BTV
Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria
Architect
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Heinz Tesar
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Date Built
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Completion
2007
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Location
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Stadtforum 1 6020 Innsbruck
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Description
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The "www.nextroom.at"
website says of this building that, "...
The headquarters of the “Bank für
Tirol und Vorarlberg” in Innsbruck
is a complex urban building block
with a diversity of public
functions. A full building height
central hall accesses the adjacent
gallery and concert hall, an atrium
with water garden, and the bank’s
training centre. The impressive
space receives daylight via a large
window oriented towards the north.
This “light plough” enables people
to experience the view towards the
peaks of the Nordkette mountain
ridge, also within interior office
spaces. The exterior and interior
facades are given a rational
character via all-together
152 large-format and
nearly-square window frames made of
reinforced concrete ... ."
The bank's website points out that, "The
prestigious architecture has already won
several prestigious architectural
awards: the Austrian Building Award
2006, the award of the Land of Tyrol for
a new building, a nomination for the
European Architecture Prize 'Mies van
der Rohe Award' and a final place at the
Otto Wagner Urban Building Award 2007"
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