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In honour of the “Südbahnhof” which gets closed today, the owners of the club “Pratersauna” organise a “Destruction Party” at the 18th of Dezember 2009. A lot of famous Dj’s like Tiefschwarz, Felix da Housecat and DJ Marflow provide the perfect sound for the last night in the central train station of Vienna.

Tickets are availiable directly at the entrance for €18. Pre-selling is coming soon.

URBAN DESTRUCTION
FESTIVAL ZU EHREN DES WIENER SÜDBAHNHOFS

Place: Wiener Südbahnhof, Wiedner Gürtel 1
Date: 18. 12. 2009
Start: 21.00h
End: 06.00h

Be there early enough! At the facebook event already 2.400 people attending this unique event!

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Update 16.12.2009:

500 pre selling tickets (€16) are available at:

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Opening hours: Tue, Wed, Thr, Fr 12.00-17.00!

The “Südbahnhof“, the central station of Vienna, is one of the biggest and most important railway stations in Austria. The building was planned by Heinrich Hrdlicka and built from 1955 to 1961. The complex combined the two existing stations (south- and east station). The actual building brings a lot of problems for travellers because the rail is not continuous. On the other hand there is no direct connection to an underground line of the city right now, which causes a lot of fussiness reaching the centre of Vienna.

On Sunday the demolition to make place for a new station begins. The new building does not only include the platforms and its waiting hall. Around the area, a complete new part of Vienna will arise. Living space for 13.000 people, this are around 5000 flats, a school campus and office towers are going to be built. The new “Südbahnhof” gets a direct connection to the underground station U1 – Südtirolerplatz  and several tram and bus lines.

The new head quarter of the Austrian Railway Federation (ÖBB) with three towers of different height (the highest 88 meters) adjoins the main station.

The ARGE Wien, consisting of the architecture studios of Theo Hotz, Ernst Hoffmann and Albert Wimmer are liable for the design and conversion of this project.

The core of the new station is a 100 meters long and 25 meters wide entrance hall. The eye catcher is the roof of the platforms, consisting out of 14 white rhombuses. Around 100 shops, restaurants and bars should settle in the 20.000 square meters of the complex. The opening of the the new main railway station is planned in 2014.

http://www.hauptbahnhof-wien.at/

The second Startup Weekend Vienna will take place at the Microsoft Innovation Center from the 6th till the 8th of November 2009. The Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from an idea to its launch.

Everybody who is interested can participate. During the 54 hours people can discuss and present their ideas for a new product. Experts give feedback about the viability of the idea and help to bring it to a next level.

Ticket are available for € 25 at www.startvienna.at
(drinks and food are included)

www.startvienna.at

The best works of the diploma projects of the faculty of architecture and urban design of the university of technology vienna are to visit right now at the kunsthalle vienna – project space karlsplatz. The vernissage is free available till the 30th of October 2009.

The archdiploma is held every second year. The book with all project is avaliable right now!

archdiploma 2009

The “Loos – House” at the Michaelerplatz in Vienna celebrates its 100th birthday. The house without the eyebrows was the first and one of the biggest architectural scandals in Vienna. Planed by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos for the gents outfitter Goldman & Salatsch it was the first house in the Austrian capital without any ornaments.

Loos said once: “Ornaments are maledictions!“

Based on this speech he planed the first and very simple facade in the first district of Vienna, directly in front of the “Hofburg”, the home of the Austrian emperor Franz Josef the first. A legend says, that the emperor never used the back entrance again in his life.

After two years of fighting with the government Loos agreed to install flower boxes and the construction could be finished. In 1947 the house was declared as a historic monument.  Over 40 years later the city realised how important the building is and renovated it.

Today jack-hammers started to break the old airfield of the Flugfeld Aspern, Vienna. 28.000 hectare of square meters have to be cleaned to start with the new district of Vienna. 2028 the new part of the Austrian capital, called “Seestadt Wien” should open its doors. With an area of 240 hectares it will be nearly as big as the centre of the city. In the biggest urban project in Austria are going to be 8500 flats for 20.000 people, 15.000 workplaces for offices an 5.000 for research and trade. The most important and name giving part of the new district is the lake in the middle. The development plan for the area is conceived for 20 years. The tube U2 and the highway A23 (Südosttangente) will connect the Seestadt to the old parts of Vienna.

The head of the “Architekturstiftung Österreich” and professor at the University of Technology Vienna for architecture Christian Kühn speaks of a conservative project that closes itself from the surroundings. In his mind it is problematic to urbanize such an area just to get new places to life. Cause of a high noise level and missing transport connections it is often difficult to rent the flats for a good price.

In the first phase a research and development park with 8.500 square meters is going to be built. An international architecture competition is already initiated.

Seestadt Wien

master plan

The management of the Museumsquartier Vienna prohibits to bring private alcoholic drinks to the whole area from now on. The official statement says that this season have been a lot of excesses of alcohol. Cause of security for other mq – visitors a private security company is now controlling all guests.

The mq is a public place and got in the year 2005 about 11mio Euro from the state!

As a protest opponents of this new ruling are meeting on the 20th of June 2009 to prost each other for fife minutes.

more news:
facebook group against this prohibition: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=96081236267
derstandard.at http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1244460188048
FM4: http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1604098/
ORF: http://wien.orf.at/stories/367297/

10th of June 2009

The management of the mq changed the new ruling today. From now on only people with a high number of private alcoholic drinks are getting banned from the area. The manager of the mq Mr. Wolfgang Waldner spoke about an overreaction of his staff which caused this uncomfortable discussion.

derstandard.at http://derstandard.at/fs/1244460341860/Neue-Hausordnung-MQ-lockert-Verbot-von-Fremdgetraenken-wieder