On the outskirts of the city where Vienna meets the river, the scale of the architecture changes drastically, the transport infrastructure makes an indelible mark on the space and distances rapidly dilate.
Landmark(ed)
On the outskirts of Wien, Dominique Perrault's tower dominates a landscape that is a public space widely used and socially inhabited as the photographs by Simone Bossi reveal.
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- 01 April 2014
- Donaustadt (Vienna)
Donaustadt, the city on the Danube, is a vast area; it was conceived as a multifunctional centre at the end of the last century and also put forward as an Expo site though without success.
It is an area that stretches out over miles where now the verticality of the architecture forms a counterpoint. At 220 high, the first of the two DC Towers has been recently completed; part of a design by Dominique Perrault, it forms an uncompromising and unmistakable landmark that captures the gaze of all in this area of the city and beyond.
However, behind the essentially tertiary character of this area is hidden a public space that is widely used and socially inhabited.
This photographic project aims to use the tower as the focal point in an analysis of a territory that reveals situations and activities that from now on will be marked by this constant presence: a clear sign that is already rooted in the shared imagination of the inhabitants.
Simone Bossi (1985) is an architect and self-taught photographer, graduating in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 2011. As well as working as an architect, he explores space with photography through commissions and his own research. His work has been published in a number of national and international architecture magazines.