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144 PHILIPS HAUS BY KARL SCHWANZER Year 1963 Status Modified Material Plaster Scale 1:200 Model maker Lung Peng The Philips Haus was built from 1962 to 1963 at Triester Strasse 64 in the 10th district of Vienna. Karl Schwanzer designed the building as an office block for the multinational technology company Philips.1 The building is situated on top of a hill, the Wienerberg, close to the southern highway entrance to Vienna. There were no buildings surrounding it up until the 90s, and so it was easily visible from afar. The building is made of reinforced concrete. As was state of the arts at the time, the structural elements of the building are visible from the outside. Originally designed as open-plan offices, the top structure cantilevers out on both sides. A lower structure, perpendicular to and underneath the higher structure, contained the flagship store and additional training rooms.2 In 2018, the architect Joseph Weichenberger renovated the Philips building, and it was reopened as a full-service apartment block with a restaurant and a marketplace underneath it.3 1 Architekturzentrum Wien (Ed.) (2016): Architektur in Österreich im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Zürich: Park Books. 159. 2 Achleitner, Friedrich (1990): Österreichische Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein Führer in vier Bänden. Band III/1 Wien: 1.-12. Bezirk. Salzburg, Wien: Residenz Verlag. 255. 3 Philips-Haus. Ein Vorsorge-Regal am Wienerberg. https://derstandard.at/2000082950718/Philips-Haus-Ein-Vorsorge-Regal-am- Wienerberg. 14.8.2018.