Unbuilt Vienna
Unbuilt Vienna was the title of an exhibition held from December 10, 1999 to February 20, 2000 in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna (now the Wien Museum ) on specific, often well-developed and hotly discussed, but ultimately unrealized building projects in Vienna. Examples of such projects are:
Single projects
Infrastructure projects
- Numerous unexecuted variants of the city expansion as an alternative to the completed Ringstrasse in the 19th century.
- Multiple attempts to create a subway and a Vienna Central Station . (The subway construction did not take place until the 1970s, the main station was not completed until 2015.)
- Danube Canal , Belt and Wiental Autobahn (from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s - officially buried by Mayor Felix Slavik in a speech at Forum Alpbach in early September 1972 ).
- Highway-like extension of the Flötzersteig to the west entrance of Vienna (ultimately not realized after the controversial result of a referendum from March 16 to 18, 1980).
- Alwegbahn projects, for example above Mariahilfer Straße , or in connection with a stilt motorway in the western part of Wiener Gürtelstraße (in short: Belt). The Viennese Alwegbahn plans were discussed intensively from 1958 to 1962 and specifically championed by the Vienna city politician Felix Slavik .
- Larger projects for inner-city road tunnels (especially championed in the 1980s by Vice Mayor Hans Mayr , especially a belt tunnel, proposed by the Belt Commission in 1987).
Larger single buildings
- The never completed Kaiserforum project by Gottfried Semper and Karl Hasenauer (1869)
- Ludwig Baumann's plans for an "Olympion", an urban culture and sports center on the site of today's Wiener Konzerthaus (1890)
- Otto Wagner's various projects for a city museum on Karlsplatz and on the Schmelz (from 1902)
- Otto Wagner's projects for a new academy of fine arts on the Schmelz
- Otto Wagner's ready-to-implement project of the Hospital for Cancer Research
- Austrian Hall of Nations and Fame
- Various major construction projects from the Nazi era, such as a 330 m high Gauhalle and a viaduct-like elevated road on the Kahlenberg Franz Pöcher (1937–38)
- Office building next to the Palais Trautson (today a park), in 1956 (next to the Palais, temporary buildings were later built for international organizations, which were demolished from their definitive offices after completion)
- Thirty-story skyscraper on Laurenzerberg (1959)
- Bell tower instead of the demolished Florianikirche , winning project by Johann Staber as the result of a competition (1966)
- Planned IBM headquarters in place of the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1966), architect Karl Schwanzer
- The construction of a new building for the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna in the Währing observatory park , rejected in a referendum on May 26, 1973
- Construction of the Steinhof grounds by a large residential complex (not implemented after a negative result of a referendum in December 1981)
- Construction of an opera house in the Rossau barracks (suggested in December 1984 by Vice Mayor Hans Mayr )
- Winning project of the Vienna-Budapest World Exhibition planned for 1995 , architects Sepp Frank and Rudolf Zabrana (fell through referendum from May 14 to 16, 1991)
- The reading tower in the Vienna Museum Quarter, discussed since 1990 (architects Laurids Ortner , Manfred Wehdorn )
- The Wien Mitte high-rise project discussed from 1990 to 2003 , also planned by Laurids Ortner
- The tower and bar project at Mariahilfer Platzl by Coop Himmelblau , which was ventilated in the 1990s
- Various reconstruction plans for Viennese flak towers
literature
- Unbuilt Vienna, projects for the metropolis 1800–2000 . Catalog Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1999.
- Ernst Kurz: The urban development of the city of Vienna in relation to traffic . (Contributions to urban research, urban development and urban design, volume 6, Vienna City Administration, Urban Planning Business Group), Vienna 1981.
- Robert Schediwy: City images - reflections on the change in architecture and urbanism . Vienna 2005, p. 310ff.
- Rudolf Till: Viennese Projects and Utopias . Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-7141-6202-X .