Architecture

Heinrich von Ferstel

  • Café Central
    Site: ground floor, Palais Ferstel, Herrengasse
    Notes: favorite watering hole of turn of the century literati [Blue Guide, p. 53-54]
  • Hofburg
    Burgkapelle (15th c.)
    Renaissance additions (Stallburg, Amalienburg)
    Schweizerhof (Baroque wing added in 1558)
    Portions by Fischer von Erlach (including Hofbibliothek, Prunksaal, Old Reading Room)
    19th c. addition (finished 1893)
    Neue Hofburg, southern rim
    http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/dw827.html
  • University (exterior, interior arcaded courtyard; interior ptg by Franz Matsch)
    Date: 1884
    Architect: Heinrich Ferstel
    Style: Neo-Renaissance