Hotel Topazz

Vienna, Austria
Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer

The new Topazz design hotel can be likened to a glistening, dark-colored gemstone. Its brown mosaic façade, which absorbs and reflects the natural light, ensures that this building – on one of Vienna’s smallest building sites – is a real eye-catcher. The design is characterized by striking elliptical window openings that jut out slightly. This unconventional, distinctive treatment of the façade gives this round-cornered building a sense of weightlessness and elegance as well as an unusually physical presence within the fabric of Vienna’s historical architecture.

Photo © Lenikus / Anna Blau
Photo © BWM Architekten
Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer
Photo © Gerhard Trumler
Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer
Architects
BWM Designers & Architects
Year
2012
Project Status
Built
Client
Lenikus GmbH
Team
Ferdinand Bischofter, Alexandra Stage, Judith Moser, Peter Foschi, Hubert Meyer, Egon Niedertscheider
Architektur
BWM Architekten und Michael Manzenreiter Architectur
Design Facade
BWM Architekten
Floorplans Interior Architecture
Michael Manzenreiter Architecture

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