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Tovatt Architects and Planner, in collaboration with N+Objektmanagement (Germany) win international competition for the design of a new district of Vienna.
Swedish-based international architectural practice, Tovatt Architects & Planners, has been selected by the City of Vienna as the winner of a major international negotiated tender/Competition to design an urban masterplan to allow the regeneration of a 250 hectare disused airport site in the north-eastern outskirts of Vienna, Austria. Tovatt’s win reflects the practice’s extensive international masterplanning experience. Formerly named Erskine Tovatt, the practice was founded by iconic architect, the late Ralph Erskine, who with his partners, Johannes Tovatt and Geoff Denton, was responsible for the design of Greenwich Millennium Village. |
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The Asper airfield site is regarded as one of the most important redevelopment schemes in Vienna and is expected to become a new focal point and traffic interchange for the region. The proposed masterplan is truly mixed use, including residential, commercial, cultural and educational elements. It will contain approximately 7,000 residential homes, a university, a research campus, offices and retail. The proposed scheme is expected to accommodate a daily population of 45,000 people living and working in the new environment. The redevelopment of the area is expected to commence in three to four years’ time. The construction and implementation stage will span several decades.
Tovatt Architects & Planners has proposed a relatively dense and urban development for the area, a structure built up of large-scale civic gestures coupled with small and spontaneous spatial surprises. A central park at the focal point of the plan connects and links smaller squares and public open spaces into a meandering net providing a safe and clear way of movements. The northern edge of the development contains a complex interchange of public transport; a regional node integrating fast train, underground, trams and buses.
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