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172 WIFI ST. PÖLTEN BY KARL SCHWANZER Year 1972 Status Demolished Material Concrete Scale 1:25 Model maker Lung Peng Karl Schwanzer was born in 1918 in Vienna. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. From 1946 to 1950, Karl Schwanzer was the assistant of Oswald Haerdtl at the University of Applied Arts. He was appointed professor at the Technical University of Vienna in 1959.1 In 1972, Karl Schwanzer designed the Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut in St. Pölten, which was a training centre and a guest house for the trade union of Lower Austria. The training centre contained several workshops and their respective storage rooms, 16 lecture rooms, a large auditorium that could hold 470 guests, as well as some offices and service rooms.2 The 54m tall guest house had a total of 240 single bed rooms and was demolished in 1999.3 The training centre is still in use today. 1 Architekturzentrum Wien (Ed.) (2016): Architektur in Österreich im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Zürich: Park Books. 420. 2 Schwanzer, Karl (1973): Architektur aus Leidenschaft: 25 Jahre Arbeit Karl Schwanzer. Wien, München: Modulverlag. 106-107. 3 WIFI-Turm: Der gefällte Riese. https://www.noen.at/niederoesterreich/kultur-festivals/stadtmuseum-st-poelten-wifi-turm-der- gefaellte-riese-wifi-stadtmuseum-st-poelten-99283050. 14.8.2018.