In order to transfer the former headquarters of the Postal Bank, which since 1833 was located in the former monastery of the Dominican Order in 1903 he was called to contest a specific program for the new location in the Stubenviertel in George Coch PlVienna.
These modifications enabled him to achieve greater harmony between the horizontal line of the building and the horizontal rhythm of the windows, showing a great sense of integrity for the whole
The high arch structure of metal and glass on top was replaced by horizontal attics, wall and topped with balustrade. The draft Otto Wagner was definitely more suggestions carefully crafted all presented to the jury, was the only participant able to combine the vision of a new Postal Savings Bank with a new architecture, being an extremely rare event in the history of architecture a visionary project that match a client architecture and also visionaries, with the same content and objectives.ĭuring the following year to win the contest Wagner revised its original plans, with particular attention to the central part of the building facing the small square Georg Coch Platz. jurors individually examined projects between meetings and 3 The priority given to functions and construction criteria style assessments clear that modernity was gaining ground set. The competition is mainly notable for three reasons: 1 The jury took three consecutive days to evaluate projects, 2. The tender for the construction of the Post Office Savings Bank Imperial-Royal was an open and anonymous process carried out in February 1903 three meetings were necessary for the jury to decide the winner, winning the draft submitted by Wagner on the other 36.Ĭontrary to the tender specifications, Wagner took the corridors to be used by the Savings in your transactions, this is one of the reasons used by some of the architects of the jury as argument to reject the project, but was finally recognized as a functional improvement not previously considered by the representatives of the Postal Savings Bank. Drawing entered into the competition by Wagner
0 kommentar(er)
