Studio Job installs giant crystal-encrusted model at Swarovski theme park
Belgian artists Studio Job have created a room "filled with frivolous expression" for the newly expanded Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ movie). More
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Zimoun installs motorised wooden seesaws inside Austrian church
The sounds of 150 mechanical seesaws striking the floor of a former church in Austria reverberate around its nave in this installation by Swiss artist Zimoun (+ movie). More
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Snøhetta designs new buildings for reopening of Swarovski's crystal theme park
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a series of new structures including a glass play tower with a faceted facade, as part of an expansion to the Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ slideshow). More
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Austria's Milan Expo pavilion contains a forest filled with clouds of mist
Milan Expo 2015: behind the wooden walls of Austria's national pavilion, a team led by architect Klaus K Loenhart has planted enough trees to provide a source of oxygen for up to 1,800 people (+ slideshow). More
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Juri Troy Architects creates 37-metre-long house and studio in the Rhine Valley
This black building stretches 37 metres along a narrow plot in the heart of Austria's Rhine Valley to provide a home for a young family and a studio for a graphic designer (+ slideshow). More
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Love Architecture completes house of two halves overlooking an Austrian valley
Two glass-fronted concrete shells project from the side of a steeply sloping valley to form this house by Austrian studio Love Architecture (+ slideshow). More
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Bernd Riegger's see-through timber cabin provides shelter for a forest kindergarten
Openings in the walls of this wooden shelter in Austria create display compartments where children can show off treasures collected from the trails of the surrounding forest (+ slideshow). More
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Haus Für Julia Und Björn is a wooden residence in Austria's picturesque Bregenz Forest
Innauer‐Matt Architekten sourced spruce from a nearby woodland for the inside and outside walls of this family house in a hamlet of western Austria (+ slideshow). More
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Tick-shaped art studio by Christian Tonko follows the slope of an Austrian hillside
This weathered steel-clad artist's studio by architect Christian Tonkin has an angled body that follows the slope of the hill, but one end projects out to frame views out over the rooftops of nearby Bregenz (+ slideshow). More
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Concrete tower by Bechter Zaffignani houses a control centre for an Austrian power station
A block appears to have been pushed out from the middle of this concrete tower by Bechter Zaffignani Architekten, which accommodates a control centre for a power station in western Austria (+ slideshow). More
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MVRDV plans skyscraper with a "curving waist" for Vienna
News: Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won a contest to design a new addition to the Vienna skyline by proposing a 110-metre tower with an "elegant, hourglass figure" that will reduce the impact of its shadow (+ slideshow). More
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Cladding panel falls off Zaha Hadid's Vienna library
News: parts of Zaha Hadid Architects' Library and Learning Centre in Vienna have been cordoned off after a piece of concrete cladding fell off. More
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PPAG Architects adds mirrored extension to restaurant in Vienna's Stadtpark
These four "finger-like" extensions to a Vienna restaurant, by PPAG Architects, feature mirrored walls that reflect the surrounding parkland, and windows that slide up above the roof (+ slideshow). More
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Jochen Specht envelops a 1960s house in a new timber and concrete facade
Architect Jochen Specht has doubled the size of a 1960s house in rural Austria by encasing its stone walls behind a new facade made up of dark timber, concrete and plenty of windows (+ slideshow). More
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Bernardo Bader sources wood from a local forest to build barn-like house in rural Austria
Timber window shutters align with the vertical strips of pale timber that clad this gabled house in the Austrian countryside, by local architects Bernardo Bader Architekten (+ slideshow). More
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Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). More
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Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More
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Strips of local spruce clad Haus Feurstein by Innauer‐Matt Architekten
Vertical strips of spruce give a stripy facade to this semi-detached house, completed by Innauer‐Matt Architekten in a hamlet within the forested landscape of Vorarlberg, Austria (+ slideshow). More
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Hadid, Holl and Gehry join fight to save "masterpiece" school by Helmut Richter
News: Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi have pledged support to a campaign to prevent the "barbaric" part-demolition of a school by Austrian Modernist architect Helmut Richter. More
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Numen/For Use combines "height and wobbliness" in net staircase for Linz gallery
Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net by design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More