Gold is shining, symbolizing glory and honor; gold is also neutral, neither dry nor cold, suitable for all phenomena. The city melody of Vienna is most appropriately crowned with gold. Not only is the city rich in history and lavish palaces, it is also rich in music and avant-garde modernist exploration. Vienna, as a city with a long history, has not been covered over time, but is gradually lined up along the ring road, forming the golden landscape of the city with rich layers, interpreting the golden melody of Vienna.
Old Town Waltz
Vienna is a famous cultural city, with many Baroque, Gothic, Romanesque and Greek-style buildings and sculptures distributed in the city. There are not only the medieval St. Stefan's Cathedral with its spire towering into the clouds, the Schönbrunn Palace, which was once the palace of four imperial dynasties, and the Belvedere Palace with a strong Baroque style, but also the Vienna State Opera House, known as the "World Opera Center". And the Austrian National Library, one of the "most beautiful libraries in the world". These gleaming classic buildings have accumulated into Vienna's profound urban heritage.
Karlsplatz Stadtbahn
Overture to Modernism
Austria is the link connecting Eastern and Western Europe, and Vienna, the capital, is the frontline of Western social thought. The Vienna Secession is a typical example, although it lasted for a short time, it has contributed greatly to the process of promoting modern design. The Viennese Secession's quest for architecture that diverged from traditional styles became the prelude to the modernist movement in the world.
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), one of the main founders of the Vienna Secession, whose outstanding representative works "Judith I" and "The Kiss" were exhibited at Belvedere A gem of modern art. Klimt's student, Egon Schiele (1890-1918), was a more talented painter than his teacher. In his short 28-year life course, Schiller got rid of the shackles of the academy, explored the form of life and the expression of "human nature", became an early representative of expressionist painting, and a pioneer in breaking through traditional art. Both Klimt and Schiller were shining notes in Vienna's overture to push modern art.
The architect Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) was the main leader of the Vienna Secession. He designed The Secession Building in Vienna with pure geometric forms and restrained decorative language, which is the architectural manifesto of the Vienna Secession.
The other two founders of the Secession were the architect Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) and the artist and designer Koloman Moser (1868-1918), who were also the famous Vienna studio ( Wiener Werkstätte, 19031932) founder. Vienna Studio is the position where the Separatists engage in social creation and solve practical problems. It brings together architects, artists, designers and many craftsmen and artists engaged in ceramics, furniture, accessories and so on. Nearly 100 employees, half of them are masters in their respective industries. Representative works cover various fields. With its avant-garde, artistic and timeless designs, the Vienna studio has influenced generations of architecture and design styles including Bauhaus, American Art Deco, Scandinavian design and more.
Otto Wagner (1841-1918), known as "the designer and builder of the modern Vienna city", whose design career is a microcosm of the evolution of Vienna's classical design to modern design. Wagner was involved in the planning and design of Vienna's public transport system, including the famous Karlsplatz Stadtbahn, a practical steel frame structure with carefully designed gilt patterns, showing an extraordinary combination of architectural function and elegant decoration.
The Secession
Building
Majolica House is Wagner's early Secession masterpiece. It and the other two apartment buildings next to it are collectively called The Linke Wienzeile Buildings, which is a characteristic landmark of Vienna. The simple façade structure of the building reveals the essence of function first, while the colorful flower patterns on the wall reflect the ambiguous Art Nouveau imprint.
Austria Postal
Savings Bank
The Austria Postal Savings Bank, as a classic representative of Vienna's early modern architecture, is considered to be Wagner's most famous and influential building. Wagner combined and applied new materials by exploring different forms and means. On the basis of satisfying functions, he unexpectedly gained the beauty of geometric decoration based on the expression of materials. This building became a symbol of Wagner's departure from Neoclassical and Art Nouveau and towards modernity.
Looshaus
Cityscape Symphony
Constructing uniquely shaped contemporary buildings in historic cities is bound to spark controversy, and Vienna is no exception. But the controversy hasn't dampened Vienna's enthusiasm for a contemporary new architectural landmark. Inaugurated in 1990, the Haas House, designed by Hans Hollein, has columnar buildings of various sizes covered by a glass façade that mirrors the spire of Stephen's Cathedral across the street. Brightness and simplicity, simplicity and tediousness, entertainment and belief, opposition and fusion, modern fashion and ancient civilization meet and intertwine on the streets of Vienna, swirling and swaying in the city like a symphony. Also interacting with the original urban landscape is the Spittelau Viaducts Housing, which is co-located with the Wagner-designed bridge. This is the early work of architect Zaha Hadid. The irregular geometric building is curved inside and straight outside. The whole body is white and has a strong sense of modernity.
Liesing Brewery
Blue Sky Group (Coop Himmelb(l)au) is an architecture, urban planning and art design firm founded in Vienna in 1968. The Blue Sky Group is a pioneer of deconstruction in modern architecture, with avant-garde designs all over the world. The creations of the blue sky group in Vienna range from the deconstructed roof of Falkesstrasse to the urban complex of Liesing Brewery on the banks of the Lising River. The latter is built into a serpentine structure along the ridge topography of the river bank, and the linear terraced buildings on the south side extend to the river. A variable, fluid sequence of public plazas and spaces is reserved between the two rows of buildings, intertwined with the newly designed Liisinger Square through the shopping mall. The east-west extending urban texture is broken by wide corridors, allowing the green space in the north and the urban space in the south to flow freely. Linking the existing residences south of the Lising River, the public spaces of the complex and the natural landscape to the north, play an ebullient urban landscape melody.
Community Capriccio
Vienna has been rated as the most livable city in the world for many times, not only because of the city's strong cultural heritage and scientific modern urban construction, but also because of its romantic feelings in housing and community design, it has also become an irresistible temptation.
Falkestrasse
The world-renowned star building Hundertwasserhaus was designed by Austrian architect Mr. Hundertwasser (1928-2000) and is located on a secluded side street in Vienna's East Side. The apartment was originally built for low-income people, but the return to basics design makes the building a work of art and has vitality. The whole apartment is colorful, space-changing, and graceful in shape. The vegetation spreads and becomes a natural space landscaping. In this fairy tale world, tens of thousands of people line up to apply for the rental right of Hundertwasserhaus every year.
The Vienna Gasometer City was built on the former site of four cylindrical gas storage tanks with a capacity of 90,000 cubic meters. On the basis of respecting the historical appearance of the gas tank and protecting the appearance of the original building, the four tanks were designed and completed by a team of four architects. French designer Jean Nouvel completes the A-tank design. The 18 bow-shaped residential towers are spaced into the inner walls of the gas tanks, forming a ring, with sunlight illuminating the entire interior space through the glass dome and the glass windows between the towers. Tank B was designed by Coop Himmelb(I)au, which contains 12-storey residences and a multi-purpose theater, while on the other side of Tank B, Blue Sky Group built an 18-story shield along the surface. shaped apartment. Austrian architect Manfred Wehdorn designed the C-Tank in the style of a traditional Vienna house. The four unit buildings are connected by corridors, the rooms are indented layer by layer, and the spacious terraces and indoor gardens reveal a strong Viennese life style. Tank D, designed by Wilhelm Holzbauer, is vertically tiered to create urban and rural archives and residences. The renovated Gas Tank City has unique spatial charm and architectural life. The unprecedented living experience makes it very popular, and this is Vienna's random thoughts on life and its interpretation of romance and quality.
"Art for the times, for the freedom of art" is the art declaration of the Vienna Secession. In today's Vienna, freedom is no longer a luxury, and a better life has become the creed of urban construction.
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