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Restructuring of the Maria-Theresien-Straße

Maria-Theresien-Straße, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: AllesWirdGut (2008-2009) Builder-owner: Stadt Innsbruck

With the objective of doing Innsbruck’s important boulevard justice in terms of design, a project, won by AllesWirdGut, was put up for tender in 2006. With a carpet-like design for the road surface made up of four different types of granite, furnishing made of brass and a differentiated lighting concept, the architects created a location full of atmosphere, which at the same time is a street and a square.

© AllesWirdGut
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Innsbruck University and Federal State Library

Innrain 50 und 52 d-f, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Eck & Reiter, Dietmar Rossmann (2007-2009) Builder-owner: BIG Open to the public: Monday to Sunday during the library’s hours of opening "On Stones" – Artwork by Georgia Creimer in the atriums.

In place of the original town planned, unsatisfying and unused rest room running along the street, the new library building creates a flowing crossover from urban space to the university campus. The library is situated beneath the existing buildings and connected to the reorganised main library. The library’s roof provides much-used open space and serves as a new university town-side entrance.

© Lukas Schaller
03

DSZ (Service Centre) Sparkassenplatz 2

Sparkassenplatz 2, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker (2008-2009) Builder-owner: SLVG Open to the public: partially (Shops and caterers on the ground floor) Rainer Köberl designed two of the shops –the Dinkhauser Wrappings and Parcel Boutique and the Mölk Jewellers Shop.

The redevelopment and extra storey added to the office and business premises on the south side of the Sparkassenplatz form the completion of several years of redevelopment work carried out on the Tyrolean bank building enclosing this central Innsbrucker Square. With the objective of the reconstruction work and addition of a storey being the uniting as a homogeneous but not uniform new building, both on the inside and outside, various "room-identities” were placed on top of each other.

© Markus Bstieler
04

Bürgergarten – Health and Social Centre

Ing. Etzelstraße 5-17, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: obermoser arch-omo (2006-2009) Builder-owner: BOE Baumanagement GmbH Open to the public: partially

The development of the former "Bürgerlichen Brauhaus” area consists of a bipartite outer edge construction on the Ing.-Etzel-Straße, an "education tower” to the west of this for the BFI (institute for further advanced vocational training) and behind each other, two "town blocks” with service zones for the insurance companies on the ground floor. In addition to this there are office spaces and flats on the upper floors. Despite the size of the project, various materials, differing facades and the design of the open space, all played a part in the creation of the heterogeneous urban accommodation.

© Henning Koepke
05

Refugio Laudegg

Schloßweg 1, 6532 Ladis, A
Architecture: VENTIRAARCHITEKTEN (2009) Builder-owner: Florian Klotz, Thomas Klotz

Seen as a pleasing contemporary contrast and built at the foot of Laudegg Castle (1200s) in Ladis is the "Refugio Laudegg” apartment house. The four buildings, slightly staggered in position and height, remind, with their small components and materials, of the traditional stable construction method. The new facility, the castle, restaurant, lake and impressing mountain world, together, all form a homogeneous ensemble.

© Wolfgang Juen
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Einsatzzentrum Schwaz (Operational Centre)

Münchner Straße 21, 6130 Schwaz, A
Architecture: gharakhanzadeh sandbichler architekten (2007-2009) Builder-owner: Immobilien Schwaz GmbH & Co KEG TIP: There is a Fire Brigade Museum in the operational centre, with exhibits to be found in both niches and open space.

The Fire Brigade and the Schwaz Mountain Rescue Operations Centre is situated directly next to the Inn and the motorway approach road. The building is mainly at the rear of the grounds thus leaving a large amount of space at the front for the emergency vehicles. The dominant part of the building tiered down towards the river and promenade, is the 18 metre high glass hose-tower, which makes the building’s function visible from quite a distance.

© Rupert Steiner
07

Angerberg Primary School

Linden 7, 6320 Angerberg, A
Architecture: Kurt Rumplmayr (2008-2009) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Angerberg Accessibility: Motorway exit "Wörgl Ost", then take the L213 towards Angath TIP: At approx. 4 km distance – the "Mariastein" pilgrimage church (around 1360) is well worth a visit.

The school building realised by Kurt Rumplmayr is a reduced cube design, which is transparent from all sides. The building, which completes the new village square, also resembles one inside. The public functions are arranged on the ground floor around a lowered gymnastic and events hall, the classrooms on the upper floor are accessible by means of a central light flooded hall.

© B&R
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Am Lohbach Residence and Nursing Home for Seniors

Technikerstraße 84, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Marte.Marte Architekten (2007-2009) Builder-owner: stadtBAU Accessibility: at the west end of the Franz-Baumann-Weg, Bus Route O

The last building to be built for the "Am Lohbach” residential development project was the residential and nursing home for seniors designed by Bernhard and Stefan Marte as an atrium house. An open light-flooded building with nursing rooms on the upper storeys organised as residential groups. To the east of the home is a district square with a café for the residents; the café is also open to the general public.

© Bruno Klomfar
09

Hotel Arlmont

Am alten Hof 1, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: Tatanka (2007-2009) Builder-owner: Markus Stemberger TIP: Wellness and Fitness Area "cloud 9"

Hotels in the style of oversized farmhouses are still being built in Tyrol. The "Arlmont” – constructed by the Tatanka Ideenvertriebs GmbH – shows that the younger tourist generation are now starting to change their views. Instead of a carved wooden balcony, a balustrade made of a reddish coloured exposed concrete surrounds the building with its organic sweeping outline. Room high windows offer guests an ambience bathed in light.

© Paul Ott
10

Rendlbahn Valley Station and Footbridge

Ingenieur-Julius-Lott-Weg, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: driendl*architects (2009) Builder-owner: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG Open to the public: during hours of operation The mountain station was converted by the LEGOS architects, this included an extension building as a restaurant.

Just 150 metres from the Galzigbahn– also planned by the Driendl* architects – the new Rendlbahn connects the town centre with the other side of the valley for the first time. The lower level of the dynamic steel, glass and concrete building is used as a bus terminal, with guests being able to directly access the gondola’s boarding area via an escalator. A long sweeping footbridge connects the end of the ski slope with the valley station, which has been integrated into the surrounding area.

© Milli Kaufmann
11

Ammerwald Alp Hotel

Ammerwald 1, 6600 Reutte, A
Architecture: Oskar Leo Kaufmann | Albert Rüf (2008-2009) Builder-owner: BMW AG Accessibility: From Reutte towards Plansee and further on towards Linderhof (along the L255).

Since the 1940s, the BMW-Group has been running a holiday hotel between Schloss Linderhof and Plansee. As in accordance with company philosophy, BMW intentionally built a contemporary new building. The building designed by the Vorarlberg architects Kaufmann Rüf consists of a ground floor made of in-situ concrete, onto which a completely equipped upper floor as a solid-wood-module with room-high windows was erected within a very short period of time.

© Kaufmann Rüf
12

House of the Generations

Falkensteinstraße 28, 6130 Schwaz, A
Architecture: Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe, Günther Dregelyvari (2007-2009) Builder-owner: Frieden Tirol Open to the public: partially TIP: Many regional products are available at the village store operated by Lebenshilfe Tirol.

In the place of a former inn, Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe and Günther Dregelyvari designed a clear and self-evidently acting new building in which the various sections of the population – with and without impairments – and different social and communicative facilities were brought together. What emerged was a lively place for people of all age groups, with an afterschool care center for school children and a senior citizens’ room, an inn and a local grocer’s shop, as well as apartments for young families, for assisted living and a living community for handicapped people run by the Lebenshilfe. At the same time it became the center of Schwaz’s "Dorf” district, one that had been missing until then.

© Rens Veltman
13

Residential Development Lodenareal

General-Eccher-Straße 15-33, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: DIN A4 Architektur (2007-2009) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol Open to the public: partially Three art projects can be found on the outdoor grounds: six "Säulen der Poesie" ("Pillars of Poesy”) by Anton Christian, the sculpture "Zeit” ("Time”) by Heinz Gappmayr, as well as benches by Peter Kogler.

On the grounds of the former Tyrolean Loden Factory, located at the northern edge of Innsbruck’s Reichenau district, the largest certified passive house construction in Europe at that time was completed in 2009. Resulting from a 2005 competition, the basic urban planning concept of Architekturwerkstatt din a4 consists of three building complexes that are again respectively composed of two L-shaped structures placed against each other and form large inner courtyards through their interleaving. One building with rental apartments for NEUE HEIMAT TIROL was executed by Architekturwerkstatt din a4, the other two by Architekturhalle Wulz-König, resp., teamk2 [architects].

© Günter R. Wett
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Residential Development Lodenareal II

General-Eccher-Straße 35-49, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Architekturhalle Wulz-König (2007-2009) Builder-owner: ZIMA Open to the public: partially

As part of the residential development on the former Tyrolean Loden Factory premises, the Architekturhalle Wulz-König executed a building with 128 owner-occupied apartments. Following the basic urban planning concept, two L-shaped structures facing each other form an open perimeter block development and surround a square-shaped inner courtyard. This inner courtyard lies one meter higher than the surrounding area and is accessed over two ramps at the openings on the east and west side.

© Angelo Kaunat
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Residential Development Lodenareal III

General Eccher Straße, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: teamk2 [architects] (2007-2009) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol Open to the public: partially

Part 3 of the Lodenareal passive house complex, consisting of three open perimeter block developments, was carried out by teamk2 [architects]. Like the other two buildings, two L-shaped structures form a spacious inner courtyard here. A total of 165 rental apartments are extended for the most part and feature open spaces in the south as well as the west, and household balconies in the north, resp., east. A second façade level with story-high sliding elements provides protection for the open spaces and contributes to the structuring of the large-volume building.

© Günter R. Wett
16

Community Center Assling

Unterassling 28, 9911 Assling, A
Architecture: lor.architektur (2008-2009) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Assling Open to the public: partially

With the new construction of a club house and the concomitant redesign of the village square, a common center was created for the residents of the widely scattered community of Assling, which is made up of 18 hamlets. The existing buildings arranged around the square were bound together by means of an exposed concrete podium with a back wall and roof. The club house, which completes the newly created square in the northeast, was erected adjacent to it.

© Lukas Schaller
17

Living Near the University Bridge

Fürstenweg 5, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Manzl Ritsch Sandner (2007-2009) Builder-owner: ZIMA Open to the public: partially TIP: The inner courtyard is worth while visiting!

From the outside, the solitary building at the university bridge – a residential building mainly built for use by students – presents itself as a shiny white "monolith” with a distinctive cut off corner and rhythmic offset window openings. A house high "entrance slot” leads to the completely different "inside world” where two bent wall slabs covered with oak slats form a paved courtyard accessible via wide loggia landings.

© B&R
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Senior Citizens’ Residence – Extension

Bgm. Artur Wechselberger Weg 2, 6067 Absam, A
Architecture: Hanno Vogl-Fernheim (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Absam Open to the public: partially Accessibility: at walking distance from the centre of the village, slightly beyond the Dörferstraße

The extension of the house for senior citizens built during the late 1990s by Hermann Kastner is an elevated two-storey building with bright spacious rooms. Together with the original building, the L-shaped extension forms a central and protected courtyard with a café and roofed open space. A central element is a chapel built above an oval-shaped ground plan in the courtyard; this was intentionally designed as an introverted place of peace.

© Markus Bstieler
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The "I want to be close to the river” platform

Walther-von-der-Vogelweide Park, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: columbosnext (2008) Builder-owner: aut. architektur und tirol Attention! The platform was removed in may 2010.

For the "2008 Days of Architecture”, aut. architektur und tirol commissioned a 52 m long multi-use walk-on platform in the Walther Park. The temporary building, designed by the columbosnext group, after the "Days of Architecture” remained, first until autumn, then with another permit for nearly two more years, inviting the general public to appropriate a piece of public space and use it for various purposes – and, not in the least, to stop turning their backs to the river instead of experiencing it as a vital part of the cityscape.

© Hanno Mackowitz
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Hypo Tirol Bank – Headquarters

Meranerstraße 8, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Schlögl & Süß Architekten (2006-2008) Builder-owner: Hypo Rent Open to the public: during regular banking hours In the bank building’s yard, the Landhaus 1 by Schlögl & Süß architects and Johann Obermoser was extended with the construction of an administration building and a festival hall

With the Hypo Tyrol Bank Headquarters on the Boznerplatz, a further regional bank has set new architectural trends in the town centre. The transparent building with its vertical slat covering matches the height of the surrounding buildings. With a slight bend at the corner it follows the course of the road and, towards the top of the building it develops into a top floor full of character with a glazed conference room.

© Markus Bstieler
21

MPREIS Salurnerstraße

Salurnerstraße 1, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl (2008) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: Mo-Fri 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sat 7 a.m.-5 p.m. TIP: Café Baguette with "Thai to go”

Across the street from the central station and bus station, an old MPreis branch was expanded and re-shaped to become an appropriately urbane corner of this busy square, with a café and restaurant at street level. The existing building structure, reduced to its barest essentials by all kinds of miracles of stress analysis, is the spectacular eye-catcher in an otherwise rather heterogeneous mass of buildings, together with the green wavy ceiling.

© Lukas Schaller
22

"Kaysergarten" After School Care Facility

Innstraße 113a, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker (2007-2008) Builder-owner: IIG The after school care facility was distinguished at the 2008 ZV Building-Owners-Awards.

The facility mainly built of visible concrete and glass, creates, in dimensionally varying layers, a crossover between the landscape, the edge of the slope and the busy road running along the Inn. The inside of the building, which from the side facing the road appears to be cubic, opens up towards the garden through the surrounding open area. Here, numerous sports facilities including an outdoor swimming pool enable children to carry out their activities.

© Markus Bstieler
23

Steidl furnace expansion and addition

Innervillgraten 76, 9932 Innervillgraten, A
Architecture: Peter Jungmann, Markus Tschapeller (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Alfons Steidl

Way back in a valley in East Tyrol, right next to a torrent, an old, traditional furnace was expanded, with the addition of a "black spatial entity” that with its oblique lighting cubes resembles a negative print of the torrent. Glass panels along the sides mark the high water line of previous floods, large windows bring lots of light into the room, and allow for a good view of the surrounding landscape.

© Wolfgang Retter
24

Natters Music Rehearsal Building and Club House

Innsbruckerstraße 4, 6161 Natters, A
Architecture: Manfred Gsottbauer (2008) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Natters Open to the public: partially Accessibility: Tram route "STB” from Innsbruck main station

The winning concept for the rehearsal, practicing and performance square for the village and its club, which was planned under the key note "give the festival a structure”, was selected from the architectural contest for the village’s regeneration. The main part is a passe-partout type roofed gallery which contains the copper panelled club house and festival-square with stage and, at the same time is a landscape viewing platform.

© Birgit Koell
25

Badehaus Natterer See (Main building and spa lake Natters)

Natterer See 1, 6161 Natters, A
Architecture: Giner + Wucherer (2008) Builder-owner: Familie Giner Open to the public: The all year camping area is open to the public. Accessibility: About 2,5 km from the village of Natters TIP: You can go bathing in the lake; there is, however, an entrance fee.

As part of the newly designed entrance area of the lake Natters camping area, the architects created a long and narrow building for the necessary infrastructure functions that sets up to now unheard of quality standards in the world of tents, caravans and mobile homes. Despite its rather large volume, the two-storey building unpretentiously sits on the lakeshore, sort of becoming part of the landscape. There, you find everything you need for a camping holiday, plus a lot of small highlights and brilliant new ideas.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Wohnen am Lohbach II (residential complex)

Technikerstraße 82, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: driendl*architects (2006-2008) Builder-owner: stadtBAU Accessibility: at the west end of the Franz-Baumann-Weg, bus route O

As a further development of the "Am Lohbach I” project completed in 2000, the Innsbruck Stadtbau GmbH constructed a further five residential buildings. Based on the original town planning concept, Baumschlager & Eberle and driendl*architects realised the two or rather three chessboard type blocks of flats, which although next to each other are slightly offset. Generous, light-flooded development zones characterise the inside of the buildings.

© Milli Kaufmann
27

TOP OF TYROL – Summit Platform

Stubaier Gletscher – Großer Isidor (3.200 m), 6167 Neustift im Stubaital, A
Architecture: LAAC (2008) Builder-owner: Wintersport Tirol approx. 10 minutes from the Schaufeljoch-Lift mountain station
In 2010 the platform was recognised at the BTV (bank for Tyrol and Vorarlberg) Building-Owner-Awards-Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

Situated at an altitude of 3200 metres right in the middle of the Stubaier Glacier, the summit platform "TOP OF TYROL” offers a very impressive view across the Tyrolean Mountains. Based on the existing topography, LAAC architects designed a "symbol in the snow”, which nestles into the flowing movements of the Great Isidor’s rocky ridge and juts out nine metres above the ridge edge.

© LAAC Architekten
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Hotel Schwarzer Adler (Conversions)

Florianigasse 15, 6370 Kitzbühel, A
Architecture: Tatanka, Gogl Architekten (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Christian Harisch, Andreas Harisch Award winner at the 2008 State Awards for Architecture for Tourism and Leisure

Wolfgang Pöschl extended Hotel Adler, a large Tyrolean building of the 1980s, to become a three storey high "Black Spa” in 2001. The building has a wellness area with a sauna, indoor swimming pool and fitness room and is partially sunken into the earth. In 2008 a further storey seen as a foreign body, the "Kitz Summer Spa”, was added to the existing building. The glazed ground floor was fitted with luxury suites, above these "hovers” a roof terrace with a swimming pool enveloped in shingles.

© Paul Ott
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Hotel "Liebe Sonne" (Conversion)

Dorfstraße 58, 6450 Sölden, A
Architecture: M9 ARCHITEKTEN Senfter Lanzinger (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Sonnenhotels Sölden

The first contemporary conversion of the hotel in the middle of Sölden, the "Liebe Sonne”, was carried out on the top floor. The roof space was originally closed at all sides, but after being opened up, is now a two-storey wellness area with the appropriate open space. During the second stage of conversion, the entrance area and the complete ground floor, with its hotel hall and restaurant, was completely renewed in a simple manner and with natural materials.

© Günter R. Wett
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Housing Construction "Leben am Tivoli 1” and "Office am Tivoli”

Josef-Thoman-Straße, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Bruno-Michael Schwamberger (2006-2008) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol, ZIMA Open to the public: Partially (shops, semi-public courtyards) Planned in the competition as a monolithic, solitary high-rise, the "Office am Tivoli” had to be revised several times and reduced in height and was ultimately finalized by ATP as the general planner.

On the 70,000 m2 area of the former Tivoli Stadium a new city district arose from 2005 onwards with over 400 apartments, shops, offices, a senior citizens’ home, a nursery school and a youth center, a hotel, as well as numerous green areas and open spaces. In order to maintain as diverse and lively a district as possible, an individual architecture competition for each building was tendered. The first stage of construction, executed by Bruno Schwamberger, lies in the southeast part of the grounds directly on the South Ring Road and consists of a perimeter block development with apartments that are capped off in the east with the "Office am Tivoli”.

© Bruno Schwamberger
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Housing Construction "Leben am Tivoli 2”

Olympiastraße 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Manzl Ritsch Sandner (2006-2008) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol, ZIMA Open to the public: Partially (shops, semi-public courtyards) Urban development key project and Component 3 by Greulich/Dubokovic Architekten (Darmstadt)

On the southwest corner of the inner city expansion area "Am Tivoli”, Manzl Ritsch Sandner executed a residential building with shop zones on the ground floor area. In contrast to the other buildings, the perimeter block development concept predetermined in the urban development key project is circumferentially carried out here on the ground floor only and is resolved in a building angle and a "corner cube” on the upper stories. Located in the center is a raised plaza, facing the west, which is consciously designed in an urban fashion.

© Pia Sandner
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Nursery School and Youth Center "Am Tivoli”

Olympiastraße 33, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: reitter_architekten (2007-2008) Builder-owner: IIG The nursery school and youth center received a recognition award at the 2010 BTV Builders’ Awards for Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

Starting from the privileged location of the plot as a part of the large, green "Tivoli Lung”, Helmut Reitter carried out a permeable development according to the basic principle of "Pavilions in the Park”. The elongated structure of the "House of Children” and its counterpart, the compact cube of the "Youth Center”, offer the children and young adults spaces that create diverse visual bonds to each other, with the public park and the senior citizens’ home opposite of it.

© Günter R. Wett
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Conversion and Renovation of the Karrösten Village House

Karrösten Nr. 66, 6460 Karrösten, A
Architecture: Raimund Rainer (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Karrösten, Alpenländische Heimstätte Open to the public: partially The project received an honorable mention from the jury during the "Tirol Renovation Prize 2009” competition.

Environmentally-conscious thinking and acting have been strongly emphasized in the community of Karrösten for many years. The village house itself, which houses the village office, a multipurpose hall, as well as a nursery school and apartments, did not meet this requirement at all. The renovation concept, which resulted from an architecture competition, not only brought the existing stock from the1960s up to a passive house quality regarding energy efficiency, but also improved the whole spatial structure around the village office, which was relocated as the connecting middle point on the ground floor.

© Simon Rainer
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Wattens Sports Hall

Egger Lienz Straße 9, 6112 Wattens, A
Architecture: obermoser arch-omo, Thomas Schnizer (2007-2008) Builder-owner: Marktgemeinde Wattens Open to the public: partially

Although the sports hall was built for the neighbouring primary school and is also used by the community’s various sports clubs, it was actually designed by the architects as a building for public use. A large part of the building, covered by a roof with a double bend, is sunken into the ground; the ground floor opens towards the road through a generously glazed foyer. A stand for 300 spectators completes the flowing crossover from the foyer down to the triple gymnasium.

© Henning Koepke
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Internatsschule für Schisportlerinnen (Adaptation and Development of the Stams Boarding School for Female Ski-Sports Pupils)

Wirtsgasse 1, 6422 Stams, A
Architecture: Dieter Tuscher, Martin Maximilian Weiskopf (2008) Builder-owner: Verein Internatsschule für Schisportler Open to the public: partially Accessibility: Just after the trunk road turn-off towards the town centre. The "key-building” of modern Tyrol, the Stams Skiing Grammar School constructed in the late 1970s by Othmar Barth can be found in the immediate vicinity.

The former "Speckbacher” public house has served as a boarding school since the founding of the Skiing Grammar School in the 1970s. The hipped roof house originating from the Baroque era was carefully adapted by Dieter Tuscher and Martin Weiskopf to fit modern requirements. A long new building slightly sunk into the ground was built right next to the older construction. Two room-wings and the connecting passage enclose, as a U-shape, a grassed courtyard open to the west.

© Henning Koepke
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Bischof-Paulus-Heim (student‘s residence)

Santifallerstraße 3, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker (2007-2008) Builder-owner: TIGEWOSI Open to the public: partially The neighbouring "Petrus Canisius” Parish Church was under construction between 1968 and 1972 and built according to plans drawn up by Horst Parson.

In response to the town planning situation in the vicinity of the square shaped church from Horst Parson and, as a transition from residential buildings down to the banks of the Inn zone, Johannes Wiesflecker built a high-standard student’s residence with generously designed rooms and common areas all packed into two basic square buildings of different character. Beneath the building is a hollow space serving as a passage to the Inn.

© Markus Bstieler
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Addis Abeba(r) Ski Hut

Galtür 1b, 6563 Galtür, A
Architecture: VENTIRAARCHITEKTEN (2007) Builder-owner: Adalbert Walter Open to the public: daily from 10:00 hrs, Après Ski during the season from 15:00 hrs

Situated at the Alpkogel skiing slope in the Galtür skiing area is the "Addis Abeba[r]”, a ski hut without the usual hut romanticism. With the basic idea being a snow crystal, ventira architects placed a white cube with cut-outs and a protruding panorama window box on the slope.

© Albrecht I. Schnabel
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Sitzwohl Restaurant | Bar

Stadtforum, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Irmgard Frank (2007) Builder-owner: BTV Open to the public: yes The terrace in front was designed by Hanno Vogl-Fernheim (2008).

When the new BTV city forum was built, the adjacent school, listed as a protected monument, was bought by the bank, to become part of the headquarters. The ground floor and the first floor were then turned into a restaurant and bar. Very subtle interventions opened the front so as to create opportunities for communication between the urban space and the interior. The materials used, the light design and the colours create a very specific atmosphere.

© Pez Hejduk
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Erweiterung Volksschule Amras (Amras elementary school, annex)

Kirchsteig 8, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: riccione architekten (2006-2007) Builder-owner: IIG Accessibility: Tram n. 3 or buses C, T (DEZ shopping centre) Take a pleasant walk through the beautiful park up to Ambras castle.

A solitary cube with an intriguingly structured façade of concrete, glass and larch wood – this is the annex of the Amras elementary school. Very appropriately adapting to the scale of the usually smaller, village-like buildings of a city quarter that had actually once been a small farming village, it does not add to but rather detract from, as it were, the mass of the old school building, and still manages to define e new central square for Amras.

© Martin Tusch
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Congresspark Igls

Eugenpromenade 2, 6080 Igls, A
Architecture: Albert Weber, Kurt Rumplmayr (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Congress und Messe Innsbruck Open to the public: The "TransBaRent” café is open to the public daily from 1 to 8 p.m (in summer) and from 11 a.m to 5 p.m. (in winter) Accessibility: In easy walking distance from 2 stops of bus J in Igls.

The "village” of Igls, at the foothills of the Patscherkofel, is one of the inhabitants’ favorite leisure areas, and shortly will be declared air health resort. Right in the center of the Kurpark there is the congress centre run (as well as its much bigger "cousin” in Innsbruck) by the Innsbruck Congress and Fair Corporation. With the concept of a garden pavilion in mind, the two architects, rather than landing a solid building smack in the middle of the park, merely designed a transparent energy-saving jacket under a rounded overlapping roof. Inside your will find whatever is necessary for smaller assemblies or seminars, plus a public café where you can also sit outside.

© Lukas Schaller
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Landessonderschule mit Internat Mariatal (school and dormitory for the handicapped)

Mariatal 15, 6233 Kramsach, A
Architecture: Marte.Marte Architekten (2005-2007) Builder-owner: Land Tirol Accessibility: Take the road from Kramsach towards Aschau

The old Mariatal school buildings, clustering closely together, resemble an abbey. Marte-Marte architects wanted to re-develop the ensemble of buildings preserving those specific spatial qualities while, at the same time, adding architectural surplus value. The new dormitory continues, as it were, the west wing of the old building, thus closing off the ensemble from the street, creating a new interior courtyard dominated by the old main school building, under the federal law on the protection of monuments, and a new solitary structure.

© Bruno Klomfar
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ILL - Integrierte Landesleitstelle Tirol (Emergency Services Headquarter and Control Centre)

Hunoldstraße 17a, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: obermoser arch-omo, Schlögl & Süß Architekten (2005-2007) Builder-owner: IIG Open to the public: no In 2007 the ILL was awarded the BTV-Building-Owner Award and in 2008 a "Distinction of the State of Tyrol for New Buildings”.

All emergency calls in the region are to – or should – arrive here, and the ILL Centre then coordinates the necessary efforts of the various bodies of assistance, firefighters, ambulance services and the like. The design of the centre strives to underline this highly important function. Four concrete panels, and a central staircase, balance a sweeping and hovering oblong structure, stretching over an impressive span, which gives the firefighters’ vehicles enough room below to move in and out of their garages and, at the same time, creates a "roofed-in” exterior space.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Olperer Hut

Dornauberg 110, 6295 Ginzling, A
Architecture: Hermann Kaufmann (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Deutscher Alpenverein Open to the public: during summer operation Accessibility: From Mayrhofen towards Gitzling to the Schlegeisspeicher (toll road) – there are two possibilities of ascending from the reservoir (approx. 600 metres elevation). TIP: Starting point for a number of mountain trips, possibilities of overnight stays.

The Olperer Hut built at an altitude of almost 2.400 metres in the Zillertaler Alps is an intentional and simple answer to the unique and exposed location. The main objective was to develop a very simple shelter to fit the high alpine location. A refuge for hikers and mountaineers with its innovation being in its simplicity.

© Hermann Kaufmann
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Glacier Terminal

Mutterbergalm, 6167 Neustift im Stubaital, A
Architecture: ao-architekten (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Wintersport Tirol, Stubaier Bergbahnen KG Accessibility: Route "Regio Stubai" from the Innsbruck main station TIP: With the cable lift up to the Schaufeljoch Mountain Restaurant "Jochdohle” and then on to the summit platform "TOP OF TYROL”.

The glacier terminal extension provides the existing Stubaier glacier cable lift valley station with a new reception area. The extension connects the existing heterogeneous buildings and, for the first time presents the single and double cable lifts as a single unit. A form-giving element is the curved and greened roof, beneath this is the transparent cladding of the lifts reception area.

© Arno Gisinger
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"Sunna Alm" – Mountain Restaurant

Bergstation Rifflseebahn, 6481 St. Leonhard / Pitztal, A
Architecture: reitter_architekten (2007) Builder-owner: Pitztaler Gletscherbahn Open to the public: when the Rifflsee cable car is operating Accessibility: directly next to the Rifflsee cable car

In 2007 the "Sunna Alm” at the Pitztaler Glacier and Rifflsee ski resort was Europe’s first passive house to be built at an altitude of 2300 metres. Both the inside and outside of the restaurant building are characterised by wood and glass, with which modern tourism and traditional mountain life are connected without slipping into the embarrassing cliché of being rustic. The outside of the building was deliberately finished in larch-wood-shingle as a reference to Josef Lackner’s Rifflsee cable car valley station.

© Mojo Reitter
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Hotel Hinteregger (Conversion and Extension)

Hintermarkt 4, 9971 Matrei, A
Architecture: Madritsch Pfurtscheller (2007) Builder-owner: Katharina Hradecky The extension received an award at the 2010 BTV Building-Owner-Awards-Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

Directly in the centre of Matrei is the now historic hotel Hinteregger. The architects used a former cinema hall as a supporting structure for the extension of the northeast wing. The former outside wall was plastered with clay and integrated as a "heating wall”, a wooden construction at loggia level was placed ahead. A wellness zone has been set up on the first floor; its completely glazed front opens the room towards the garden.

© Wolfgang Retter
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McTirol (former CUBE Biberwier)

Fernpass Straße 71-72, 6633 Biberwier, A
Architecture: Baumschlager Eberle (2006-2007) Builder-owner: T1 Accessibility: directly on the Fernpass trunk road at the foot of the Marienberg lift.

The McTirol (former CUBE Biberwier) can be found at the edge of the town centre directly next to the Marienberg lift. Its concept has been adjusted to fit active sports holidaymakers, its design is an element of lifestyle. The inside of the Cube, which from the outside is plain, has an open interior design with ramps and generous open zones to accommodate for hotel life, which first and foremost, is kept out of the rooms.

© Eduard Hueber
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Hungerburg Cable Railway – The Congress, Löwenhaus, Apine Zoo und Hungerburg stations

Höhenstraße 151, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects (2004-2007) Builder-owner: INKB Open to the public: daily 8:30 a.m.–17:30 p.m (when the cable car is running)

After the Bergisel ski jump, the four station buildings and the oblique suspension bridge across the river make up the second project Zaha Hadid realised in Innsbruck. Starting from the fundamental concept of a shell and the shadow thrown by it, she designed an organically shaped glass shell over a concrete landscape, the translucent roof spreading and extending, as it were, the stations’ spaces, thus staging a drama of movement adapted to the particular character of each location.

© Tirol Werbung/Stefan Dauth
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Housing Construction "Leben am Tivoli 4”

Adele-Obermayr-Straße 2-12, Josef-Thomann Straße 1-5, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Architekturhalle Wulz-König (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol, ZIMA Open to the public: Partially (semi-public courtyards)

Executed by Architekturhalle Wulz-König, Component 4 is a reinterpretation of the perimeter block development arising from the natural slope of the construction site. The base of the building incised into the west of the slope is opened towards the northeast, corresponding to the incline. Lying above the base, the five to seven residential stories are distinctly raised from the streetscape. Broad recesses break through the perimeter block development in two places and afford lateral views to the south and west.

© Angelo Kaunat
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Senior Citizens’ Residential Home Tivoli

Adele Obermayer Straße 14, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Noldin & Noldin (2006-2007) Builder-owner: stadtBAU Open to the public: partially The residential home received a recognition award at the BTV Builders’ Awards for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in 2010.

A senior citizens’ residential home is located at a central point of the inner city expansion area "Am Tivoli”. The residential floors are arranged around an inner courtyard and placed onto a recessed base story where the public facilities are housed. Despite the compactness and the required, compartmentalized structure, the clear architectural language of the cubic building conveys a generous sense of space.

© Noldin und Noldin Architekten
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"Sillpark" Shopping Center – Expansion

Museumstraße 38, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: ATP architekten ingenieure (2006-2007) Builder-owner: ISP Leasing GmbH Open to the public: during shop opening hours

Erected in the late 1980s by ATP on the grounds of the former Rhomberg textile factory, "Sillpark” is Innsbruck’s largest inner city shopping center. The expansion, which resulted from a competition, supplements the postmodern stock with a four-story, monolithic annex and a newly designed plaza space facing the inner city. In the building’s interior, an inner space opened over two stories is traversed by a roof made of partially printed, partially satined glass that brings a rich variety of true light into the mall.

© Günter R. Wett
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Townscape Redevelopment Telfs

6410 Telfs, A
Architecture: Architekturhalle Wulz-König (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Telfs Open to the public: yes Accessibility: Several streets along Obermarkt, resp., Untermarktstraße

The goal of the redevelopment was to transform the town center, strongly impacted by traffic in the past, into a publically usable space with amenity qualities. By reducing the road width, space for wider sidewalks and plaza-like extensions were created, which were designed with granite plates of different sizes. Information points, fountains, benches, rows of trees and plant and flower beds structure the street space; a lighting concept ensures that the various areas are more or less brightly illuminated according to their significance.

© Angelo Kaunat
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Cultural Center Sillian

Sillian 86a, 9920 Sillian, A
Architecture: Machné Architekten (2007) Builder-owner: TIGEWOSI, Gemeinde Sillian Open to the public: partially

Built on a lot opposite the town hall, the Cultural Center consists of a monolithic, formally independent structure that creates an identification point in the heterogeneously developed community. Sitting above a pervious ground floor is a protruding, closed upper floor with a multifunctional event hall that is shaped in such a way that the large volume does not appear in its full height from the street side.

© Paul Ott
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Brixlegg Secondary Modern School

Römerstraße 18, 6230 Brixlegg, A
Architecture: Raimund Rainer (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Brixlegg Immobilien GmbH In 2007, the school was distinguished at the 5th BTV Building-Owner-Awards-Tyrol.

Based on town planning considerations, the new secondary modern school building was designed so that together with the polytechnic and nursery school, it would create an integrated spacious premises. The inside of the "passive house” school is flooded with light. The school’s central hall opens up into a space illuminated from above, around this an open staircase providing access to the class and group rooms.

© Simon Rainer
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The Tyrolean Economic Chamber, Kufstein District Office

Salurnerstraße 7, 6330 Kufstein, A
Architecture: FUCHSUNDPEER (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Wirtschaftskammer Tirol – Immobilien Open to the public: partially

As part of necessary redevelopment measures, the Economic Chamber - Kufstein District Office was restructured and raised in height. The ground floor was completely gutted and opened up to become a vestibule. A second storey was built on top, thus turning the building into a compact – above the ground floor – suspended and combined body.

© Günter R. Wett
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Sensei – Sushibar zum Roten Fisch

Maria-Theresien- Straße 11, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl (2006-2007) Builder-owner: Brunhilde Fröschl, Dil Ghamal Open to the public: daily noon-2:30 p.m. and 5:30-11 p.m. TIP: Make sure you sit in the oriel, and then enjoy the view and your sushi.

A former office on the first floor of a house, again listed under the federal law on the protection of monuments, was turned into a restaurant where one can take part, as it were, in the visual and acoustic drama that is happening in the street, and then switch effortlessly to concentrating on the works of art provided by the kitchen. The wide oriel window in front is as much part of the street’s public space as it works as a theatre box to look out from within, from an interior space characterised by black panels and various kinds of dark wood.

© Lukas Schaller
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Hungerburg Cable Railway – The Congress, Löwenhaus, Apine Zoo und Hungerburg stations

Rennweg 3 (Talstation Congress), 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects (2005-2007) Builder-owner: INKB Open to the public: daily 8:30 a.m.–17:30 p.m (when the cable car is running)

After the Bergisel ski jump, the four station buildings and the oblique suspension bridge across the river make up the second project Zaha Hadid realised in Innsbruck. Starting from the fundamental concept of a shell and the shadow thrown by it, she designed an organically shaped glass shell over a concrete landscape, the translucent roof spreading and extending, as it were, the stations’ spaces, thus staging a drama of movement adapted to the particular character of each location.

© Norbert Freudenthaler
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krischan panoptikum

Stainerstraße 3, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Giner + Wucherer (2006) Builder-owner: krischan panoptikum Open to the public: The shop is open Mo-Fri 9 a.m-6 p.m., Sat 10 a.m-1 p.m.

The entrance and the shop rooms of an old building, which comes under the federal law on the protection of monuments, had to be adapted to house an optician’s shop. The long main room, with a baroque vault, was returned, as far as possible, to its original state. A sculptural piece of furniture with a tapestry of red felt, and a working table covered by green rubber stand free of the walls to counterpoint the historical brickwork.

© Günter R. Wett
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Landeck State Music School

Schulhausplatz 1, Landeck, A
Architecture: ostertag ARCHITECTS (2005-2006) Builder-owner: Stadtgemeinde Landeck Open to the public: partially

Together, the new solitary music school building, the revitalisation of the neighbouring "Klösterles” (Konvent) and a subterranean connecting passage, all form a joint architectural structure developed at a prominent town location. The building links three neighbouring spaces to form a new town centre. The new building’s glass façade opens up towards the market square; a semi-transparent layer of expanded copper provides privacy and serves as protection from the sun.

© Andreas Buchberger
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Aradira Apartment Building

Schmiedsegg 661, 6555 Kappl, A
Architecture: VENTIRAARCHITEKTEN (2006) Builder-owner: Familie Juen Accessibility: Turn off right at the centre of Kappl (church) and follow the road for approximately 250 metres.

The small holiday apartment facility "Aradira” – name of Rhaeto-Romanic origin – consists of four apartment villas arranged terrace-shaped along the slope. Each unit offers guests maximum privacy, a small sauna and wellness facility is available for shared use.

© Wolfgang Juen
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"Arche”– Holiday Home

Dorfbahnstraße 58, 6534 Serfaus, A
Architecture: Bettina Platter (2006)

Situated directly in the centre of Serfaus is the generously designed Arche holiday home. Above the ground floor, in which apart from the living area there is a self-sufficient holiday flat, is a protruding wooden box with four large bedrooms. Slightly at an angle to this, the top floor offering guests a large wellness area including an atrium and restroom and a view of the skies.

© Lukas Schaller
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Pezid Apartments

Dorfbahnstraße 62, 6534 Serfaus, A
Architecture: Giner + Wucherer, Andreas Pfeifer (2005-2006) Builder-owner: Pezid TIP: ©hill-Lounges – comfortable cosy corners overlooking magnificent mountain scenery.

The Pezid apartments in Serfaus are a classic example of the intelligent restructuring of post war architectural "burdens of the past”. The old, hardly ever put to use balcony façade, was transformed into useful space with loggias with "reclining-chair-oriels” integrated on the inside. In 2007 this transformation to a "modern-mountain-hotel” was awarded the BTV (bank for Tyrol and Vorarlberg) - Building-Owner-Award-Tyrol.

© Günter R. Wett
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centrum.odorf

An-der-Lan-Straße 42, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Froetscher Lichtenwagner (2003-2006) Builder-owner: IIG Visit the MPREIS and its small café

The new centre of the Olympic Village, the winning project of a Europan competition, is said to be, and really is, a textbook example of urban density added to a pre-existing tissue, injecting also new meaning and creating a new identity for "suburbia”. The L-shaped building consists of a lower part containing shopping areas and public institutions like a kindergarten and a 16-storey residential tower, and encloses a square with (fortunately only) few pieces of urban furniture, thus leaving a lot of space for a variety of potential uses, creating a stage for the every-day vitality this city district is able to exude.

© Lukas Schaller
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Veranstaltungszentrum FoRum (event centre)

Rathausplatz 1, 6063 Rum, A
Architecture: Richard Freisinger, Hans Peter Gruber (2005-2006) Builder-owner: Immobilien Rum Accessibility: via the "Dörferstraße” from Innsbruck through the villages on the northern foothills to Hall, bus line D or E TIP: Café FORUM, open daily 9:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The centre is situated next to the church, the churchyard and the seat of the municipality of the large village of Rum. The complex of one-storey and two-storey buildings, respectful of the more rural character of the village, reflects the proportions of the surrounding buildings. The nicely renovated old seat of the village administration, a stage and grandstand with a roof, for all types of events, and the other parts of the complex together shape a graciously designed square.

© Günter R. Wett
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Galzigbahn Valley Station

Kandaharweg 9, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: driendl*architects (2006) Builder-owner: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG Open to the public: during hours of operation The valley station was awarded a prize at the 2009 ISR Architectural Awards.

The Galzigbahn valley station presents itself as a very individual and at first sight, strange artificial design. However, the glass-steel-concrete building is by no means an architectural self-dramatisation, but a form developed directly from the innovative cable lift technology. A sweeping building with a glass roof rises above massive concrete head walls. This portrays the lifts sequence of motions and reveals the technical inner mechanism.

© Bruno Klomfar
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Austrian Skiing Academy

St. Christoph 10, 6580 St. Christoph, A
Architecture: Geri Blasisker (2006) Builder-owner: Austria Ski Sportanlagen

An extension has been built onto the Skiing Academy formerly known as the Federal Sports Home. The new building has six levels, all part of a ski training centre – from a seminar hall at sub-basement level to a sauna and wellness area on the roof. The independent large form of the crystalline shaped building attempts to meet the requirements of its location without matching the traditional alpine type of design too much.

© Mike Mayer
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Ahornbahn – Valley and Mountain Stations

Ahornstraße 878, 6290 Mayrhofen, A
Architecture: M9 ARCHITEKTEN Senfter Lanzinger (2005-2006) Builder-owner: Mayrhofner Bergbahnen AG Open to the public: during hours of operation TIP: Panorama circular route from the mountain station to, among other places, Ahornsee.

The Ahorn mountain and valley stations in Mayrhofen in the Zillertal both differ from many other contemporary lifts due to their precise association with the location and landscape. It’s not the highly complex technological "content” as a shuttle-lift – which alone due to the technology requires very high structures – that puts them into focus, but the constructive dialogue of the station’s high constructions with their respective surroundings.

© David Schreyer
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Olympia Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge

Olympiastraße, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Anton Widauer (2005-2006) Builder-owner: Land Tirol, Stadt Innsbruck

The pedestrian and bicycle bridge, a four-field steel composite structure running next to the four-lane "Olympia Bridge,” spans 250 meters over the railroad tracks of Innsbruck’s Main Railway Station and the Sill River. Blinding out the car traffic, the 300-meter-long parapet beam bends as a dynamically formed separator element from east to west. A large-scale exposed concrete beam breaks away from the terrain in the east and shows the stairs.

© Günter R. Wett
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Völs Town Hall

Dorfstraße 35, 6176 Völs, A
Architecture: Peter Pozzo, Anton Widauer (2004-2006) Builder-owner: Marktgemeinde Völs Open to the public: partially

In close vicinity to the existing town hall, a second, barrier-free administration building was erected for the community. The heterogeneous, rurally structured setting and the steeply rising slope of the Blasiusberg Mountain defined the scale, shape and materiality of the new structure. As if growing out of the slope, a corten-steel roof edges its way over the otherwise very transparently kept building.

© Günter R. Wett
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Village Hall "de calce”

Ködnitz 15, 9981 Kals am Großglockner, A
Architecture: Schneider & Lengauer (2004-2006) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Kals Open to the public: partially TIP: Also worth seeing is the renovation of the rectory erected by the barons from Görz around 1480, which was executed at the same time by Schneider & Lengauer.

Like the Glocknerhaus planned several years previously by the same architects, the community center enters into a dialog with the topographic conditions and the township of Ködnitz, which is characterized by the parish church and the late Gothic rectory. The four-story, compact structure with flat roofs and horizontal lines establishes a very serene relationship to the existing stock, without compromising it in its singularity.

© Paul Ott
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BTV Stadtforum

Erlerstraße 10, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Heinz Tesar, obermoser arch-omo (2004-2006) Builder-owner: BTV Open to the public: during regular banking hours, Mon-Fri, 7:45 a.m.–4 p.m. TIP: FO.KU.S – City forum photo art: expositions of contemporary art and photography

The BTV City Forum, right in the centre of the city core, is the bank’s new company headquarter, containing offices, an ample customers’ centre, an event hall and rooms for contemporary art and photography expositions. The sculptural building complex fits in well with the pre-existing Gruenderzeit block structure, the corner being marked by a striking tower. The core of the building is the grand soaring hall.

© N. Schletterer, © BTV
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Nordkette Cable Railway – Refurbishment of the Hungerburg, Seegrube and Hafelekar stations

Höhenstraße 145 (Talstation Hungerburg), 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Schlögl & Süß Architekten (2006) Builder-owner: INKB Open to the public: daily 8:30 a.m.–17:30 p.m (when the cable car is running) Accessibility: Hungerburg cable railway or bus J TIP: Fri, 6-11:30 p.m, night runs up to Seegrube

The stations originally designed in the late 1920s by Franz Baumann certainly are some of the most important monuments of modernism in Tyrol. In the course of a technological upgrade of the cable railway, the stations had inevitably to be adapted both functionally and spatially. All the necessary interventions, however, were developed strictly along the lines of either severely restoring the original building as designed by Baumann, thus cancelling all later additions, or ostentatiously showing contemporary additions to be just that: changes added because they were necessary.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Landhaus 2 (new seat of the regional administration)

Heiliggeiststraße 7-9, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: fpa frank und probst architekten, Walter Schwetz Architekt (2003-2005) Builder-owner: L2 Errichtungs- und VermietungsgesmbH Open to the public: partly TIP: "Landhaus 2” Café and restaurant with terrace

When the municipal corporation IKB decided to move workshops and warehouses, demolishing the old buildings in the backyard of the company headquarter, this was an opportunity for the regional government to concentrate some services formerly scattered over various places. At the same time, it was possible to create new public spaces and passages to link the city centre with the Wilten district. The offices are grouped around three green interior courtyards with glass roofs, an atrium doubling as the central lounge and two more passage-like entrances guarantee easy accessibility for the public.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Volksschule Innere Stadt (Central elementary school)

Angerzellgasse 12, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Thomas Schnizer, Gerald Prenner (2003-2005) Builder-owner: BIG Open to the public: The garden between the school, the old university building and the Jesuits’ College.

What formerly had been the university botanic garden is now a park-like public green with old trees right in the centre of town. By situating the transparent structure of the new elementary school along Angerzellgasse, and by building three underground gyms – which are used by the adjacent high school as well – it was possible not to disturb the park as a peaceful "green island” in the hectic inner city.

© Martin Tusch
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Pardorama

Pardatschgrat, 6561 Ischgl, A
Architecture: Jäger Architektur (2004-2005) Builder-owner: Silvretta Seilbahn AG Ischgl Open to the public: only open during the winter season Accessibility: from Ischgl with the Pardatschgrat lift (approx. 15 min.)

The panorama restaurant with its congress centre on top of the 2.620 metres high Pardatschgrat in the Ischgl skiing area is distinguished by its simple forms and materials. A particular challenge during the construction of the two buildings was to find a technological solution to compensate for the frost-thaw rising and sinking of the ground below.

© Fotostudio Mario
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Office building Sparkassenplatz 5

Sparkassenplatz 5, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Johannes Wiesflecker (2004-2005) Builder-owner: Tiroler Sparkasse Open to the public: Partly; you may visit "wohn2Center” on the ground floor.

This is another one of the office buildings designed by Johannes Wiesflecker to make up the new Sparkasse headquarters along Sparkassenplatz. The adjacent, older, building became part, in a way, of the square’s re-design: In cooperation with the landscape architect Rainer Schmidt, the building’s front was turned into a "green wall”.

© Markus Bstieler
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Hotel Ibis and Central Bus Station

Sterzingerstraße 1, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Manzl Ritsch Sandner (2004-2005) Builder-owner: Raiffeisen Evolution The Station and the Hotel are sort of connected by the Federal Railway’s network control centre, the "Innsbruck Office Terminal”, designed jointly by Rieger & Riewe and Manzl, Ritsch, Sandner.

The central bus station shapes the southern fringe of the station square. The hotel there was conceived as the counterpart, not only as far as dimensions were concerned, to the station hall. While the station hall is a cube of light below street level, the hotel is a black monolith above street level and, at the same time, keeps waiting bus passengers in the spacious area underneath safe from any bad weather.

© Markus Bstieler
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MPREIS Nauders

Nauders 257, 6543 Nauders, A
Architecture: Fügenschuh Hrdlovics Architekten (2005) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours TIP: Places worth while visiting in and around Nauders: Naudersberg Castle, Nauders fortress and the Altfinstermünz and Sigmundseck fortresses.

At a slight distance from the Reschenpass-Straße, the MPREIS supermarket curves along the gentle back of a slope towards the Schloßberg. The inside offers a high two-part illuminated main room with a visible wooden construction area for the shelves for goods. For the daylight sensitive fresh goods, a low, closed, element as an introverted backbone embedded in the slope.

© Lukas Schaller
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ASI-Lodge (Extension of Hotel Windegg)

Steinberg am Rofan 30, 6215 Steinberg am Rofan, A
Architecture: Heinz & Mathoi & Streli (2004-2005) Builder-owner: Elfriede Gasser Accessibility: from Jenbach along the Achensee B181 trunk road to Achenkirch and from here to Steinberg am Rofan TIP: Daily visitors are welcome to visit the restaurant with its sun terrace.

During the 1980s, Hotel Windegg was reconstructed and extended in a contemporary and landscape related manner by the architect Hans Peter Petri. After changing hands, the hotel was converted for a second time, whereby the bedroom wing and the striking staircase tower remained in place. Heinz-Mathoi-Streli constructed a new three-storey building directly next to the hotel. This building, with its vertical larch-wood façade, is clearly different from the original white building.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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MPREIS Niederndorf

Audorferstraße 20, 6342 Niederndorf, A
Architecture: LORENZATELIERS (2005) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours

The tree trunks surrounding the cubic glass building are the characteristic feature of this supermarket. The untreated spruce trunks stripped of their bark have been placed at irregular intervals forming a homogeneous construction. They also provide a functional filter in front of the roof-high fixed glazing, define protected outside-areas and spaces in between and, allow interesting "light and shadow shows” to take place inside the building.

© Thomas Jantscher
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Apartment and office building Anichstraße

Anichstraße 8, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault, Rolf Reichert (2002-2004) Builder-owner: Rathauspassage GmbH, Hans Rubatscher Open to the public: The ground floor passage from the mall to Anichstraße is open Sun-Thu 7 a.m. to midnight; Fri and Sat 7 a.m.-2. a.m. On the 2nd floor there is Dr. Grubwieser’s medical studio by Rainer Köberl-

Next to Perrault’s City Hall and mall, a private investor commissioned an apartment and office building on Anichstraße, the ground floor passage also serves as the southern entrance to the mall. Here, Perrault designed a tower in different shades of dark colours, with a 20 m golden metal curtain in front - an allusion, of course, to the famous Golden Roof - that stages a striking entrance to the mall, since this was not possible on Maria-Theresien-Straße, out of respect for the conservation of monuments.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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'MANNA' Delikatessencafé

Maria-Theresien-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl (2004) Builder-owner: Hansjörg Kuen, Siegfried Spögler Open to the public: Mo-Sat 8 a.m-8 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

A very urbane, if not metropolitan café in a 15th century building listed as a monument? Yes, that is what the "Manna" is. The narrow room, partly stretching over two storeys, is virtually subdivided by a rather complex spatial organisation, the materials – predominantly oak and black glass – contrast the historical substance.

© Lukas Schaller
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Landeck Retirement Home, Reconstruction

Schulhausplatz 11, 6500 Landeck, A
Architecture: gharakhanzadeh sandbichler architekten (2004) Builder-owner: Stadtamt Landeck Open to the public: partially The project was part of the architects research work on "Revitalisation with Synergy Activating Modules (s.a.m)”.

With the use of prefabricated wooden components, a constructional, functional and artistic unsatisfactory building was – without disturbing the operational service – redeveloped and converted from a retirement home into a nursing home. The more or less disused terrace balconies were removed and the rooms extended by means of box type modules. The façade was covered in sheet-copper panels, colourful sun blinds contribute to making the building look much nicer.

© Rupert Steiner
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Paznaun Secondary Modern School

Lochau 645, 6555 Kappl, A
Architecture: Noldin & Noldin (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Schulverband Paznaun Accessibility: directly on the Silvretta-Trunk Road just before Lochau The elementary school nearby was built in 2017 according to plans by stoll.wagner+partner.

The compact common school centre belonging to the four valley communities is at a right angle to the valley; its horizontal position blends with surrounding nature. The outside of the building reacts with the location’s rough climate; the inside consists of bright rooms, which have been adapted to fit their various uses with their colour and shapes. The triple gymnasium has been sunken halfway into the ground; the roof can be used for breaks and as open space.

© Margherita Spiluttini
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Buchhandlung Haymon (bookstore)

Sparkassenplatz 4, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl (2004) Builder-owner: Markus Hatzer, Thomas Wiederin Open to the public: Mo-Fri 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 9:30 a.h.-5 p.m. TIP: In the evenings, often authors read from their books or present new works.

The bookstore on Sparkassenplatz, by Rainer Köberl, is a "black box” for books. Through two big store windows one can look into the store. Before and behind the windows there is a lot of space for books to be presented. The floor, the walls, the ceiling and the furniture – everything is black, so everybody’s attention will be focussed on the true stars of the production: the books.

© Lukas Schaller
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Isser Optik (optician’s shop)

Meinhardstraße 3, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Schlögl & Süß Architekten (2004) Builder-owner: Familie Isser Open to the public: during regular business hours.

Amidst architecturally heterogeneous buildings, the Isser optician’s shop creates a space for the eyes to rest. Almost unimpaired, passers-by can look into the show and sales area and concentrate on the goods presented there, since the purist design refrains from distracting their attention.

© Markus Bstieler
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Hauptbahnhof Innsbruck (Central Station)

Südtiroler Platz 2, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Riegler Riewe Architekten (2001-2004) Builder-owner: ÖBB Open to the public: yes The two giant frescoes by Max Weiler (1954/55) have been transferred from the old station hall to the new building.

A long-stretching red cover encloses the Innsbruck Central Station; its main level had been lowered down to be directly accessible from the underground parking lot. The spacious grand hall with a gallery houses the railway’s customer area, shops, cafés and restaurants. The perforated concrete cover engulfs all the building’s functions and allows quick and furtive, filtered, as it were, glances from the platforms into the city.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Südtiroler Platz (Südtirol Square)

Südtiroler Platz, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Riegler Riewe Architekten (2004) Builder-owner: ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, Stadt Innsbruck

At the same time the Central Station was re-built, the station square was re-designed. Separate lanes for car traffic and public transport, and an underground parking lot directly accessible from the station hall make sure that different modes of transport do not interfere with one another. The asphalt’s artificial red color nicely relates to the station building.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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MPREIS Hauptbahnhof (food store)

Südtirolerplatz 3-5, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl, Michael Steinlechner (2003-2004) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: daily (including Sunday) from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Accessibility: Entrance from the Station’s lower main level.

The individual stores of the MPreis food chain, which was the first to use high quality architecture to express its corporate identity, are designed by ever varying architects to precisely fit into or react to a specific context. This one, situated on the lower level of the Central Station, without daylight, is a "glittering cave”. Black glass panels form the ceiling and mirror the goods staged on brightly lit shelves and the customers, thus creating a theatre of goods that refuses to be imprisoned by well-defined limits of space.

© Lukas Schaller
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BTV - Zweigstelle Olympisches Dorf (BTV Olympic Village branch)

Schützenstraße 49, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Hanno Vogl-Fernheim (2003-2004) Builder-owner: BTV Open to the public: during regular banking hours. Accessibility: Bus O

Covered by something like a crochet veil of bronze sheets, and actually rather small in comparison to the looming apartment buildings, the building of the bank’s branch office is hovering over the halfway underground customer parking lot. With a small square in front, and the drive-in telling machine, this precious little jewelery box of a bank projects a new urban quality into what before had been just another suburban block.

© J. Weiss, © BTV
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EWZ Eduard Wallnöfer Centre

Eduard-Wallnöfer-Zentrum 1, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Henke Schreieck Architekten (2003-2004) Builder-owner: TIVELOP Open to the public: Partly (café and assembly hall) Accessibility: from Innsbruck, with bus S or 4 "U.Zwei café.bar” in the university building

The research and teaching campus of the Eduard Wallnöfer Centre for medical innovation is situated in the middle of a spacious park near the Old Town of Hall.
The architects designed the abstract glass cube, which is accentuated by angular perforated sheet metal sun-blocking blades, as a forceful counterpoint to the surrounding park-scape. A two-storey assembly hall defines the center of the atrium-type building, which houses a private university and other educational institutions.

© henke und schreieck Architekten
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EWZ student dormitory and kindergarten

Eduard-Wallnöfer-Zentrum 2, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Henke Schreieck Architekten (2003-2004) Builder-owner: TIVELOP Accessibility: from Innsbruck, with bus S or 4

The general idea was to bridge the gap between the Old Town and the residential area farther to the east with a third university building along Milserstraße.
Thus, a classy student dormitory housing also a kindergarten was added to round up the EWZ campus. Just as the university building itself, the dormitory is designed as an atrium-type house. Around the open interior space, there is a cluster of social rooms for general use, with generously spacious terraces, while from their private rooms the students can look out into the park.

© Bruno Klomfar
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KIZ Kirchenzentrum (Church Centre)

Marktstraße 24, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: AllesWirdGut (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Pfarramt St. Anton

AllesWirdGut constructed a church for the St. Anton Vicarage, with living accommodation for the minister and his guests, a parish office, a leisure room for local youths and, sleeping accommodation for those who would like to take a rest whilst on a pilgrimage along the "Way of St. James” to Santiago de Compostela. By making use of the slope facing towards the south and the spatial possibilities provided by a steep gable ended roof, it was possible to accommodate all functions in a compact four storey building.

© Hertha Hurnaus
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Nursery School

Auweg 10, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: AllesWirdGut (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Gemeinde St. Anton In 2004 the nursery school was awarded a "Distinction of the State of Tyrol for New Buildings”.

Such as the Church Centre constructed by AllesWirdGut, the nursery school also forms an artistic unit in accordance with town planning ideas. The building is situated at the northeast edge of the plot, thus at a distance from the busy road. Large windows and a saw-tooth roof allow light to flood the inside of the building, which, right down to the very last detail, is adapted to suit children. In 2016, the kindergarten was expanded with a one-storey wooden building (architecture: Karl Gitterle).

© Hertha Hurnaus
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Brizerhaus – Holiday Flats and Farmhouse

Ramsau Nr. 318, 6283 Ramsau im Zillertal, A
Architecture: Martin Feiersinger (2002-2004) Builder-owner: Natalie Kröll In 2004 the project was awarded the ZV-Building-Owner-Award and also a "Distinction of the State of Tyrol for New Buildings”.

The cautious renovation of an old farmhouse and the new building extension with four holiday flats provides a new interpretation of the topic of "Old-New”. In place of the old stables, a massive structure with the original building’s dimensions was constructed and then covered with the old stable’s planks – a refreshing approach based on the transferring of the customary.

© Werner Feiersinger
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Hotel Pension Perfler

Sillian 166, 9920 Sillian, A
Architecture: Peter Jungmann (2004) Builder-owner: Michaela Strieder, Peter Lubeley The tourism building was distinguished at the 2005 BTV Building-Owner-Awards-Tyrol.

The small family owned boarding house in Sillian was converted and extended by the architect Peter Jungmann. The original building’s ground floor was opened as a dining room and fireplace-lobby, a terrace facing towards the south was added. The flat extension building with eight hotel rooms was completed using local building materials and furnished with harmonious materials and detail.

© Wolfgang Retter
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Turmmuseum Oetz (Tower Museum of Oetz)

Schulweg 2, 6433 Oetz, A
Architecture: Brunner + Sallmann (2002-2004) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Oetz Open to the public: Thu-Suni 2 p.m.–6 p.m open on Wed in the summer) Accessibility: Parking possibility at the parking lot in the center of Oetz To see in the museum: the Hans Jäger Collection, as well as regular special exhibitions.

With the "Tuum,” ("tower”), the village center of Oetz possesses one of the oldest and most significant secular buildings in the Ötztal Valley, which was made accessible to the public through the complete refurbishment and adaptation of the museum. The unobtrusive exterior design, the staging of the route guidance and the design of the additions needed for museum operation form an exciting dialog with the historic stock.

© Arno Gisinger
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Community Center "Haus Valgrata”

9931 Außervillgraten, A
Architecture: Machné & Durig, Machné Architekten, Peter Jungmann (2004) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Außervillgraten Open to the public: partially Accessibility: At the northwestern edge of the village, directly on, resp. above the state road

With the "Haus Valgrata” a distinctive building in which various communal institutions were brought together arose at the edge of the village. Adjacent to the existing fire brigade house with a hall for cultural events, the recycling center and construction yard were accommodated in an elongated structure. Its roof forms a large entrance stairway and ends in a new plaza. Located behind it are the foyer and multipurpose hall, which were realized for the most part as superstructure extending above the state road.

© Paul Ott
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Travel Europe Reiseveranstaltung

Unterdorf 37a, 6135 Stans, A
Architecture: Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Albert Rüf (2004) Builder-owner: Helmut Gschwentner, Anton Gschwentner Accessibility: from the town centre/church towards the railway station The administration building was awarded the State Award for Architecture in 2006.

Set into the landscape in a self-confident and eye-catching manner, the glass building – deriving from a contest put up for tender – accommodates a "work-landscape” in the form of an open-plan office. Three inner courtyards and the transparent façade allow the building to be penetrated with light and green-nature, slight level differences allow varying perspectives between the "winding” offices and terraces and the parking space "pushed” under the building.

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Adambräu Brewery

Lois-Welzenbacher-Platz 1, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Rainer Köberl, Giner + Wucherer (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Stadt Innsbruck Open to the public: Tue-Fri 11 a.m.–6 p.m, Thu 11 a.m.–9 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (aut); by appointment only (University Architecture Archive) Accessibility: Close to the Central Station on Südbahnstraße, entrance from the courtyard in the back of the building
Tel. +43 (512) 57 15 67 (aut)
Tel. +43 (512) 507 33101 (Archiv für Baukunst)

This part of the former Adambräu brewery, a landmark industrial building of classical modernism by Lois Welzenbacher, came under the federal law on the protection of monuments when the brewery closed down. Most respectful, nearly invisible interventions turned the functionalist structure into what might be described as a pulsating machine to convey architecture. On the lower floors,aut. architektur und tirol continually proposes exhibitions and lectures on contemporary architecture, the upper floors are occupied by the University Architecture Archive.

© Lukas Schaller
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Sporthaus Okay (sports store)

Maria-Theresien-Straße 47, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Tatanka (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Wintersport Tirol Open to the public: Mo-Fri 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Sa 9 a.m.–5 p.m. TIP: From the store, you can walk out on the small wooden balcony overlooking Maria-Theresien-Straße and get a unique view of Innsbruck’s "showcase”

The cubic structure, and its translucent skin – an alien here – provoked controversial discussions. This 21st century building asserts itself, un-self-consciously, against the adjacent baroque Taxis palace, the Servites’ Church across the street, and the square in front of the seat of the regional government behind. And still it sensitively fits into the urban tissue, respecting proportions and historical axes and throughways.

© Paul Ott
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MPREIS Kirchbichl

Tiroler Straße 16, 6322 Kirchbichl, A
Architecture: Moser Kleon Architekten (2004) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours

Resulting from the grounds available and the town planning situation, the Kirchbichl MPREIS was constructed as an organic sweeping building. The mainly closed construction is illuminated indirectly from above; only the baguette-café enjoys an all-round open view. On the inside the curves influence the visible concrete shell; a suspended birch plywood ceiling the rooms atmosphere.

© Günter Kresser
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Kufstein State Music School

Krankenhausgasse 16, 6330 Kufstein, A
Architecture: riccione architekten (2003-2004) Builder-owner: Stadtgemeinde Kufstein Open to the public: partially In 2004 the building was awarded a "Distinction of the State of Tyrol for New Buildings” .

On a street corner of a densely built town area next to, at present, two vacant sites, riccione architects have built a solitary building with the possibility of future extensions. Above the ground floor, in which, apart from a lowered music hall, the town archive and the town library are accommodated, are three optically detached upper storeys for the school’s classrooms. Generously sized glazing and powder coated aluminium panels influence the building, which despite its transparency and openness, complies with all acoustic requirements.

© Martin Tusch
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Probebühnen des Tiroler Landestheaters (rehearsal stages)

Rennweg 2, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: karl+probst (2002-2003) Builder-owner: Tiroler Landestheater, Landesbaudirektion Tirol The square in front of the theatre was designed by Wich architects in cooperation with terra.nova landscape architects.

After long years of having to cope with a lack of working space, finally the rehearsal stages and workshops were transferred to an annex building. The various functions can easily be read from the outside as an addition of various different spatial structures, the piled-up units are obviously inviting future additions whenever necessary.

© Gerhard Hagen
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MPREIS Rum

Feldkreuzstraße 1, 6063 Rum, A
Architecture: reitter_architekten, Michael Pfleger (2003) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m, Saturday until 6 p.m. Accessibility: Follow the "Dorferstraße” road from Innsbruck to Hall, or take bus

The MPREIS supermarket is situated 3 m below road level, all one sees, when looking from the village center, is a hovering roof, because the mass of the market building and entrance area is nestling against a slight turn of the road. A café, a terrace and a children’s playground, and additional spaces for various other shops make sure this supermarket serves as a village meeting point where people can do more than just their everyday shopping.

© Günter R. Wett
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Parkhotel (the former Seeber tower hotel)

Thurnfeldgasse 1a, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Henke Schreieck Architekten (2002-2003) Builder-owner: Stadtwerke Hall Open to the public: yes Accessibility: from Innsbruck, with bus S or 4 The adjoining spa was built, in 1930/31, by Hans Illmer, the surrounding park was re-designed, in 2004, by Maria Auböck and János Kárász.

Next to the former Seeber tower hotel designed, in the Thirties, by Lois Welzenbacher, the architects placed a second solitaire whose shape, materials and colours boldly contrast with the older building. The Welzenbacher building, a white angular cube with balconies whose situation and shape suggest a circular movement, was beautifully retrofitted, and can now enter into an exciting dialogue with the new conical glass tower. At their base, the towers are linked by a building containing the lobby as well as a café and restaurant.

© Margherita Spiluttini
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Münze Hall (Hall Mint)

Burg Hasegg 6, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Benedikt Gratl (2003) Open to the public: in summer, Tuesday – Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in winter Tuesday – Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Accessibility: Accessible, from Innsbruck, with bus S or 4 In the museum you can mint your own souvenir coin.

Hasegg Castle with the twelve-angle mint tower is the landmark of the town of Hall. Originally, it dates back to the 13th century, but had undergone rather chaotic growth over the centuries. With a few very intelligent and respectful interventions, it was possible to implant a museum. A "must see” is the historic mint tower with its two staircases which you now can enter using a new sculptural steel spiral staircase.

© Arno Gisinger
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Hotel Lux Alpinae

Arlbergstraße 41, 6580 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: driendl*architects (2003) Builder-owner: Sabine Kertess, Alexander Kertess TIP: The hotel has its own climbing wall between the building and slope.

For many years the steep south slope next to the road leading to the Arlberg Pass was considered as being unsuitable for development. To realise the "Lux Alpinae” construction, the slope was dug out three storeys deep, a two-part building was constructed close to the slope. The rooms, accessible via a loggia landing, have room-high glass fronts and protruding balconies facing towards the south. Finally, a curved shell roof gives the glass, steel and exposed concrete hotel building a dynamic look.

© Thomas Jantscher
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Strandsatelliten Housing Complex

Reichenauerstraße 97, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: driendl*architects (2001-2003) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol Open to the public: partially Located directly adjacent are a housing complex and a senior citizens’ home, executed in 1999 by Otto Steidle and Bernd Jungbauer.

Arising from a competition, the housing development set new standards in social housing at the time of its construction. Despite the high density, Georg Driendl succeeded in creating a permeable housing development with high atmospheric quality on a narrow parcel on the banks of the Inn. A total of 120 apartments are placed in three six-story structures, whose visual appearance is characterized by rear-ventilated glass façades and the colorful glass skin of the balconies.

© James H. Morris
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MPREIS Wattens II

Bahnhofstraße 23, 6111 Wattens, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault (2002-2003) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours

Dominique Perrault was the first architect not resident in Tyrol to be entrusted with the setting up of, in the meantime, three supermarkets by MPREIS, two in Wattens and one in Zirl. The SuperM on the main road to Wattens is situated in the middle of a heterogeneous built-up-area. Perrault reacted to this with a materiality and constructively light and open building with a yard type recess, which together with the small protruding square, forms an urban centre.

© Günter R. Wett
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Cultural and Fire Brigade House

Dorf 88, 9961 Hopfgarten in Defereggen, A
Architecture: Machné & Durig (2001-2003) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Hopfgarten The village hall and square were redesigned from 2006 to 2008 (planning: Hans-Peter Machné)

The starting point for the project was the inn that was missing in the village—what followed was a new town policy, which was awarded with the "Building Culture Community Prize” in 2012. The founding of a village renewal commission preceded the construction of the new multipurpose structure. A competition was consequently tendered with Dorferneuerung Tirol (Village Renewal Tyrol). The result is a crystalline structure, conceived in reaction to the exposed slope, with the fire brigade together with a practice forecourt in the lower area and the public functions, including the large event hall, in the overlying element that protrudes eight meters outwards.

© Paul Ott
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Bundesschulzentrum Wörgl (Federal School Centre)

Innsbruckerstraße 34, 6300 Wörgl, A
Architecture: Peter Märkli, Gody Kühnis (2001-2003) Builder-owner: BIG Open to the public: partially

In 1973, Viktor Hufnagl, an architect from Vienna, constructed a hall-school, which at the time was a revolutionary concept, hence, an experimental building for the prefabrication of schools. Due to problems with the building’s structural design it was necessary to redevelop the school complex. The redevelopment carried out by Peter Märkli and Gody Kühnis preserves the old building’s room and material qualities, reinterprets its character and modifies it with use of contemporary means.

© Günter R. Wett
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Café Weinbar Lounge 360°

Maria-Theresien-Straße 18, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault (2002) Open to the public: Mo-Sa 10 a.m,-1 a.m. Accessibility: Elevator from the central crossing of the City Hall mall to the top floor

Here, Dominique Perrault, architect of the new City Hall and mall, created a public space over the roofs of the city. With glass walls all around, nothing interferes with the perfect view over the roofs and cupolas of the city centre, over old and new towers, to the mountain tops. Not an everyday sight, but a place to rest for a while.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Restaurant Solo Pasta + Solo Vino

Universitätsstrasse 15b, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Giner + Wucherer (2000-2002) Builder-owner: Giovanni Guiseppe Conte Open to the public: "Solo Pasta” is open Tue-Sat 10 a.m.-1 a.m., "Solo Vino” Tue-Sat 11 a.m.-1 a.m.

On the SOWI campus the "Solo Pasta” restaurant and then the "Solo Vino” n. 1 und 2 wine bars opened in rapid succession one after another. All three are characterised by a minimalist and everything but Zeitgeist-minded design making use of few and sensitively tuned materials. Customers can freely walk from one to the other rooms. Following a change in ownership, there has been some refurbishment not quite in line with the original concept

© Günter R. Wett
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Hoadlhaus – Mountain Restaurant

Axamer Lizum 7, 6094 Axams, A
Architecture: Klaus Mathoy (2002) Builder-owner: Axamer Lizum Aufschließungs AG Accessibility: directly next to the Olympic railway mountain station The mountain restaurant was awarded a prize at the 2009 ISR Architecture Awards.

The Hoadlhaus panorama-restaurant in the Axamer Lizum is a steel and glass construction offering a 360° view. The façade facing towards the south consists of seven large glass roll-up doors, which can be completely drawn into the roof’s wooden dropped ceiling. If the weather is fine the mountain restaurant’s conservatory can be transformed into a huge sun terrace.

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Hotel "The Penz"

Adolf-Pichler-Platz 3, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault, RPM Architekten, ATP architekten ingenieure, Jiszda & Partner (2002) Builder-owner: Sporthotel Penz 2 GesmbH TIP: Not only hotel guests are able to enjoy "the 5th floor" atmosphere.

The Penz design-hotel with its interior design by the Vienne office Jiszda & Partner, forms the northwest completion of the Town Hall area planned by Dominique Perrault. The completely glazed north façade provides the rooms with a lovely panorama view; from the outside the dark glass reflects the images of the buildings around the square. A restaurant with an American bar and terrace can be found on the completely glazed top floor.

© B&R
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MPREIS Wörgl Ost

Salzburger Straße 29, 6300 Wörgl, A
Architecture: Tatanka (2002) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours Accessibility: East of the town centre on the motorway approach road.

At the east border of Wörgl in an almost American "strip-situation” is one of Tyrol’s largest MPREIS supermarkets. In the heterogeneous (still growing) development area, Pöschl placed a bridge type building on five cylinders at right angles to the road. On the west side of the building a concave screen shade reaches out from the protruding roof across almost the complete height of the building. The space in between provides room for the fitness centre on the top floor.

© Paul Ott
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Bergisel Ski Jump

Bergisel, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Zaha Hadid Architects (2001-2002) Builder-owner: Austria Ski Veranstaltungs GesmbH Open to the public: daily 10 a.m.–5 p.m, in the summer until 6 p.m.; there is an entrance fee. Accessibility: Tram number 1, and 20 minutes’ walk from the final station – or the Sightseer bus from the city centre TIP: Viewing platform and the "Café im Turm” restaurant on top of the approach tower

The new Bergisel ski jump is a landmark that is visible from most every part of town. The various functional elements, while still perfectly and precisely serving their purpose as mere instruments of sports competition, were moulded into an elegantly sculptural and expressively dynamic construction symbolising the ski jumper’s movement.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Rathausgalerien – City Hall and shopping mall

Maria-Theresien-Straße 18, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault, ATP architekten ingenieure, RPM Architekten (1999-2002) Builder-owner: Rathauspassage GmbH Open to the public: Sun-Thu 7 a.m. to midnight; Fri, Sat 7 a.m.–2. a.m. (Mall) TIP: Take the elevator up the "City Hall Campanile” tower for the view from the "360°” café or the "Lichtblick” restaurant on the 7th floor, or go the "5th Floor” bar of the adjacent "The Penz” hotel.

What formerly used to be just a parking lot in the back of the old City Hall now has become an exciting mix of heterogeneous functions: city administration, city council, shopping mall, a hotel and various restaurants and cafés. Intelligently graded heights, a glass roof for the mall, plus a central "Campanile” – these are the main characteristics of an unpretentious and still very outspoken ensemble that easily and fluently manages to integrate the pre-existing older buildings and to connect to the cityscape around it.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Medizinzentrum Anichstraße (New medical centre)

Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Paul Katzberger, Karin Bily, Michael Loudon (1998-2001) Builder-owner: TILAK Open to the public: interior courtyard

The State Hospital and University Clinics, on the western fringe of the city centre – originally built towards the end of the 19th century on what was then an empty lot on the outskirts of town – is a "city within the city”. The medical centre on Anichstraße replaced the former gynaecological and ophthalmic wards, the architects organized 40.000 cubic meters in six storeys, around two spacious interior courtyards, so as to give a new spatial order to what was a rather heterogeneous neighbourhood. The intuitively self-explanatory organization of the various units manages to create an air of cosy and calm "wellness”, closer to a hotel than to traditional technology-ridden medical treatment.

© Günter R. Wett
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DOZ – Dorfzentrum (Village Centre)

Dorf 87, 6521 Fließ, A
Architecture: AllesWirdGut (2000-2001) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Fliess Open to the public: partially TIP: Archaeological Documentation Centre Via Claudia Augusta in the village centre.

At a sensitive building plot very close to the church, cemetery and vicarage, the village centre forms, due to its independent architectural "language”, a new profane centre. The angular crystalline free-standing building, with its shape being determined by height, spacing regulations and mix of functions, contains variable and combinable open rooms at staggered levels – among others the tourist information office and a café.

© Hertha Hurnaus
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"Villa Rasilla" – Holiday Home

Lourdes 15, 6534 Serfaus, A
Architecture: Noldin & Noldin (2001) Builder-owner: Philipp Schwarz

At the east border of Serfaus is Villa Rasilla – The name stems from a Rhaeto-Romanic term for field name – a holiday home designed by Noldin & Noldin. The two ground floor levels with the wellness-sauna-area, the bedrooms and bathrooms, have been built as a masonry wall construction; the top floor has been added as a self-supporting wooden cube with a wide and protruding partially roofed terrace.

© Günter R. Wett
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St. Anton Railway Station

Bahnhofstraße 6, 6850 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: Manzl Ritsch Sandner (1999-2001) Builder-owner: ÖBB The centre of the village can be reached directly via a footbridge.

The double lane expansion of the Arlberg tunnel carried out in 1998 provided the chance to demolish the old railway station originally in the middle of the village and build a new one on the south side of the valley. The design, emerging from a Europe-wide contest, is a new interpretation of the "Railway Station”. The actual station building is not a solitary building away from the railway lines, but a part of the landscape designing process.

© Günter R. Wett
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ARLBERG-well.com

Hannes-Schneider-Weg 11, 6850 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: Dietrich | Untertrifaller (1999-2001) Builder-owner: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG, Gemeinde St. Anton, Tourismusverband St. Anton Open to the public: during hours of operation (subject to a charge)
TIP: Restaurant "ben.venuto"

As part of the 2001 Alpine Skiing World Championships, Dietrich Untertrifaller completed the wellness and leisure centre, which during the championships served as a medical centre. The majority of its volume is embedded in the slope, the flat greened roof blends in with the surrounding area. From the slope one only sees three small "barn-like” structures and the 2000m2 large hall’s skylights at a right angle to the slope.

© Bruno Klomfar
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BSA Sports Hall - Alpine 2001 Ski-World Championships

St. Christoph 28, 6850 St. Christoph, A
Architecture: LORENZATELIERS (2000-2001) Builder-owner: Austria Ski Sportanlagen

In the centre of St. Christoph, the ÖSV (Austrian Skiing Association) built a sports hall (for the 2001 World Skiing Championships) with a fitness centre, a bar and offices for the association’s staff. A low budget solution based on minimalism was realised within a short time. The "self-confident” building is situated close to the ensemble around the "Hospiz”, which dates as far back as the Middle Ages.

© Günter R. Wett
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Jochdohle

Stubaier Gletscher – Höhe 3150 m, 6167 Neustift im Stubaital, A
Architecture: Peter Kaserer (2000-2001) Builder-owner: Stubaier Bergbahnen KG, Wintersport Tirol Open to the public: Via the cable lift services Eisgrat I, Eisgrat II and Schaufeljoch to the Schaufeljoch mountain station then approx. five minutes walk. Accessibility: all year round during hours of operation TIP: "Stubaier Gletscherpfad” (Stubaier Glacier Path) from the Eisgrat mountain station up to the Jochdohle (250 metres elevation, approx. one hour walk).

The "Jochdohle” is Austria’s highest altitude mountain restaurant (3150 metres). Sitting on a small rock ledge and secured to the rock face is a three storey steel tower, which serves as a structural and functional "backbone”. Steel girders are fixed to the tower in a radial manner. During the summer the round silver shimmering building hovers above the glacier; in winter it sinks into the fresh snow.

© Peter Kaserer
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MPREIS on the Sill

Erzherzog-Eugen-Straße 41, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Wolfgang Pöschl, Joseph Bleser (2001) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during shop opening hours

A large supermarket with sufficient parking space had to be situated on a relatively cramped lot in the middle of the urban fabric. Wolfgang Pöschl and Josef Bleser reacted to the difficult requirements by letting the slightly slanting sales area float above the parking level recessed halfway into the terrain and to bring the mountains as well as the riverbank landscape closer to the customer by means of subtly placed openings. Integrated in the market is a café, which has taken over an important communicative and social function as a type of neighborhood center.

© B&R
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MPREIS and Canteen Jenbach

Schießstandstrasse 1, 6200 Jenbach, A
Architecture: reitter_architekten, Michael Pfleger (2001) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours

A new type of supermarket was developed for two promoters, Jenbacher Werke (canteen) and MPREIS (supermarket): With the historic fish market in Venice as an example, a new type of roofed market under a large elevated building, in which the canteen for 300 persons, a casino, a kitchen, a works doctor and a large south terrace for the Jenbacher Werke are accommodated.

© Günter R. Wett
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FH Kufstein – University of Applied Sciences

Andreas-Hofer-Straße 7, 6330 Kufstein, A
Architecture: Henke Schreieck Architekten (2000-2001) Builder-owner: FH- Errichtungs- und Betriebs GmbH. Open to the public: partially (Assembly Hall and Cafeteria)

A first impulse for the development of the inner city was the relocation of the university from the outskirts of town to the centre of Kufstein. Henke and Schreieck designed the "Möbel im Park” (furniture in the park), a cubic building with a glass outer surface structured with wooden slats. The energetic and innovative double layer façade with integrated room ventilation is a feast for the eyes of the studying (future) "Facility Managers”.

© Margherita Spiluttini
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MPREIS, Vital Centre and Lantech Innovation Centre

Bruggfeldstraße 5, 6500 Landeck, A
Architecture: Johann Obermoser (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Lantech InnovationsgmbH Open to the public: partially The extension for a business and university building was realized in 2017 by VENTIRAARCHITEKTEN.

Situated on the grounds of a former industrial area close to the town centre is Johann Obermoser’s "trade park” with a number of, in structure and façade, differing buildings: A long stretched out building parallel to the trunk road with an MPREIS supermarket on the ground floor and offices on the protruding top floor. In addition to these, a square pavilion to the south with the "Vital Centre” and, at the end, very close to the slope the five storey high "Lantech” innovation centre.

© Günter R. Wett
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Wohnen am Lohbach (Living next to the Lohbach stream)

Franz-Baumann-Weg 12, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Baumschlager Eberle, Gerhard Zweier (1998-2000) Builder-owner: Neue Heimat Tirol Accessibility: Situated at the western end of Franz-Baumann-Weg, a short walk from one of 2 stops of bus "O” (Luis-Zuegg-Straße or Technik West) Artworks by Heinz Gappmayr, Peter Kogler, Eva Schlegl, Elisabeth Hölzl, Heimo Zobernig

This new quarter is the westernmost part of the city, closing off the residential area towards a zone reserved for agricultural use. With over 300 apartments, at the time it was built it was Austria’s largest low-energy housing project. The master plan was designed by the Vorarlberg architects Carlo Baumschlager and Dietmar Eberle; it consists of six very compact single buildings staggered, as it were, on a chessboard, creating a multitude of views and perspectives into the surrounding landscape that defy the high density.

© Nikolaus Schletterer
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Dolmetsch-Institut und Mensa der Universität Innsbruck(University of Innsbruck school of translators and cafeteria)

Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 15, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: Josef Lackner (1998-2000) Builder-owner: UNI Innsbruck Open to the public: Partly

To the adjacent building south of this one, Lackner (1995-96) added a "crown”, the Brenner archive, thus substantially redefining both its shape and identity.

In order to only minimally disturb services at the pre-existing university cafeteria and to make optimal use of the available building area, Lackner sort of built a bridge over the cafeteria. Glazed steel frames in brilliant orange stretch over the old building that was also given a brush-up in the process. Receding terraces contain seminar rooms and the library of the school of translators, transforming the old cafeteria building into a "city balcony” next to the river.

© Christof Lackner
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Kartonagenfabrik Dinkhauser (packaging materials factory)

Josef-Dinkhauser-Straße 1-2, 6060 Hall in Tirol, A
Architecture: Josef Lackner (2000) Builder-owner: Dinkhauser Kartonagen GmbH Accessibility: Close to the main road from Innsbruck to Hall The administration building (1995 – 1997) and the high-shelve storage area n. 2 (added 2003-2005) were designed by Lukas Schumacher.

For the Dinkhauser packaging materials corporation, Lackner realized one of his last works. The lot sort of had grown with the enterprise, reorganizing it was an essential part of the task. So he added a new high-shelve storage area with unsupported steel frames stretching over 25 m to an existing shop. Large prefabricated concrete elements and triangular glass panels are the dominant elements that masterfully catch the attention of passers-by.

© Christof Lackner
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Hotel Anton

Kandaharweg 4, 6850 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: Wolfgang Pöschl, Dieter Comploj (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Robert Falch

Due to the relocation of the railway lines, the family running the hotel had to close it down and relocate by opening a new hotel on the grounds of the old railway station. The hotel they built is a flexible useful house with rooms, which due to the sliding partitions, can be turned into completely functional apartments. The outside of the hotel is decorated with a wood-shingle-façade and large glazed areas; protruding alcoves in the rooms provide resting areas with a view across the mountains.

© Paul Ott
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Finish Line Stadium – 2001 Alpine Skiing World Championships

Sonnenwiese, 6850 St. Anton am Arlberg, A
Architecture: Manzl Ritsch Sandner (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG, Tourismusverband St. Anton, Gemeinde St. Anton

The finish line stadium constructed for the skiing world championships, were constructed by the same architectural-team that built the new St. Anton railway station. The tranquil wood-panel covered building is intertwined with the surrounding terrain in such a way, that the finish line stadium seems to be more of a topographic intervention than a building. With its many seminar rooms and fixed stand for 2000 persons, the finish line stadium is the perfect place for various outdoor events.

© Manzl Ritsch Sandner
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Mountain Restaurant / Mountain Station Horberg Lift

Horberg 412, 6260 Schwendau, A
Architecture: Michael Pfleger, reitter_architekten (2000) Builder-owner: Mayrhofner Bergbahnen AG Open to the public: during hours of operation Accessibility: Valley station in Schwendau BTV (Bank for Tyrol and Vorarlberg) - 2001 Building-Owner-Awards-Tyrol, recognition category "Building for Guests”

The structure of the Horberg lift mountain station at an altitude of 1700 metres dates back to the 1960s. Originally, it was intended that only the lift hall’s restaurant area on the ground floor was to be extended. However, the architects developed a new and extensive concept improving both the functional procedures and the architectural qualities. A characteristic element is the glazed roof at the front end of the building and the hall, which as a spatial gesture has been extended by two bays.

© Günter R. Wett
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Goldried I – Valley Station

Europastraße 5, 9971 Matrei, A
Architecture: Gerhard Mitterberger (1998-2000) Builder-owner: Thomas Ganzer, Marktgemeinde Matrei, Martin Wibmer, Lukas Resinger Open to the public: during hours of operation Accessibility: directly on the Felbertauernstraße Opposite the valley station is an MPREIS designed by Machné & Durig in 2004.

The Goldried lift valley station situated on the outskirts of Matrei i. O. provides various service facilities, the Tauern Stadium built shortly later by Gerhard Mitterberger provides a centre. The main idea during planning was to creatively integrate the infrastructure for tourism, including the large parking spaces, into the alpine surroundings. The service building for skiing schools and ski-hire and, the cable car stations themselves, were all built of simple industrial materials and designed to fit the requirements of mass tourism.

© Zita Oberwalder
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Glocknerhaus

Ködnitz 7, 9981 Kals am Großglockner, A
Architecture: Schneider & Lengauer (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Gemeinde Kals, TVB Kals, Nationalparkverwaltung Tirol, Raiffeisenbank Matrei Open to the public: partially (exhibition only in the summer months) TIP: The exhibition space is in the basement and several rooms are devoted to the theme "Under the Spell of the Großglockner Mountain.”

The revitalization of the village center began in the small community of Kals am Großglockner with the Glocknerhaus, which houses the Hohe Tauern National Park administration, the Kals Tourism Association and a branch bank. A plain structure that follows the course of the road was erected; its scale and color scheme refer to the late Gothic rectory and the parish church and thereby creates a harmonious ensemble of old and new.

© Klaus Costadedoi
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MPREIS Wattens I

Salzburger Straße 30, 6112 Wattens, A
Architecture: Dominique Perrault (2000) Builder-owner: MPREIS Open to the public: during opening hours Today’s internationally operating family business was founded by Daniel Swarovski in1895 in Wattens.

Dominique Perrault set up his first MPREIS opposite Swarovski Kristallwelten, which was designed by André Heller – a solitary building based on minimalism with an opaque shimmering glass façade. A biomorphic scaffolding surrounding nine pines permeates the rectangular building allowing the border between the inside and outside to merge where visible truss-girders, OSB boards and black floor slabs create a market hall atmosphere.

© Günter R. Wett
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Central Transformer Station

Salurnerstraße 11, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: UNStudio (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe AG Open to the public: no Next to the transformer station there is Innsbruck’s first high-rise building, designed by Lois Welzenbacher in 1926/27.

For the Amsterdam UN Studio (Ben van Berkel and Caroline Boss), this was the first international competition they won. The sculpturally carved building boasts an outer skin of black basalt, rising out of an environment of blackened concrete. The interior is, of course, not open to the public, it hosts the transformers and the control centre that are part of the essential infrastructure of the city.

© Nikolaus Schletterer