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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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The Rax is a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps on the border of the Austrian federal provinces of Lower Austria and Styria. Its highest peak is the Heukuppe (2,007 m). The Rax, together with the nearby Schneeberg , are a traditional mountaineering and mountain walking area, and are called the Wiener Hausberge ( Vienna 's local ...
Baron Captain Georg von Trapp was the patriarch of the von Trapp family. He was born in 1880 and served for 24 years in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, where he achieved the country’s highest award ...
The Rufer House at Schließmanngasse 11 in Vienna, was designed by architect Adolf Loos in 1922 for Josef Rufer and Marie Rufer. [1] It is considered to be the first example of Raumplan (literally spatial plan) style. Raumplan differs from its predecessor Free Plan style in its internal spatial organization. While not as well known as other ...
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.
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 ...
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]