Viu eyewear creates gallery-like space for its Vienna flagship store
An old bookstore has been stripped back to its concrete foundations to create a minimal space for Swiss eyewear brand Viu's first store in Austria (+ slideshow). More
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Bilding is a faceted wooden community centre built by students in an Austrian park
Architecture students from the University of Innsbruck have designed and built an angular timber and glass structure to provide a place for youngsters in the Austrian city to develop creative skills (+ slideshow). More
Ai Weiwei creates lotus-like installation from refugee life jackets
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has arranged 1,005 life jackets from refugees into the shape of lotus flowers for a floating installation in Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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Traditional farmhouse in Austria updated with contemporary extension
Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten has added a contemporary extension to a traditional farmhouse in Austria, featuring rough-sawn spruce cladding and a folded fibre-cement roof (+ slideshow). More
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March Gut creates "landscape of seating" on roof of vineyard wine tavern
Design studio March Gut has converted a wine cellar in northern Austria into a tavern, with stepped seating on the roof to allow customers to get a better view of the surrounding vineyards (+ slideshow). More
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Klaus Pichler goes behind the scenes of Vienna's Natural History Museum
Photo essay: a shark in a corridor and a toad seated on a filing cabinet are among the scenes found by Austrian photographer Klaus Pichler when he went backstage at the Natural History Museum Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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"Floating" extension to be built over roof of Vienna's Wien Museum
Austrian architects Winkler + Ruck Architekten and Ferdinand Certov have been selected to create a "floating" roof extension for Vienna's Wien Museum. More
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Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show moves to Vienna's MAK
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister's exhibition documenting his psychological and substance-related explorations into happiness has taken up residence at the MAK museum in Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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IFUB installs bespoke black steel fittings in 1930s Art Deco apartment renovation
Munich architecture studio IFUB has overhauled a 1930s apartment in Vienna, uncovering original details like parquet flooring and adding contemporary lighting and black steel fittings (+ slideshow). More
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Chmara.Rosinke designs Futurist kitchen installation
Vienna Design Week 2015: Austrian studio Chmara.Rosinke explored alternatives for dining and food preparation in its Cucina Futurista 2.0 exhibition of furniture and tableware design at Vienna Design Week (+ slideshow). More
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Kneip creates miniature motorised sculptures from found objects
Vienna Design Week 2015: a hammer that persistently strikes a stone and a "breathing" vacuum-packed sponge are among the moving sculptures that Norwegian studio Kneip has installed at a Viennese workshop (+ movie). More
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Vienna Design Week to showcase specially commissioned projects
Dezeen promotion: Vienna Design Week takes place from 25 September to 4 October 2015, and will feature works commissioned especially for the show. More
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Lakeside holiday home by Maximilian Eisenköck has gridded blackened-timber walls
This blackened-timber house by Maximilian Eisenköck provides a holiday home for three siblings and their spouses overlooking a lake near Vienna (+ slideshow). More
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Montforthaus is a curving stone and glass cultural centre in a medieval Austrian city
A strip of glazing interrupts the seamless stone-clad surfaces of this multipurpose cultural venue, which Berlin office Hascher Jehle Architecture designed for a site in the Austrian city of Feldkirch (+ slideshow). More
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Tube net installation by Numen/For Use designed as a "giant convulsing centipede"
Visitors to an Innsbruck gallery can crawl from room to room via a series of bouncy net tunnels installed by design collective Numen/For Use. More
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Neon Golden replicates swarm of fireflies with light installation
Austrian arts collective Neon Golden has created an immersive light installation that mimics the movements of fireflies (+ slideshow). More
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White concrete chapel by Gerhard Sacher features glazed walls that allow views right through
This small family chapel in rural Austria has a white concrete shell and glass gable walls, allowing views right through the building to the rolling countryside beyond (+ slideshow). More
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Crowdsourcing campaign launched to repurpose Austrian bridge
Berlin crowdsourcing platform Jovoto has launched an open design competition to repurpose a defunct railway bridge spanning the Danube river in Linz. More
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Triendl und Fessler Architekten plans low-cost family home around a secret courtyard
Triendl und Fessler Architekten has completed an affordable home in an Austrian village, featuring a hole in its centre that provides residents with a secluded garden courtyard (+ slideshow). More
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Ludescher and Lutz add a tasting hall to a winery in Austria's Wachau region
Thin wooden batons screen the glass facades of this new building that architects Elmar Ludescher and Philip Lutz have added to the 50-year-old Högl winery in Lower Austria (+ slideshow). More
