Hotel Topazz

Vienna, Austria

Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer

Photo © Lenikus / Anna Blau

Photo © BWM Architekten

Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer

Photo © Gerhard Trumler

Photo © BWM Architekten / Christoph Panzer

Hotels + Hostels + Guest Houses

Architects: BWM Designers & Architects

Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2012
Client: Lenikus GmbH
Team: Ferdinand Bischofter, Alexandra Stage, Judith Moser, Peter Foschi, Hubert Meyer, Egon Niedertscheider
Architektur: BWM Architekten und Michael Manzenreiter Architectur
Design Facade: BWM Architekten
Floorplans Interior Architecture: Michael Manzenreiter Architecture

The new Topazz design hotel can be likened to a glistening, dark-colored gemstone. Its brown mosaic façade, which absorbs and reflects the natural light, ensures that this building – on one of Vienna’s smallest building sites – is a real eye-catcher. The design is characterized by striking elliptical window openings that jut out slightly. This unconventional, distinctive treatment of the façade gives this round-cornered building a sense of weightlessness and elegance as well as an unusually physical presence within the fabric of Vienna’s historical architecture.