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The Looshaus was a pioneering reinforced concrete building in Vienna; this form of construction made possible large interior spaces and rational grouping of the manufacturing and sales areas, and Loos also used varied ceiling heights to save space. The street-level salesroom was divided by four interior columns into distinct areas, and had oval ...
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Elizabeth Frederika van den Ban, known as Elze, (18 October 1894 - 25 December 1973) [1] [2] was a Dutch urban planner and chief engineer of the Rijkswaterstaat (Department of Public Works) at Zuiderzee Works where she introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into the urban planning process of polders and dikes. [3]
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From 1904 on, he was able to carry out big projects; the most notable was the so-called "Looshaus" (built from 1910 to 1912), originally for the Viennese tailor Goldman and Salatsch, for whom Loos had designed a store interior in 1898, and situated right across from the Habsburg city residence Hofburg Palace. The house, today located at the ...
These included the Looshaus, the American Bar, and the Steiner House, among others. The Looshaus in Vienna (also known as the Goldman & Salatsch Building) marks the rejection of historicism, as well as the ornaments used by the Wiener Secession. Adolf Loos received the assignment in 1909, and the building was finished in 1910.