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Set against a dramatic backdrop of distant mountains and boundless sky, a tiny chapel in Austria’s southernmost state of Carinthia magnifies the intensity and natural beauty of its location.
An abandoned sandstone quarry on Rainberg Mountain, above the historic city of Salzburg, Austria, is hardly the place one would expect to find a desirable urban neighborhood.
Can an office building, using only heat generated by occupants, their equipment, and lighting—and using only operable panels for cooling—maintain year-round indoor comfort?
Site Size: 5,225 square feet Project Size: 1,104.4 square feet Program: The clients—a family with two children—asked Austrian firm Marte.Marte Architects to build a minimal alpine vacation house. Solution: The architects designed Mountain Cabin, a poured-in-place concrete four-story structure in the Laternser Valley in western Austria, which sits on a sloping ravine near a convent near the edge of a forest. Reminiscent of a medieval fortress, the house is a small monolithic tower with a square floor plan. Irregularly placed windows puncture the thick, rough walls and spaces appear to be carved from a solid block, especially at the midsection
Peak Performance: A concert hall carves its own niche in the Austrian Alps while bowing to the neighboring midcentury playhouse and the breathtaking landscape beyond.
In the picturesque Austrian village of Erl, just east of the German border, where the rugged Alps seem to descend from the heavens to meet the undulating valley below, a striking, angular structure, the Tyrolean Festspielhaus, or Festival Hall, pierces the landscape that inspired it.
Designed by Bernardo Bader Architects, the new cemetery serves the local Muslim community in industrialized western Austria, where the younger descendents of immigrants wanted a community burial place, rather than following the tradition of returning the dead to former homelands.
At the base of lake Constance, Within the picturesque Rhine Delta Nature Conservation Zone of southwestern Austria, a radiant, transparent pavilion celebrates the completion of a small but distinctive marina in the town of Fussach.
Project Specs Nordwesthaus Fussach, Austria Baumschlager Eberle << Return to article the People Architect Baumschlager Eberle Lochau ZT GmbH Lindauer Strasse 31 6911 Lochau Austria Tel.: +43 5574 43079-0 Fax: +43 5574 43079-30 Christoph von Oefele, project architect Consultant(s) Building technology: GMI Ing. Peter Messner GmbH, Dornbirn/Austria Structural engineer: Mader + Flatz, Bregenz, Austria Façade: Glas Marte GmbH, Bregenz, Austria Superstructure: Oberhauser-Schedler Bau, Andelsbuch, Austria Illumination: Ledon Lighting GmbH, Lustenau, Austria Photographer Eduard Hueber + Ines Leong / archphoto.com Eduard Hueber Arch Photo, Inc. 109 South 5th Street, Suite 401 Brooklyn NY 11211-5501 USA Tel: +1-212-941 9294 CAD system, project