The dome crowning this building is the visual marker that lets you pick it out from the streets of the Innere Stadt. Rising above the confluence of the Wien River and the Donaukanal, this structure serves as a civic lighthouse of sorts,…
Vienna Ringstrasse Architecture
This walk highlights the monumental 19th-century architecture of Vienna's famous Ringstrasse boulevard.
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1. Imaging | Urania
2. Österreichische Postsparkasse
The Österreichische Postsparkasse is a landmark of early modern architecture, recognizable by a facade covered in square white marble slabs fastened with visible aluminum-capped iron rivets. Designed by architect Otto Wagner and built…
3. Museum of Applied Arts
The Museum of Applied Arts, known locally as the MAK, is housed in a grand red-brick building constructed in the Italian Early Renaissance style. Completed in eighteen seventy-one, it holds the distinction of being the first museum…
4. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is defined by its octagonal dome, which rises above a palatial Renaissance-style building on the Ringstrasse. Commissioned by Emperor Franz Joseph the First and opened to the public in eighteen ninety-one, this…
5. Austrian Parliament
The Austrian Parliament Building on the Ringstrasse is immediately recognizable by its deliberate resemblance to an ancient Greek temple, complete with a forest of columns and a wide, rising ramp. Completed in eighteen eighty-three, it was…
6. University of Vienna
The University of Vienna's main building is recognizable by its grand Neo-Renaissance facade stretching along the Ringstraße, marked by symmetrical stonework and a series of pavilions designed to represent the university's four classical…
7. Votive Church
The Votive Church is defined by its two openwork spires that rise ninety-nine meters above the Ringstraße. This neo-Gothic basilica exists because of a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph the First in eighteen fifty-three.…