Author - Beate Bartlmä

For the duration of the refurbishment of the Austrian Parliament building, three temporary replacement buildings were erected on Heldenplatz and in the Library Courtyard of the Hofburg Palace as alternative quarters. After completion in April 2017 and the subsequent move out of the Parliament, everyday parliamentary work took place in the alternative quarters from summer 2017 onwards.

Every year KÖR invites an artist to develop a temporary work for Vienna's Graben - this year the Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu. The installation Chará, a five-meter-high sculpture, will be on display at artplace Graben in downtown Vienna from August 16th to November 8th, 2023. Artist: Kris Lemsalu Structural and architectural support: werkraum ingenieure

"A hotel near Vienna is standing empty, threatened with dilapidation. At the same time, the charitable Vinzi community is always on the search for new space for people for whom life has not been a good match. Why not turn a hotel into a place for the formerly homeless to live and work? Good idea, everyone involved thought." OHW The VinziRast in the countryside project will participate at Open House Vienna on September 9th and 10th, 2023. Architecture: gaupenraub +/- Structural design: werkraum ingenieure

The new, walkable and green stage in the main courtyard of the MQ in Vienna brings nature into the urban environment and is one of the measures for a climate-friendly Museumsquartier. Until the end of September, the urban garden and a meadow with tall grass will be available for everyone to relax. In the evenings, the stage will host a variety of event formats, including courtyard music concerts, artist talks, performances, discussions and lectures. Architecture: OpenFields Landscape architecture: D\D Structural design: werkraum ingenieure

The conversion of the listed foundry hall in Ingolstadt into the Museum of Concrete Art and Design, the MKKD, is taking visible shape. The targeted completion date of the end of 2024 directs our gaze joyfully towards an opening of the museum in 2025. Architecture: querkraft architekten

With the project VinziRast am Land, a former hotel and restaurant with an impressively large usable area of 3,500m² was transformed into a farm with permaculture agriculture for fruit and vegetable cultivation and small animal husbandry. Architecture: gaupenraub +/- Structural design: werkraum ingenieure

The 2023 Architecture Prize of the Province of Styria went this year to the 'Steirereck am Pogusch' project. Following a public call for entries by the House of Architecture (HDA) in Graz, the province of Styria awarded the prize to promote and recognize exemplary achievements in the field of architecture. Architecture: PPAG architects Structural design: werkraum ingenieure

The construction progress of the extension of the BORA Campus in Niederndorf in Tyrol is already a respectable one. The new five-story office building of BORA am Inn complements the existing buildings in an excellent way and will create a company campus with short distances in the future. Architecture: LORENZATELIERS Structural design: werkraum ingenieure

The shell of the future School Campus in Ellbögen, not far from the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck, is taking visible shape. The School Campus is scheduled to open as early as this autumn 2023. The architectural studio fasch&fuchs.architekten won the 1st prize in the 2021 realisation competition. werkraum ingenieure are collaborating - from the very beginning of the competition - on the Ellbögen education campus as structural engineers.

Due to increasing span widths, the special vibration behavior of pure timber structures and high sound insulation requirements, the demand and the use of timber-concrete composite floors, the HBV-constructions, is increasing enormously. werkraum ingenieure have now created a design program, which was missing on the market until now and which complies with the new ONR CEN/TS 19103. Thus, from now on we can competently support our project partners in the implementation, planning and detailing of wood-concrete composite floors according to the new ONR CEN/TS 19103.