City Elephant District Block in Vienna
- Sandra Hofmeister
The seven-storey exposed-concrete structure in the Sonnwend district of Vienna is distinguished by its diverse functions, with offices, jointly used public spaces and dwellings. This combination of uses was made possible by the initiative of a commercial construction group, consisting of three architectural offices working together on a friendly basis and two professionally related firms. Together they developed this sturdy district block on a residual site close to the railway lines, financing, planning and erecting it in a cooperative process. Today, they use the house together with the Austrian Architecture Foundation and the architecture in progress association, who are tenants in the “coworking space” on the ground floor.
