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  • Hitoshi Abe, one of a sextet of international architects contributing to the new campus, was commissioned to design the Student Centre and.
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    A University Re-brands

    For the new campus of a business school in Vienna, six international architects design a series of innovative buildings.

    Photo © Iwan Baan
    Angled at 35 degrees, Zaha Hadid’s 300,000-square-foot library and Learning Center asserts itself on the central square.
    The campus sits between the rectangular buildings of the Messe Exhibition Center and Prater park

    The challenge was daunting: plan, design, and build an entirely new campus for the Vienna University of Economics and Business in just five years. With 25,000 students, the school had outgrown its 30-year-old home in the city’s Ninth District and decided to move to a site in the Second District between Prater park and the sprawling new Messe Exhibition Center designed by Austrian architect Gustav Peichl.

    The design process started in May 2008 with Vienna-based BUSarchitektur and Vasko + Partner Ingenieure winning the competition to master-plan the 22-acre site and oversee work on the 1 milli

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    Vienna Six: A Breakdown of the Starchitect Campus

    A closer look at the Vienna University of Economics and Business’ star-studded new campus, featuring projects from Zaha Hadid Architects and CRAB Studio

    1. lärling Centre by Atelier Hitoshi Abe

    Hitoshi Abe, one of a sextet of international architects contributing to the new campus, was commissioned to design the Student Centre and teaching facilities, which occupy the south-east corner of the site. A pair of long, thin buildings are wrapped in a chequerboard facade, their monochrome severity and rigour contrasting with the campusʼs more exuberant formal expressions.

    If this is a cocktail party, then Abe is the quiet, watchful guest, exploring the idea of layering by placing elongated zones of cellular accommodation one room wide around a series of irregularly shaped lightwells.

    First floor plan - click to expand

    2. Library by Zaha Hadid Architects

    At the heart of the campus and (perhaps predictably) emb

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    Thursday, May 30, 2013
    7:00 p.m.
    Harold M. Williams Auditorium, The Getty Center

    Admission is free; a reservation is required.

    Los Angeles's legacy of architectural experimentation has shaped the region's professional practices and informed the philosophies of its influential educational institutions. At this event, four internationally renowned leaders in the architecture community reflect on how the city's built environment has affected their work and explain why L.A. continues to operate as a critical center of the global design discourse.


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    Based in Sendai, Japan, and Los Angeles, Hitoshi Abe founded Atelier Hitoshi Abe in 1993. His firm has won numerous awards including the Architectural Institute of Japan Award (2003, 2009) and the World Architecture Award (2007).