Zechner & Zechner Create a Mixed-Use Complex Beside Peter Behrens' Modernist Icon
Viennese firm Zechner & Zechner has been announced as the winners of the competition for the new landmark complex NeuBau3?a mixed-use district at Peter-Behrens-Platz in Linz, Austria?after a unanimous decision by the jury. The proposed structure will complete the existing site of German architect and designer Peter Behrens' modernist Tabakfabrik Linz, a tobacco factory built between 1929 and 1935.
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Viennese firm Zechner & Zechner has been announced as the winners of the competition for the new landmark complex NeuBau3?a mixed-use district at Peter-Behrens-Platz in Linz, Austria?after a unanimous decision by the jury. The proposed structure will complete the existing site of German architect and designer Peter Behrens' modernist Tabakfabrik Linz, a tobacco factory built between 1929 and 1935.
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While Behrens is noted for mentoring modernist icons from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe to Walter Gropius in the early 1900s, his highly original industrial facility and tobacco factory designed with Alexander Popp is equally significant. Built in a style touted as New Objectivity, Behrens' Tabakfabrik Linz is considered the first steel frame building in Austria and a ?radical functionalist masterpiece.?
Courtesy of Zechner & Zechner
Due to the site?s role in the city?s fabric as well as architectural importance, the competition brief asked for...
Courtesy of Zechner & Zechner
Viennese firm Zechner & Zechner has been announced as the winners of the competition for the new landmark complex NeuBau3?a mixed-use district at Peter-Behrens-Platz in Linz, Austria?after a unanimous decision by the jury. The proposed structure will complete the existing site of German architect and designer Peter Behrens' modernist Tabakfabrik Linz, a tobacco factory built between 1929 and 1935.
Courtesy of Zechner & Zechner
While Behrens is noted for mentoring modernist icons from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe to Walter Gropius in the early 1900s, his highly original industrial facility and tobacco factory designed with Alexander Popp is equally significant. Built in a style touted as New Objectivity, Behrens' Tabakfabrik Linz is considered the first steel frame building in Austria and a ?radical functionalist masterpiece.?
Courtesy of Zechner & Zechner
Due to the site?s role in the city?s fabric as well as architectural importance, the competition brief asked for...
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