina Passage was to recreate an abandoned pedestrian underpass at the very center Soehne & Partner of Vienna into a modern dinner club for up to 300 people. The target * Albertina Passage Architekten Operring 1 was to design a club that is suitable for an elegant dinner as well as for a big party night. Hence, the design includes live music, a restaurant and a lounge. Tue-Sat (18-4) Built in 1869 as an opera house. The Ministry of the Interior had commissioned a number of reports into the availability of certain building materials, with the result that stones long not seen in Vienna were used, such as Wöllersdorfer Stein. The building was, however, not very popular with the public. On the one hand, it did not seem as grand as August Sicard von the Heinrichshof, a private residence which was destroyed in World War ***** State Opera House Sicardsburg and Opernring 2 II (and replaced in 1955 by the Opernringhof). Eduard van der Nüll Eduard van der Nüll committed suicide, and barely ten weeks later Sicardsburg died from tuberculosis so neither architect saw the completion of the building. Check performances http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/Startseite- Content.en.php The Albertina was erected on one of the last remaining sections of the fortifications of Vienna, the Augustinian Bastion.