The new 25hours Hotel, located near Vienna’s Museums Quarter, is by no means just a pretentious structure offering accommodation for a well-heeled foreign clientele. Since opening its doors in early 2013, this centrally located hotel has become a popular spot for all—especially for the locals, who appreciate the pizzeria, the Viennese “Schanigarten” with a special burger grill, and a cool rooftop café with a terrace. The Viennese architecture firm BWM Architekten converted the former student residence in Vienna’s 7th District into a laid-back hotel in several stages for 25hours Hotel Company. Although this six-floor building, with its uncompromising functionalist design, was constructed as a student residence in 1969, it was initially used as office space by UNIDO until the organization was able to move into the newly built UNO City in Vienna’s 22nd District. In 2009, the new operational concept was born and a modern glass cube designed to rest on top of the rationalist building. This roof structure, which draws upon the original building’s compact architecture and modifies it for today’s sensibilities, was opened in 2011. It provides enough room, not only for 35 individually designed apartments on three floors, but also for a café-bar with a terrace with ...
The new 25hours Hotel, located near Vienna’s Museums Quarter, is by no means just a pretentious structure offering accommodation for a well-heeled foreign clientele. Since opening its doors in early 2013, this centrally located hotel has become a popular spot for all—especially for the locals, who appreciate the pizzeria, the Viennese “Schanigarten” with a special burger grill, and a cool rooftop café with a terrace. The Viennese architecture firm BWM Architekten converted the former student residence in Vienna’s 7th District into a laid-back hotel in several stages for 25hours Hotel Company. Although this six-floor building, with its uncompromising functionalist design, was constructed as a student residence in 1969, it was initially used as office space by UNIDO until the organization was able to move into the newly built UNO City in Vienna’s 22nd District. In 2009, the new operational concept was born and a modern glass cube designed to rest on top of the rationalist building. This roof structure, which draws upon the original building’s compact architecture and modifies it for today’s sensibilities, was opened in 2011. It provides enough room, not only for 35 individually designed apartments on three floors, but also for a café-bar with a terrace with ...