We got the gebaut2020 award of the City of Vienna for our OPEN UP! building in Sonnwendviertel, a new neighborhood south of Vienna Main Station that includes a 7ha park area! Many thanks to the officials of the Architecture and Urban Design Department of the City for personally bringing the trophy to our office, and […]
Our latest School building, the Längenfeldgasse Primary and Vocational School in Vienna has been selected as a Finalist in the Architizer A+Awards! This project is now one of only five remaining, competing for the Popular Choice Award in the PLUS > CONCEPTS > Architecture +Learning category. Voting is now open, until June 25 at Midnight […]
The requirements for educational buildings have changed fundamentally in the last few decades. How can architecture best support learning and teaching? This year, the Architekturtage (“Architecture Days” taking place all around Austria) focus on the subject “Architecture and Education: Living, Learning, Space”.The opening on June 11th starts with the live stream of „Architekturtage TV” from […]
This weekend, for the first time since months, we will be able to enjoy fine food and drink in nice company, as Austrian restaurants are reopening!At the Steirereck am Pogusch (in Styria, Austria) you may also take delight in contemporary architecture paired with haute cuisine, thanks to the new project of the Reitbauer family. We […]
In its May issue, the AIT magazine for architecture takes us to Vienna for a weekend in order to discover its modern and contemporary architecture. PPAG architects are proud to read that our architecture for the Steirereck restaurant is an “iconic pavilion” and a must-see with its “iridescent façade”!Illustration: Irmela Schautz Check out the whole […]
In Vienna, only 8 percent of street names celebrate women and their contributions. However, in a new urban development area for 20.000 inhabitants, the Seestadt Aspern, all newly built streets and plazas put women in the spotlight, some of them architects, urbanists and designers – such as the Zaha Hadid Square, the Lina Bo Bardi […]
Growing up with architecture: The book “Dječji vrtići i škole u 21. stoljeću”, edited by Borka Bobovec, Davor Mateković and Goran Rako, with a foreword by Maroje Mrduljaš, presents stimulating environments for conducting education, all built after 2000. PPAG architects’ Bildungscampus Sonnwendviertel is featured too: It is presented as belonging to the typology of city/village…and […]
On March 5, 2021 Anna Popelka gave the keynote lecture of the architecture festival TURN ON: “We know a lot about what would be good for everyone.Where we want to develop.It just doesn’t flow into our everyday reality yet.We do not implement the conceivable possible.We do not implement what we can already imagine.The built environment […]
The need for room configurations able to take our diversified life models into account isn’t anything new. But the corona crisis intensifies it and makes it even more evident. The current edition of the Swiss construction newspaper TEC21 shows examples of projected and implemented buildings that make working from home more viable and interesting – […]
Last year the secondary school was “Building Of the Week” on the online platform austria architects. It presented 48 Buildings of the Week in 2020, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings.Now it’s your turn to crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. If you like the schools we […]
