Wien Mitte | Ortner & Ortner

The railway station Wien Mitte is seven minutes on foot from the historic centre of the city, Stephansplatz. The station itself is a hub for all important local transport lines. This is where the Wien Mitte Centre is to be created: a slab measuring 17 000 m² erected above the tracks on which the new centre is defined architecturally by an L-shaped glass block that, together with the existing market hall, forms an open U in the direction of Marxerbrücke. In the enclosed internal area two sculptural building volumes determine the appearance: the glass banana along the market hall and the ski boot, a hook-shaped high-rise that soars above the ensemble Wien Mitte.