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Opernpassage Panorama
The Opernpassage (Opera passage) in the Innere Stadt, Inner City of Vienna is a Grade II listed Subway (underpass), pedestrian underpass under the Vienna Ring Road, ring road (Ringstraße). It was opened in 1955, a day before the re-opening of the nearby Vienna State Opera. Designed by architect Adolf Hoch it has been a symbol of a modern spirit in architecture and urban planning. In the wake of the construction of the Karlsplatz station (Vienna U-Bahn), Karlsplatz station of the Vienna U-Bahn the Opernpassage was added to a network of underpasses spanning from the Secession Building to the eponymous Karlsplatz. After more than 50 years the City of Vienna undertook a complete restoration of the structure, advised by the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments in Austria. The passage was reopened on 17 September 2013, showing the original design of the round columns, the curved glass of the shop windows, and the chequerboard pattern of the floor. The artwork Pi (art project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Lum
Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA (; born 1956) holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States. He is an artist, an academic, and a curator. Lum's artistic practice spans multiple media including painting, sculpture and photography. His playfully politically oriented works, which range from conceptual to representational, often explore themes of identity linked to language, portraiture, and spatial politics. Since 2012, Lum has taught as a Professor of Fine Art in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Early life Lum was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1956 and grew up in Strathcona, Vancouver and Kensington-Cedar Cottage in East Vancouver. He attended Admiral Seymour Elementary, Lord Selkirk Elementary and Gladstone Secondary School. Career Lum received an MFA from University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1985. One of his earliest major projects was his Portrait-Logo series from the mid-1980s, in which he paired po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna Künstlerhaus
The Künstlerhaus in Vienna's 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz. The building was erected between 1865 and 1868 and has served as an exhibition space and an event venue ever since. In 2015, shares were split between two proprietors, with the Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung as the majority shareholder and the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung'','' Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, the oldest existing artists' association in Austria, as the minority shareholder. In 1949 a cinema moved into the western wing of the building. As of 2013, this cinema is operated as ''Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus'' and is one of the screening venues for the annual Viennale film festival. Additionally, a theatre was established in the eastern wing in 1974, which was last operated by the ''brut'' until 2017. Between autumn 2016 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wien (river)
The Wien is a river that flows through the capital of Austria, Vienna. Geography The river Wien is long, of which are within the city. Its drainage basin covers an area of , both in the city and in the neighbouring Vienna Woods. Its source lies in the western Vienna Woods near Rekawinkel and its mouth at the eastern end of the city centre of Vienna, next to the Urania, where it flows into the Donaukanal ("Danube Canal"), a branch of the Danube. The Wien is subject to huge variations in flow. In its headwaters in the Vienna Woods, the soil is underlain by sandstone. Because of this, during heavy rain the soil quickly saturates, resulting in substantial runoff. Thus, the flow of the Wien can quickly increase from a creek-like to in the heaviest rains or during the spring snowmelt in the Vienna Woods, a ratio of over 1:2000. The Wien River and the city of Vienna Within the city limits, the river bed consists almost entirely of concrete, which was installed between 1895 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U4 (Vienna U-Bahn)
Line U4 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro Metro may refer to: Geography * Metro City (Indonesia), a city in Indonesia * A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center Public transport * Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high ... system. Opened in 1976, it currently has 20 stations and a total length of , from to . It is connected to at and , at , at , at and . Stations Line U4 currently serves the following stations: * (transfer to: - park & ride facility) * * * * * * * (transfer to: ) * * * * (transfer to: ) * * (transfer to: ) * (transfer to: ) * (transfer to: ) * * * (transfer to: - park & ride facility) * (transfer to: ) References External links * {{Metro lines in Vienna U4 Railway lines opened in 1976 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U2 (Vienna U-Bahn)
[ , ] Line U2 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn rapid transit, metro system. Opened in 1980, it currently has 20 stations and a total length of , from to . It is connected to , U3 (Vienna U-Bahn), U3, and U4 (Vienna U-Bahn), U4. Stations Line U2 serves the following stations: * (transfer to: ) * * (transfer to: ) * * * (transfer to: ) * * (transfer to: ) * * * * * ( park & ride facility) * (transfer to: ) * * * * * * (transfer to: ) * History Construction (1963–1980) The construction of the tunnel, which was later the centrepiece of the U2, was started in 1963. After the tunnel was completed in 1966 with a length of 1.8 kilometres, it ran from Vienna Secession to Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz. Soon after, the modern construction of Vienna's railway was built on the 3 November 1969. This consisted of the newly built U1 line, and two merged lines from a tram and old metro, of the line U2 and U4 respectively. As the result of a more streamlined network, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U1 (Vienna U-Bahn)
Line U1 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro system. Opened in 1978, it currently has 24 stations and a total length of , from to . When the extension to Oberlaa was completed in 2017, the line became the longest on the network, surpassing the length of . The line is connected to at and , at , at Karlsplatz and . Stations Line U1 currently serves the following stations: * ( park & ride facility) * ( park & ride facility) * * * * * * (transfer to: ) * * (transfer to: ) * (transfer to: ) * (transfer to: ) * * (transfer to: ) * * * * * * * * ( park & ride facility) * * (transfer to: - park & ride facility) History Construction (1969-1982) The construction of Vienna's modern urban railway network started on 3 November 1969. This consisted of the newly built U1 line, and two merged lines from a tram and old metro, of the line U2 and U4 respectively. As the result of a more streamlined network, there were new routes between U1, U2 and U4. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pi (art Project)
''Pi'' is the name of a multimedia installation in the vicinity of the Viennese Karlsplatz. ''Pi'' is located in the Opernpassage between the entrance to the subway and the subway stop in Secession near the Naschmarkt. The individual behind the project was the Canadian artist Ken Lum from Vancouver. ''Pi'', under construction from January 2005 to November 2006 and opened in December 2006, consists of statistical information and a representation of π to 478 decimal places. A more recent project is the calculation of the decimal places of π, indicating the importance of the eponymous media for installation of their number and infinity. The exhibit is 130 meters long. In addition to the number pi, there is a total of 16 ''factoids'' of reflective display cases that convey a variety of statistical data in real time. Apart from the World population there are also topics such as the worldwide number of malnourished children and the growth of Sahara since the beginning of the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
