📋 Tender Overview
City of Vienna presents 27 new exemplary high-quality architectural projects that were completed in the last year. As part of the initiative architects and planners were called upon to submit new buildings extensions and conversions in Viennas urban area which were realized on private land. Sustainability climate protection The focus is on the external appearance and the effect of the building in the urban space. In the fight against climate change and the heat the City of Vienna relies on innovative building projects that architecturally consider climate change in the planning. Climate change and adaptation to climate change also pose a challenge to the architecture of the city. Together with the planners and architects the Department of Architecture and Urban Design faces these challenges with the aim of providing the best solutions for all residents of the city says Head of Department Franz Kobermaier. That is why projects that provide a lot of green shading and cooling water are presented in particular.In order to avoid urban heat islands architects and property developers should be encouraged to rely more on building greening shading and water spray systems as creative and cooling measures in future projects. For the built 2020 architecture award groundbreaking stimulating and exemplary solutions were selected that also contribute to social sustainability and climate protection. The award-winning projects will be published on the website of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design MA 19 and will also be shown for one year in the exhibition of the same name in the departments premises and shown in the publication built 20202025.
