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.
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.
