From Architects
with Love

City quarter building & architecture cluster in Sonnwendviertel, Vienna

Together not everyone for themselves! A shared house, a creative cluster, a place for working, thinking, and networking – and all this right in the middle of the city. A pioneering project: We designed, developed, financed, and built our office building in the Sonnwendviertel ourselves under the umbrella of a limited liability company (GmbH).

Details

Photography

Andreas Buchberger,
Franz&Sue/Louai Abdul Fattah

Client

Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 23 Real GmbH

State

Completed

Net Usable Floor Area

3.150 m²

Building Costs

4,7 Mio. €

Awards

Bauherrenpreis 2019, AIT-Award für Mixed Use 2020, best architects 21

We love to explore new and unusual paths. Working together as equals and maintaining an intensive exchange of knowledge with others is – we are sure of that – beneficial to all. We live this philosophy at Franz&Sue, in the ‘fight club’ and in our voluntary work in various architectural institutions. Several of our projects are developed in cross-practice working groups even today. Thus, we realised a project that’s very close to our hearts together with friends and colleagues: Stadtelefant (city elephant) near Helmut Zilk Park. A creative cluster in one of the most exciting development areas with a public cafeteria and a shared meeting and event room. For discussions, networking and cross-practice projects. Our house is a pioneering project – it is the only building in this primarily residential area where working spaces are on all storeys.

»A creative place to work, think and connect in the middle of the city.«

Under one roof

»We believe that together we are stronger and life is easier.« Therefore, we developed, designed and built our office building right next to Vienna’s Central Station as a limited liability company (GmbH). It includes our architect friends from SOLID and PLOV as well as companies from related sectors such as A-NULL Bausoftware (construction software) and Hoyer Brandschutz (fire safety).

»Expert knowledge is concentrated across the various floors of our house!«

A perfect opportunity

Communication is crucial for us – good work and, most importantly, a good life are not possible without it. Franz&Sue have always had fresh meals cooked for the team every day: a perfect opportunity to get together, to talk and to celebrate.

There is much room for all that in our new building, too: 100m2 on the ground floor. The public cafeteria is run by Mimi im Stadtelefant, we use it as our in-house canteen. This communal place is used as a space for discussions, informal events and meetings. Furthermore people living and working in the neighbourhood as well as members of Vienna’s architectural scene are invited to drop in and be ‘our’ guests. From architects with love, may community life flourish!

»Let’s drop in for a coffee at the architects’ place!«

Click here for our collective website: stadtelefant.at.

Floor plan Ground floor - Cafeteria

Floor plan Upper floor 1 - Office

Floor plan Upper floor 6 - Living

Index/Count
Type Of Commission

EU-weit offener, zweistufiger Wettbewerb

Client

Bloch-Bauer-Promenade 23 Real GmbH

Construction

2017–2018

Gross Floor Area

3.750 m²

Scope Of Commission

Generalplanung

Location

Wien

State

Completed

Building Costs

4,7 Mio. €

Design

2016–2017

Net Usable Floor Area

3.150 m²

Team

Joseph Suntinger (PL), Norbert Peller, Jonathan Hering, Karin Brandstötter, Philipp Stromer, Wolfgang Fischer, Carla Kuhn, Simon Frey, Caro Berger, Ajdin Vukovic

Awards

Bauherrenpreis 2019, AIT-Award für Mixed Use 2020, best architects 21

Structural Engineer

Petz

Building Physics

Schöberl & Pöll

Building Services

BPS Engineering

Lighting Design

Regent, Prolicht

Fire Safety Planning

Hoyer Brandschutz

Site Supervision

A Quadrat Ziviltechniker

Photography

Andreas Buchberger,

Franz&Sue/Louai Abdul Fattah

Building Contractor

Alfred Trepka