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Quite monumental! Impressive witnesses of history

What would St. Stephen’s Square be without its 700-year-old cathedral, Vienna’s theatre scene without the famous Burgtheater, or Michaelerplatz without the Imperial Palace? more...

“Project Vienna“ presents urban utopias for a more social future

Austrian flags as hammocks, electronic whining corners and energy generation from corpses – this is the future of Vienna, at least according to more...

Moscow fights against worst heat wave in a century

You need to be a real survivor if you live in Moscow now. Devastating peat bog and forest fires are blanketing the city with acrid smoke. On top of this, there is a record heat wave with temperatures of almost 40 degrees more...

Architecture from Tirana at Ringturm in Vienna

Continuing its discovery trip through Central and Eastern Europe, Vienna Insurance Group presents Albania in its exhibition series “Architecture at Ringturm“. Hardly a more interesting capital than that of Albania more...

How architecture defines Europe’s cities

Every two years, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona hands out, in collaboration with the European Commission, the Mies van der Rohe Award, one of the most prestigious European architecture prizes more...

Vienna knows how

The current exhibition at Wiener Planungswerkstatt (Vienna Planning Workshop) “The Know-how of Vienna: Urban Technologies and Strategies“ gives visitors in-depth insights into the city as a living organism more...

Roman Vienna - In the footsteps of the Romans

Even if all roads didn’t lead to Vindobona, the Roman name for Vienna, it was still an important Roman settlement, more precisely a military camp and civilian town more...

The architect Friedrich Ohmann – a Central European leaves his mark in Vienna

Friedrich Ohmann was born in 1858 in Lemberg (Lviv) and studied under Heinrich von Ferstel and Friedrich von Schmidt, two major proponents of Historicism in Vienna. Ohmann himself had an important impact more...

A visit to the city’s memory

Dating back to the Middle Ages, the Vienna Municipal and Provincial Archives offer a wealth of fascinating information. Director Ferdinand Opll told wieninternational.at why every document in these archives is a highlight in itself … more...

In search of Austrian architecture in Belgrade

It might be thought that the Serbian capital has been destroyed more often than it has been rebuilt, in both the historical and the architectural sense more...