OMA won the competition organized by Signa for KaDeWe department store and hotel in Vienna. Located in the Austrian city’s Museumquartier, the project has been designed by Laurence Bolhaar, Ellen van Loon and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli and it’s going to be the first by the studio in the city. The building is made by two volumes, with the store on the front and the hotel on the back, separated by a green pedestrian path from which people have access to public terraces upstairs, featured by trees and sun decks. Inspired by the Vienna Secession style, the facade is directly connected to the street and to the historical center. In the architects’ words: “The value of department stores should be measured by their ability to engage the local context”.
The Vienna Secession in the new building designed by OMA
OMA wins the competition for the new KaDeWe department store and hotel in Vienna, a project that includes public spaces and green terraces in the historical center.
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- Francesca Grillo
- 02 October 2019
- Vienna
- OMA / Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Ellen van Loon and Laurence Bolhaar
- Retail, hotel, rooftop gardens, public spaces
- KaDeWe Vienna – The Link
- Vienna
- Retail, hotel, rooftop gardens, public spaces
- OMA / Laurence Bolhaar
- Ellen van Loon and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli
- Anita Ernodi, Alexei Haddad, Mattia Inselvini, Natalie Konopelski, Antonia Rubic, Massimo Tenan, Michele Zambetti
- Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten
- IPJ Ingenieursbüro P. Jung
- Vasko + Partner
- Signa Development
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